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"Mooving, mooving, mooving, keep those dogies moving".......and if you remember that you are older than most care to admit! With apologies to the late Frankie Laine !
In a word Rowena.............CRIVENS !
Mind you, it's all a load of "Bull"!
Reply #1901. Nov 17 10, 9:59 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Lesley, some of his portraits are nice enough. I'm not here to defend his particular cow, by the way. I just appreciate his singularity of vision.
Lesley does run a fine blog and allows us to play at will. She's not bossy at all.
I'll bow out now. I, for one, have milked the bovine subject for all it's worth.
Reply #1902. Nov 17 10, 10:17 AM
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| lesley153
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Old? I can sing the tune and can even remember some of the words.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2fONPgIJE
It must be old because the whole cast is listed in the end credits, instead of the stars and guests at the beginning, and the characters nobody cares about left till the end.
The more people play, the better. Bossy? me? Nevah! |
Reply #1904. Nov 17 10, 11:12 AM
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| lesley153
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Rowena, thank you - it's a gem!
Is there one for the chickens? |
Reply #1905. Nov 17 10, 11:18 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Is the term "bossy" for a cow not used in the UK?
Reply #1906. Nov 17 10, 11:29 AM
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| lesley153
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No, it isn't! Except in combination: bossy cow. By itself, it just means that you like ordering other people around. Or in heraldry, a shield with a sticky-outy bit.
Sorry cultural differences spoilt the double entendre. :( |
Reply #1907. Nov 17 10, 11:35 AM
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| lesley153
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| Must be. ;) Good find, Gary. |
Reply #1909. Nov 17 10, 2:10 PM
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| lesley153
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| Did my last of eight sessions of cardiac rehab yesterday. I can carry on the exercise sessions locally - an hour a week, half a mile from home, for very little money. I have a dental appointment on Wednesday and my MOT is due now. Sometimes I wonder how I stand the excitement. |
Reply #1910. Nov 19 10, 7:59 AM
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| Lochalsh
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It sounds as though you need to bring RDJ back into your life. :)
Reply #1911. Nov 19 10, 8:15 AM
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| Lochalsh
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(P.S.: Some of us don't know what MOT stands for. Should we?)
Reply #1912. Nov 19 10, 8:16 AM
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| lesley153
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The MOT, properly named the Ministry of Transport test, is a yearly test on cars more than (I think) three years old, for roadworthiness, and for emissions being within acceptable parameters. The Ministry has now been renamed Department, but nobody has called the test the DOT.
That's as much as I can take for now. I think the reappearance of RDJ would finish me off! (That is R. Downey Jnr, I assume?) |
Reply #1913. Nov 19 10, 9:26 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Oui, c'est lui.
Reply #1914. Nov 19 10, 9:40 AM
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Rowena8482 
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I am now singing Rock DJ lol, since I am much more of a Robbie fan than a Robert fan...
Reply #1915. Nov 19 10, 12:43 PM
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| lesley153
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Rowena, I've never heard you sing. I want to hear you sing!
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My car is now insured with the AA, at about a third of the premium I was paying their predecessors. They emailed me a few weeks ago, to tell me that they are now doing repairs, service and MOT, 15% off for AA members, and that they will collect and deliver your car at no extra charge. How can I resist?
So I called them, listened to the outgoing message telling me that my giving personal data amounted to implied consent to my getting information about new products (etc), from them or their holding company, by mail, email, phone and SMS, calls may be recorded blah blah *yawn* and pressed 1 to book an MOT. Nice man answered the phone, chatty, professional, friendly, knowledgeable. I'd like to book an MOT. Do I want a service? Not right now, thank you, just the MOT. What's my postcode? Yes, we have at least one AA-approved MOT centre in Bedford. And he talked me through the procedures. The car is collected between 9 and 11am and taken straight to an MOT test station. If it passes, it'll be brought back the same day. If it needs work done to pass, an AA inspector will visit, satisfy himself that the work is necessary and that the price is fair, and then contact you for authorisation to go ahead.
And now for personal details before he tells the bookings department, who will call me back with a date... Membership number... name... address... phone number(s)... what size engine? Four litres.
*screech of brakes*
"Sorry, that's too big. We don't offer these services on anything bigger than three litres."
Huh? Where does it say that? Not on the email I got.
"I think it's in the small print. Terms and conditions or something."
That's not good enough. Mine is not the only four-litre car left in the world. They hook us in with the large print of the email, and don't tell us something as important as maximum engine size. The call had been a waste of my time, his time, and AA resources, and would he please register my displeasure.
Later, I rang back to ask if he could be identified, because his name had been part of the blur when he answered the phone. No, there are hundreds of people in six call centres.
"What's his name?"
I don't know. That's why I rang. I'm hoping you'll tell me that.
Pause while second man checks my personal records, and finds that the first man didn't log the call. Interesting. I wonder if he bothered logging the complaint?
I had a close look at the email, and couldn't find a mention of maximum engine size anywhere. I've now emailed AA customer care, first to tell them about the fruitless phone call: and secondly to ask them why, as they insure and therefore know about my car, why they sent me an email offering services I couldn't have. I have also said that I don't mind emails but don't want post, phone calls or
texts. Let us not hold our breath for a reply.
And then I rang the man who has been looking after my car for the last few years. No outgoing message I am forced to listen to every time: no "listen carefully to the following nine options." Just ring ring: "Hallo Lesley, how are you? Thursday? That's perfect for me. We'll pick it up about half past nine."
There's a moral in there somewhere.
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Reply #1916. Nov 19 10, 2:02 PM
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honeybee4
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Lesley, I hope you weren't scammed out of any important information that could be used to take your money.
Reply #1917. Nov 19 10, 3:31 PM
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Rowena8482
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You really really don't want to hear me sing lol - I can't carry a tune in a bucket! (This is why I never passed any Grade exams in music, I couldn't do the aural bits, and why I had to give up the cello after 6 years, my ear is basically non existent. I'm just shy of totally tone deaf)
Reply #1918. Nov 19 10, 4:43 PM
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| lesley153
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No, Judy, no more information than they already have to take my monthly premium off me. The only thing they stole today was my time. They really need to do something about that, because they could waste a lot of people-time and phone-time, doing the whole spiel for something they can't deliver.
Rowena, I remember you saying about the cello. But we sing when we're happy, right? So sing to me then please. As long as you sound happy while you're doing it, it's good. |
Reply #1919. Nov 19 10, 5:13 PM
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| callie_ross
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LESLEY! How are you doing? I hope all is well with you! I would wish you a Happy Thanksgiving but I doubt if you celebrate it where you live! Just in case there's a slight chance that you do, have a good one! :)
Reply #1920. Nov 19 10, 5:17 PM
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