| lesley153
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And I'm with you four times! I hadn't really thought about it but now you mention it - why?
Latest news from the world of online shopping. Yesterday's shopping came at about ten o'clock in the evening. You can pay £5 or £6 delivery at popular times, and Sunday, but it's cheaper mid- or late evening. So I book for ten-ish and almost always get a call at least an hour beforehand: "I'm early - is it OK if I come now?" Oh yes.
I'd ordered a little tub of chocolately things as a treat... I hadn't tried these before, but they were on offer, which helped. The security on this tub was a strip of plastic round it, the sort that has a little tab bearing the legend "press" or "break fingernails here" to open. Except this didn't have the tab.
Good thing their helpline doesn't close till eleven. At five to eleven, I rang, described the product, and asked if it was supposed to have a security tab, because this one has just got a gap.
The woman on the phone was very pleasant and friendly, which was a nice surprise considering it was five minutes before the line closes. Yes, she said, it should have a tab. She said she'd refund the cost of the tub and, as a gesture of goodwill, refund my £2 delivery charge.
I don't know what happened and I'm sure they won't either. It could have been someone in the stockroom sampling the goods, but I don't think that's very likely, because the odds are they'd be seen and it would be more than their job was worth.
More likely, I suspect, is that they were bought and returned, and someone threw them back into stock without checking the packaging. This doesn't do much for my faith in the system.
I think the gods of junk food are trying to tell me something.
I also think the company's got away pretty cheaply. I wrote to them again at eleven o'clock this morning when I was a bit more compos mentis than when I'd [honed. Watch this space for the answer I won't get. |
Reply #4801. May 31 12, 3:42 PM
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| lesley153
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Apparently every return generates a report which is thoroughly investigated. We hope you will continue shopping with us.
Yes, for the time being, but with more vigilance and less confidence. |
Reply #4802. Jun 01 12, 7:14 AM
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| lesley153
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Sorry about your unwanted visitor. Go away Arthur!
I think the service is a godsend. Reading the reviews helps, and then you just have to be as vigilant as you would be in a real shop. For instance, you wouldn't buy something with a broken or absent security tab. Having got one, I wasn't going to accept it and certainly wasn't going to eat any of them. Who knows how it's been stored, whose sweaty hairy unwashed hands have been digging in it - or even how many they've eaten! Ugh!
The singer's not bad but I have always hated that song. It's a trite dirge and I have no idea how it became a standard - perhaps enough people thought it contained Deep Wisdom, like Lennon's Imagine. IMHO! |
Reply #4804. Jun 02 12, 5:59 AM
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| lesley153
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Merv popped in last night. He's off to some Greek island in a few days, and I believe that he is going to meet a person of the female persuasion. I offered him a cup of coffee, and he said "Yeah, all right." *sigh* Nothing changes. Still Mr Etiquette.
Paid off the mortgage last week. Nice to get one more nuisance out of the way! |
Reply #4805. Jun 02 12, 7:47 AM
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Professer 
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OMG Merv on hols with a female! hopefully you are now safe, was not the song o posted it for Lelsey was so you can see what the rat pack show is like. I think all three are good entertainers cannot find one of the Sammy davis guy doing bo jangles but seen it on my dvd and that is very good.
Reply #4806. Jun 02 12, 9:11 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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WoW Lesley! That's quite the milestone! This month, I will pay off my car. Also a milestone. Congrats to us! :)
Reply #4807. Jun 02 12, 11:29 AM
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| lesley153
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Well not exactly *with*: she's already gone out there, and he's going out to meet her. Women are fine, and the more, the merrier, but relationships are something else.
Thanks, and I know how much you enjoy them. Till the tribute thread pops up, perhaps this'll do.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMcfUjIguSs
Here's an earlier performance. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yes7zGJyesY
VM, it's pretty big milestones - well done us! |
Reply #4808. Jun 02 12, 12:31 PM
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Professer
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Thanks Lesley like then
Reply #4809. Jun 02 12, 1:26 PM
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bloodandsand
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Congratulations on the final mortgage payment, Lesley! Five more years for me then the heap of stone is finally mine :)
Saying that, I haven't checked my lottery ticket.....
Reply #4810. Jun 02 12, 3:59 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, Bev, feels good - just one degree lighter.
Next step is to find a bit of money for a car, before winter starts. Last week was summer, so not long to wait. Now Jonathan's too big to send up chimneys, I shall have to resort to selling a kidney.
I've tried, but the people I've asked if they want to buy a kidney have all said the same thing:
"No thanks, got nowhere to put it.! |
Reply #4811. Jun 02 12, 6:59 PM
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Jakeroo
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My niece has three kidneys. And two appendixes (appendices??). And her internal organs are all backwards (meaning the ones on the left should be on the right). She didn't find out about all this (since she was never sick with anything worse than a cold) until she had ultrasounds for her first pregnancy. I'd tell her to save one of her kidneys for me since mine are dysfunctional, but unfortunately she's not actually a "blood" relative.
Reply #4812. Jun 03 12, 12:36 PM
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| lesley153
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Goodness, I've heard of three nipples and six fingers, but this is new.
Has she by any chance got a spare spleen I could have please? |
Reply #4813. Jun 03 12, 4:37 PM
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| lesley153
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| Sprog and girlfriend were here today. Much food, chat, and work done. Nice. |
Reply #4814. Jun 05 12, 6:58 PM
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| lesley153
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Unusual but pleasant day yesterday. Up at eight (aaargh) for a (routine) GP appointment at nine.
From there to the high street, and a quick visit to the bank and a shop, and then a first-ever wander into a hairdressers that's staffed entirely by closely-monitored students of the local hairdressing college.
I got a student who was about a fortnight away from qualifying, and gave me an interesting, fresh cut I'm delighted with. Shampoo, cut and blow-dry: £8, which is less than a third of the going rate.
Lunch with someone I've known for more than ten years but never talked to for more than five or ten minutes. We ate and drank and chatted for four hours. She had to catch a local office before it closed, otherwise I think we'd still be talking.
Phone call from son returning from work: phone call from an old friend who, like me, doesn't know the meaning of a quick telephone conversation; followed by a call from my cousin. My cousin used to begin every conversation by listing and describing every medical appointment he and his wife had had since our last conversation, and every one planned for the coming six months. Yesterday he regaled me with details of his private medical insurance. He also makes sure I'm always completely up to date with his mobile phone tariff.
At nine o'clock, Sandy rang the doorbell. Back to the phone to tell my cousin I have a visitor. "Just a couple of things," he said, and he told me two things he's told me before and weren't worth hearing the first time.
Good to see Sandy for the first time since her honeymoon.
At ten o'clock, I managed to have dinner.
Early night (1.30, early for me), slept like a log, up at ten. Today I can barely string a sentence together. |
Reply #4815. Jun 08 12, 7:15 AM
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Professer
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Sounds like you have had a busy time Lesley which is good, hope you have a peaceful weekend.
Reply #4816. Jun 08 12, 8:59 AM
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| lesley153
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| I did and thank you and I hope you do too! A couple of things tomorrow, and then peace and calm till Tuesday when Sandy and I are doing a charity shop run and having lunch and then I've got an Alexander lesson... Love it. :) |
Reply #4817. Jun 08 12, 10:43 AM
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Jazmee27
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Goodness – cousin sounds like a charmer.
Hope your weekend is less eventful (or more exciting) than that call
Reply #4818. Jun 08 12, 12:37 PM
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bloodandsand
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That sounds like a really good day, Lesley! Hope there are more of them - nicely spaced of course :)
Reply #4819. Jun 08 12, 2:19 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks, both! Actually, I think I was up before 9.30, which is even worse. Much more of this and I could be keeping the same hours as people in England, instead of America.
Tomorrow I've got another (routine) GP appointment at ten o'clock, and there's a soprano/piano recital in the evening, only five minutes' walk, and I'm probably going to that. Then nothing till Tuesday - O joy.
Today I cleaned a bit of my keyboard - not all of it - that would be silly. I pulled up a few keys that weren't moving and found what was stopping them - enough crap to grow mushrooms. Now they're moving and making loud clicking noises again, and the space bar doesn't work unless I hit it dead centre. Perhaps it'll be easier if I put half a packet of crisps under it. Any ideas? |
Reply #4820. Jun 08 12, 3:26 PM
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