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I sent off the duplicated order items yesterday and was dismayed to received yet another “despatched” email yesterday afternoon.
Surely they couldn’t be that stupid?
Of course they could - package number three arrived this morning. Well, sod it. I’m not sending that one back unless they pay the postage.
Bloody idiots.
I noticed a sign beside the road yesterday during my drive down (the A45, I think it was). It was intended as a reminder to car, van and lorry drivers coming off the dual carriageway A14 to be heedful of motorcyclists on what was about to become a single carriageway road.
In a clever stroke of genius, the letters “I” in the two word warning had been replaced with the silhouette of a motorcyclist, pitched at a slight angle to the vertical.
The problem was that the shape of the motorcyclist was slightly rounded, especially when compared to the other letters on the sign. Had the “T” “H” “N” and “K”, for example, been printed in a wide, bold typeface then the problem wouldn’t have arisen.
The problem? Oh, didn’t I say?
For the rest of the journey I was mindful to “thonk boke”. Not sure what that means, but I was thonking all the way.
Santander agrees £1.2bn A&L deal
-BBC News
Oh well. Based on the fuckwittery now prevalent within Abbey I guess that’s another financial institution to avoid like the plague then.
If you’ve got any ties with A&L I can only strongly recommend you get your money out now, while you still can. Fuck knows it’s been a nightmare dealing with Abbey in the past eighteen months and the staff (being loyal company types) blamed Santander for having messed up their systems since the takeover.
I looked at the options I was being offered.
Ate too much?
No.
Drank too much?
No.
Not enough exercise?
Possibly.
The problem I had was that nowhere was there a button which said
My cat climbed onto the balance board while I was being weighed
So, then. After last week’s clearing blitzlet (still lots left to do) there was enough space to finally set up the Wii Fit and have a go. Of course I prevaricated about this and didn’t actually get around to doing so until yesterday.
First impressions are favourable. Had a great time with the slalom skiing and especially the ski jumping but my first attempts at the tightrope walking we less than successful.
I also tried out a couple of yoga positions, the hula-hoops game and the step basic aerobics. Hell, I even went for a little “jog”. A very little job, but still.
Before I got started it did the necessary evil of the weigh-in and then, once it had depressed me, put me through a basic balance test.
The basic balance test isn’t your thing, is it? Do you often trip over while walking?
Cheeky bloody thing.
It did, at least, inspire me to have a healthy theme to my Big Shop today and I avoid all those lovely, fattening chocolately or fatty treats, replacing them with fruit and yoghurt. Mmmmm. Lovely. And that was before the program told me I’d lost a doubtful 4lbs between yesterday and today.
Let’s see how long this lasts, shall we?
I must say that circuses have certainly changed since my childhood (unless I’ve forgotten the pot-bellied pig acts … and the giraffes and llamas, now that I think about it).
This popped up in the RSS feed from Reuters:
“Brothel bus” makes last stop in Miami Beach
MIAMI (Reuters) - A “brothel bus” that detectives said cruised Miami Beach offering lap dances and drinks has taken its last ride, police said on Wednesday. (more)
The bit that amused me, though, was one of the charges:
Suspected operator Christine Morteh, 29, was arrested on charges of offering to commit prostitution, transportation for the purpose of prostitution and operating a business without a license.
I’m just wondering about the licence application process.
When I got to the Arts Centre this morning for the last of my “Image Manipulation with Photoshop” lessons I noticed that there was an elephant standing outside it. This isn’t the sort of thing one misses, y’know. Not even at the ungodly hour of 10am.
Examining the beast further - it seemed benevolent enough - I discovered that this is Elephant #26 of a herd which have taken up residence in Norwhag for the next six weeks or so.
Being quick on the uptake I deduced that there must be at least 25 more and decided to investigate further on my return home. It seems I had the correct digits but in the wrong order as there are, in fact, 53 elephants in all according to the GoElephants.co.uk website.
My mission, then, will be to get one of the brochure/maps and then see if I can visit and photograph all 53 elephants in one day. All the locations seem to be fairly central but I’m not sure how I’ll get on photographing those which seem to be indoors. Should be fun, though.