You need the Technical Support Thread.
Then everyone can shake their head and say.
Hmmm
Gonna be expensive that
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Different devices with Android updates.
Knocked out loads of passwords
Which then need to be reset.
Including a bunch on a Smart TV
Signalling failure at Surbiton. We got on the 10.05 at Waterloo, but 30 mons later we were turfed off and stood/sat around till 00.30 and we’ve now set off, but are stuck at Surbiton currently 01.10. Tried to get a taxi, but no fucking fuel saw to that.
YoungAdult#1 got an Uber.
Surbiton is fairly local to us tbf
She didn’t go to the footie so was doubly blessed.
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Virgin - bastards
They have cancelled my flight - which is a good thing because I cannot get into the US until November. However the utter spunk bubbles have not refunded my money, just moved my booking to the following day meaning I have to ring their sodding call centre
97 minutes so far on hold listening to a 15 minute hold music loop - I now despise each and every one of those songs
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When you get on the phone to someone, ask them “how can you call yourself Virgin when everything’s fucked?”.
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They were surprising accommodating once I got through
Points and cash refunded
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For those agog to follow the progress of my technological woes, the BT box seems to have spontaneously recovered, but I think it’s just lulling me into a false sense of security.
And, glory be, after the Deezer user forum became swamped with users with the same problem as me, Deezer have finally admitted “it’s a problem we’re aware of and we’re working to resolve it”
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Deezer good, deezer good, eben deezer good!!
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Deezer, you teaser!
I’ll give Deezer credit for customer service. Detailed email explaining the problem which is an expired third party Security Certificate used by Bose, so Bose devices can’t verify incoming Deezer packages so blocks them.
For the second time in as many weeks, I went to Checkatrade to get a plumber (no response at all following the first time).
This time I got call within seconds of the message being posted by Checkatrade, and blokey says he’ll come round Monday after lunch.
No sign of blokey, no phone call, nothing. Fuck him and fuck Checkatrade - there is no point having a huge database of tradesmen who then don’t step up to the mark when called on.
Last time I will use Checkatrade as their contacts are just not interested in small plumbing jobs, even if they say they are.
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I tried to get a roofer on checkatrade to come and repoint a chimney stack and remove some moss. 3 came round an only one went up on the bloody roof. All were chancers & gave wildly different quotes and the only one you’d have marginal confidence in didn’t bother responding to phone calls and emails.
We use https://nextdoor.co.uk/ these days and get local referrals - also have shifted a load of tat I would have had to take to the dump.
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The human remains dept at work asking you to condense the ups and downs in your life before an interview.
My life comes down to 12 lines.
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- Lost out on a Road Trip tour to & around Bolgna next week. Competitor must be sleeping in his Van.
- Spent 3days working with a partner to go to a client and be English for a week. Ie Communications in English trading
- Conf calls on saving the planet from Toxic Waste. Now have to write a proposal.
- Sent out heads of agreement traffic workers around the EU legally.
Ffs I’m on bloody furlough. I have TV to binge
Gas and Leccy prices!
Our “”deal” runs out next month - no real “deals” available on comparison sites.
Looking like we’re having to take a “deal” from British Gas which is guaranteed for a year but is above the current cap - which I believe is only valid for a few more months.
Being cautious we’re going with British Gas. An extra £40 a month (tbf there’s a lot of space to heat).
Mrs C_S will still have the heating on high, an open fire blazing and I’ll spend the winter in shorts and T-shirt opening all the windows and doors 
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Oh and let me drop this into the mix
Do share widely
It’s all our own fault.
Bazza kept warning us about Putin.
Now he’s won WW3 has EU on their knees.
Suck it up.
(Hence my sudden desire to get off my ass and create new income streams!)
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Am sure Mrs P_F is wondering why it took so long 
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