Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

To be quite honest I don't know of any potholes around here, the roads are in fairly good condition, even the narrow mountain roads are all right to travel on.

 

I think potholes are mostly created by the service industries.
They seem to be spending more and more time closing roads and burrowing around then they never put the surface back properly, next years pot holes.

 

I am writing a lot in this thread lately, I never used to moan. I think I am becoming one of the grumpy old men !

My landline has not worked since last Thursday - no dialing tone and can't receive or make calls. Vodafone keep saying they are doing all they can to mend it but it is nearly a week now, and since I do not have a mobile I won't be able to contact anyone in an emergency.

I have just spent nearly an hour with their chat service and have been told it will be done by 17.00 hrs on 29th Sep ... and it had better be too !

A chap in Carmarthen has said he'd arrange a mobile for me in August but I am still waiting. I can't contact him because my landline is not working. He did not respond to my email. He is on the right track for a row.

Another stupid thing - while on the chat with the Vodafone person they told me if the chat got deleted somehow, they would send me a link on my mobile to reconnect with them ... but I had ALREADY told them I didn't have a mobile. So he asked me for my mobile number

I think all one can do is laugh

 

I thought he had been a member for some time time.

 

Thank you ... are there any perks

 

And don't forget the membership fee.

 

OK, no offence but I have reported the Grumpy Old Men's club for not being inclusive.

What about us Grumpy Old Women, or grumpy but-not-old, not to mention anyone who doesn't identify as being Grumpy?

I just ask!

As a matter of starting a protest movement I'm now starting a club called "Easily Pleased and Prone to Giggle When Facing Adversity"

Feel free to visit our annual picnic near Glasgow in November, or why not join our dentist appointment lottery? Our volunteers host wonderful free chats in AE waiting rooms and we have a road pothole planting up- events involving enthusiastic toddlers around dusk near to you!

Sorry, I'm getting well off topic but as I'm having some time off work I'm in a very positive mood and just like everything The rain looks lovely over the North Sea and the fact that my rent is going up a lot is OK because I'm fortunate enough to afford it and the Fishbone Cactus is making a second set of flowers...

 

'Ere! You ain't one o' they there wold libral socialites, is you?

 

I've got the coho nees to join the club. And I can fake being grumpy all the time. And I can be genuinely be grumpy when it comes to banking. I etransferred some money at noon, to myself in order to move money from one bank to another. The email advice has arrived but the bank I want to deposit it to must have been hacked or under a cyber attack because when I sign in, it flashes an error "at their end" message and says to try later. And that has been going on for hours. Money caught between the two!