Banks

Saturday we went to the bank to put my wife’s name on the account. Can’t be too complicated can it? Can’t take more than a few minutes can it? BZZZTTTTT – WRONG!! The bank say that a passport, marriage certificate and payslips (with the same address on as me) are not acceptable as proof that […]

Hackers, crackers and other annoyances

My server was getting swamped the other day, checking into it I found that it was links from LiveJournal to a pic in my photo albums which someone had used to illustrate a tack poem. Livejournal users had then copied this poem round each other, and republished it – and every view was leeching the […]

Health Service?? Where does the Service come into it?

Saw the doctor the other week about a medical condition and he said he’d contact the hospital. Letter arrived on Friday – I need to phone the hospital to make an appointment. Wife phoned the number before 5pm – no reply. I have been trying almost continually for the past 3 hours to get through […]