Catching The Rain

Anti-junk mail postie loses round – revenge

I read with dismay the story Anti-junk mail postie loses round on the BBC news site.

But my devious mind immediately turned to thoughts of how to let the post office know just how annoying junk (e)mail can be, and to my surprise very quickly found a direct email address in the very appropriate ‘Corporate & Social Responsibility’ area of their site.

So, if you want to join my little campaign, visit the BBC News site article linked above, and use the ‘email to a friend’ link on the page and send it to CSR@royalmail.com – do you think they might get the hint? I doubt it.

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Polite Robber Jailed

At least where I live the robbers are polite, even if the Estate Agents aren’t!

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Estate agents are liars

Recent experience in my comprehensive survey of Ealing’s estate agents provided conclusive proof, if any were needed, that all estate agents are liars. OK, so it was just one call, from the one that’s about third on the list of the Google search link above (extra clue – the first name is close to that of a brand of jam). But it’s not the first time I’ve had a run in with them.

Me: hello

Them: Oh, hello, I was just wondering if we could do a viewing on your house tomorrow at about 6.30pm

Me (Checks with better half): yeap, that should be OK

Them: Will you be in?

Me (smells a rat): errr, yes, should be

Them: hmmmm, we were just wondering if, errr, if, if it would be OK for you to show them round?

Me: I thought you made a special point in your advertising that you always accompany viewings?

Them: errr, we do, usually….

Me: So you always accompany people on viewings except when you don’t?

Them: I guess so

After making some snide comment about taking my commission I hung up, but of course I’ll be the model of professionalism when the prospective tennants come round tomorrow, unlike some.

In the traditions of every good rant there’s probably no more benefit to writing all that than to get it off my chest, but that’s it, done.

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London Pride

I don’t drink that much, but I do like to go out for a few pints a couple of times a week. It certainly helps having a great local in the form of The Fox in Old Hanwell just down the road. My ‘regular’ is Timothy Taylor’s Landlord, but it wasn’t on last night. That brings me to my rant. Fuller’s London Pride is a nice enough beer, if not quite to my taste, and you can pretty much rely on The Fox serving you a pint in good condition. But why does it always make you feel cr@p the following day? And I’m not talking hangover, I only had two pints. It’s not just me as other people have said the same to me, even though others will say they won’t drink anything else. What has it got in it that other beers don’t?

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Put your boiler in safe hands

Nope, nothing to do with ‘taking care’ of your spouse, or even a jealous ex-girlfriend, but the title of an email I got yesterday from British Gas or, more specifically, from house-287147-293549@house.mx0.net.

In it they tell me:

“For just £12 a month*, HomeCare 100 provides an expert maintenance and repair service for your boiler and controls. You get full access to our round-the-clock customer helpline. You also get access to 5,500 CORGI registered engineers, plus a yearly Safety and Maintenance Inspection†.“

I wonder if these are the same registered engineers featured the day before on the BBC News site?

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Other people’s rants….

Second only to having a good rant yourself, reading other people’s rants is always uplifting.

The trials a tribulations of Disgruntled commuter provide just such a cathartic experience.

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