Man from EON he speak with forked tongue

After my phone call to Eon yesterday I received an automated email saying my statement was ready.  I had actually read the meter and provided these readings via their website which I was going to do anyway.

I opened the PDF and found that "We would like to increase your Direct Debit to £86", not the £76 I had expected. At first I thought this was because the PDF was automatically generated.  However it had on it the fact that I was on the new tariff.

Today I phoned EON to check on this but I spoke to a particularly obnoxious little git so I asked for the matter to be treated as a complaint. Yet again (I've blogged this before) the call centre person (and in the UK too!) could not believe a customer wanted to insist and have something checked; did I not believe that he had his eye on the company crystal ball and knew everything?  Not a word of "Sorry for the confusion" but, instead, "Gavin (who I spoke to yesterday) is not at this call center" as if to say that I ought to realise that EON have more than one call centre.

Little turd - I am very cross about this as you can tell and I feel a letter coming on. Well Graham Bartlett, I hope you are bracing yourself.

iPhones

I have no idea about iPhones except that they annoy me.

I have spent ages planning timetables for visiting music staff and I have emailed out PDFs.  One member of staff is not happy but it seems the point of an iPhone is to be able to use Twitter.  I assume this because her messages are as brief as Tweets and I feel as if I am growing feathers.

To do my job properly I need information; I do not need a 'comment', tweet, soundbite or what have you.

Is it not possible to send long e-mails on iPhones?  I guess it is quite hard to view a document designed on a 15inch screen for printing out on A4 paper. Do these people not have a computer at home? Must they do everything on the hoof?

I am frustrated.

Energy

Energy prices are soaring!

I have spent the morning entering the costs of various plans into a spreadsheet to see which works out best (if you'd like a copy of the Excel file send me an email - see About me).

So it's onto E.ON Save Online9 for us at a cost of some £70-£80 quid a month.

Where are those candles?

 

My To do list (2)

Based on the previous post, this stands as follows:

• Rebuild the garden wall - nearly done after 5 full days [not consecutive] on the patio and wall combined
• Grade 3 clarinet practice - going steadily.
• Grade 8 piano practice - going steadily.
• Plan lessons and cover until  half term. DONE!
• Peripatetic teacher timetables DONE!
• Plan the carol service DONE!
• Sort out the band for the school play - In hand (sort of, sort of!)
• Do a little bit of family history which I have not touched this holiday. - Not attempted
• Revise the plans for carpentry at school - Not attempted
• Get the car serviced - Not attempted
• Finish reading Steve's book which he emailed me - I'm still only 1/8 of the way in.
• Continue my series of Youtube videos on music theory. Not attempted

I cannot decide

I have been watching Sally Morgan on television; or Psychic Sally as she is known.  There are a couple of people on the other side from whom I might like a message but such communication is frowned upon in the church. She books up fast and there are not many places I can easily get to.  There is another medium coming to Kettering and I have a mate who will go with me but should I go or not?  I realise it is all hocus pocus - very clever hocus pocus - but on the other hand there could be something in it.

Today I have been working on the patio wall. Whenever I do DIY I feel close to my late father and chat to him, more by way of anticipating him saying what a stupid ass I am when I make a mistake; I like to get in first!  I was using his tools (and I can tell you that a lump hammer gives you a good workout)  and I had to clean up some old bricks then chop a few in half before I was ready to start cementing.

I knew I need a line to stretch across the courses, having found the level.  I could picture Dad's line [which I don't have] and I knew I had uncle Stanley's wind up one.  Blowed if I could find it. Had I disposed of it?

I felt the urge to have another look in the large tool box; there it was.

Now I have a history of using cement and my uncle was the one who advised me to soak the bricks in water first so they do not absorb too much water from the cement.  Today I just felt Dad and my uncle were watching me work and I had a good laugh with them when things did not go according to plan.  I also made sure I washed Dad's tools after work - just in case!

Plural

I happened to go here.

I just wonder what the country is coming to when I see -

Seen on the link above

To me 'cannon' is already plural but - upon research - I find I am no longer correct.

EDIT

I rest my case:

(Thanks Wikipedia)

My To do list

Regular readers will know that I sometimes make a 'To do' list.  Having completed the patio my list now stands as follows.

• Rebuild the garden wall
• Grade 3 clarinet practice
• Grade 8 piano practice (I passed this many years ago but I feel I should brush up, given that I have to teach to that level next term, having been an organist for the last 30 years - my school usually only gets boys to Grade 4 [before they leave at age 13] but a lad is coming to us who has had a head start!)
• Plan lessons and cover (as I have a small operation in September) until  half term.
• Peripatetic teacher timetables
• Plan the carol service
• Sort out the band for the school play
• Do a little bit of family history which I have not touched this holiday
• Revise the plans for carpentry at school (which I 'teach', though not as a lesson)
• Get the car serviced
• Finish reading Steve's book which he emailed m
• Continue my series of Youtube videos on music theory

There may be more.

Yahoo

This is a portion of the sight which I see every time I go to the Yahoo webmail log-in page.

What would be more useful is some kind of explanation as to why I cannot log into my mail. Perhaps an estimated time that it will take to fix.  I see from downrightnow that this has been going on for a while.

I am annoyed.  I noe use Yahoo almost exclusively having given up on Outlook and Outlook Express so that I can get my mail on my laptop or elsewhere, should I need to.

Grrrr!

The Patio

Details over here.
 

Me and a horse

Over at Daydreamer, Ray has put up a photo of herself.  I felt I should do the same by way of moral support.

So here is a snap of myself taken at Acton Scott Working Farm which I mentioned in a recent post.  I took this with the time feature on my digital camera.  The horse is made of metal in case you were wondering.