Is there a lurking subtext here that they do not want the Cats Protection League to be associated with the concept of Crazy Cat Ladies, or perhaps, to be less gendered, Pathological Pet Hoarders?
Cat charity CEO quits over colleague keeping 18 cats in house: Charles Darley claims chair of trustees is not adhering to standards charity expects of ( Read more... )

Yesterday we had a Bosch washing-machine engineer come to look at ours, as it has been making disturbing rattly noises during the spin-cycle.
So he looked at it, and off course it failed to oblige at making the racket. He replaced the heating-element (which was probably not involved in that issue, but really needed it), and went away, saying, if it ( Read more... )

Well, this is exasperating/depressing: this article demonstrates that biographies about women who meet Wikipedia’s criteria for inclusion are more frequently considered non-notable and nominated for deletion compared to men’s biographies: On March 7, 2014, a biography for Donna Strickland, the physicist who invented a technology used by all the ( Read more... )

As dr rdrz probably know, yr hedjog maintains a website which is pretty much to modern website practice what wattle and daub huts are to skyscrapers, which is paid for as a hobby project and has been maintained in spare time for over twenty years. It may not get a huge number of hits but it gets a steady flow of interest from people who are ( Read more... )

I think I may finally have got the online banking thing for the credit card sorted? Not before getting into a tangle of frustration and sending a furious vent via their complaints system about how much time and hassle had been involved when all I wanted to do was give them my mobile number for security purposes. But anyway, I was eventually able to ( Read more... )

There were 2 damaged items in today's grocery order (Ocado/M&S) and you know what? they have a really nifty 'Request Refund' system where you can go to the actual order and tick the item and there is a drop-down menu of issues for which one might request a refund -
Boom! Done! Confirmation email received!
- and I think of the absolute run-around ( Read more... )

Feeling a bit frazzled on the shopping front this week - was not able to get a delivery slot in spite of obsessive refreshing, not exactly conducive to getting on with anything else with any concentration.
In the case of other things besides routine grocery shopping - and honestly, navigating round online supermarkets is a bit of a faff, I think it ( Read more... )

Being, after all, within one of the categories which is supposed to isolate as far as possible (An Old) -
- and of course, supermarket delivery slots are booked until, it would seem, sometime in the middle of next year -
- and the one which says, in their socially conscious way, that they are introducing a prioritisation scheme by which people ( Read more... )

My dr rdrz may or may not have been following the saga of the gym, which I had been going to since Tyme Whereof Ye Memorye of Manne Runneth Notte, but changed hands around the beginning of 2018, and proceeded to faff about.
There was the whole business of saying they had no record of the three year membership I still had a substantial portion of to ( Read more... )

Okay, I have recovered pretty much from my travels and am beginning to get matters moving, sort of, once more...
but let me tell you, the peeves are a bit put out at the following:
Yesterday, I went to the gym, and the latest disappearances were the elliptical machine and the treadmill, i.e. the things I use (which were still there last week). At ( Read more... )