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... )

Bluuuuuue Moooooon, you saw me standing alooooone....
No, really, quite a bit of what young Mr Heritage says is remarkably sensible: I am just starting to realise, as others are, that everything doesn’t have to do everything. It is much more preferable to have something that can do one thing well.
Sing it. As someone who is obliged more often than ( Read more... )

(Actually weather seems to have quietened down a bit, at least temporarily.)

The Last Time the World was Simple. I am sure I have oftimes commented about this: though I think there is this whole issue of seeing elsewhere or elsewhen as Simpler, when in fact it is/was complicated in different ways. Also on the tendency to think there has never been ( Read more... )

Monocoloured socks.

All my socks are black.

But they don't all match. On account of

a) Marks and Sparks do be constantly changing the style of their basic black socks

b) either because of being in different dye batches, or from repeated washing, different socks are now distinctly different in actual shade of black.

So I still have to match socks ( Read more... )

Am not sure whether to be amused, aghast, or both (probably both, it's IAMC yoga time, folks) at the 'Men are simple creatures driven by the basic urges evolved on the primeval savannah' argument.

Because, hello, for centuries we wymmynz were told that our pore lickle minds could not possibly comprehend all the difficult things that srs male minds ( Read more... )

Does anyone else want to codslap Jamie Hewlett for this?

Hewlett and Damon Albarn have been engaged on a project 'Monkey: Journey to the West':
The first salvo was the opera, Monkey: Journey to the West, a visually extravagant affair designed and animated by Hewlett ('what you see is me, what you hear is Damon'). It premiered in Manchester last ( Read more... )

Words of wisdom:

Sometimes Guy Browning's 'How To...' columns hit nails right on the head:
There is generally held to be a deceitful and manipulative element to cunning but being considerate requires exactly the same mental processes, only for nicer ends.

Ditto Oliver Burkemann's 'This Column Will Change Your Life':
But there's a slightly less ( Read more... )

Looking at the 'simple pleasures' meme that's going about my flist, I'm having difficulty in coming up with any. Not because my pleasures are complex, sophisticated or decadent, but because, however simple at point-of-delivery, there's usually a lot more behind that even in the simplest pleasure.

Yesterday I was eating a ripe mango, which merely ( Read more... )