To Sainsbury's this morning. Dragged a week's worth of supplies back up the hill. Dead now. Mourn me not, only lay me on my bier with my trolley bag beside me and my Nectar card ready to my hand.

We've been sent a feedback form by the county council. Now, I'd quite welcome the opportunity to give some feedback about social services, but this isn't an appropriate form - firstly, it's not printed on fireproof paper, and secondly, it's just a list of services provided and a note of how much the prices are going to increase ( Read more... )

Care worker turned up at 9.24 a.m. for the 8 a.m. appointment, offering excuses about traffic... left at 9.39, having claimed 9.08-9.38 on her timesheet. She didn't do the thing with the phone ( Read more... )

My aunt rang up on Saturday and invited herself over for a visit the next day. This is the aunt who sent me that snotty note asking me to explain why she hadn't had the attention she was entitled to, so my hopes weren't high... it turned out, though, she was accompanied by her son-in-law and her daughter, that well-known du Maurier character, my ( Read more... )

Quoted without comment from Sainsbury's online shopping site:-

"We found 53 products for 'Toilet Roll'

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So a Very Important Update to Win10 came down the pike this morning, and I thought I'd better install it then. More fool me ( Read more... )

Over on the WordPress thing.

First thoughts over at the WordPress thing.

Over on WordPress, I've finally finished reading and reviewing "Vox Day"'s bleedin' awful A Throne of Bones. Glad to be shot of that job, at least.

Sure and 'tis a supporting membership for the 2019 Dublin WorldCon that I've been a-payin' for, at all, at all.

(A supporting membership, because if I actually go to Dublin and talk like that, I will deserve everything I get.)