What is hacking you off today?

[cerbera45]

Liverpool fans booing the national anthem before the League Cup final

 

[ESG]

Miller and carter in rayleigh, poor customer service. Keep waiting for ten minutes to seat at table, food arrived with stuff missing. Complained and they didn't give a **** then kept waiting for twenty minutes for the bill. Staff seem to be going through the motions

It's been awfull service and overpriced for a long time now. As said elsewhere The Bull in Hockley is no better.

 

[pottster]

It's been awfull service and overpriced for a long time now. As said elsewhere The Bull in Hockley is no better.

Have to say the food was very basic, especially what we got served!

 

[Knights In White Satin]

Having been bought to light in 2015, 9 years later and still waiting for answers from the post office.
Seems everyday there is something new in the enquiry, and they seem to be trying to blame everyone else and not taking account for anything......
All I want is for my name and hundreds others names to be cleared so we can move on with our life's and not have this hanging over us anymore

 

[SUBBlue]

People who believe they own the public road outside their property and nobody else is allowed to park there.

Old man this morning advising in shouty sweary terms that his daughter “might” be coming so I had better move my effing car.

I was not blocking his drive, nor on the verge and there was a driveway clearly big enough for 2 vehicles.

I merely locked my car & walked away without a word. If he’d been more polite I might have done so out of courtesy to him.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Dog escaped last night and turned up several houses away barking at another dog through the patio doors.

Turns out he has been doing it for days.

Looks like fences need replacing and I will probably offer to halves with my neighbour who owns it.

 

[cerbera45]

I'm on the BBC Cricket webpage reading an article and embedded top-right is the Formula 1 qualifying result - cheers BBC you have saved me the bother of watching it (after waiting all day)

 

[Jassyfa2]

Absolutely lost my running mojo. Brentwood half marathon on the 24th March and I can’t be bothered to train let alone sign up and it’s my favourite run

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Absolutely lost my running mojo. Brentwood half marathon on the 24th March and I can’t be bothered to train let alone sign up and it’s my favourite run

1st time i ran that one was back in 84, would probably take me 3 hrs now!.
So what's happened for you to lose your enthusiasm?.

 

[Benfleet A1]

Having been bought to light in 2015, 9 years later and still waiting for answers from the post office.
Seems everyday there is something new in the enquiry, and they seem to be trying to blame everyone else and not taking account for anything......
All I want is for my name and hundreds others names to be cleared so we can move on with our life's and not have this hanging over us anymore

I feel your pain, know someone who was ruined by this travisty. Hope you get justice and proper compensation very soon.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

The incesant rain here in Dorset, not known anything like it since we moved down here six years ago. Really screwing up my working life as a gardener.

 

[RHB]

The incesant rain here in Dorset, not known anything like it since we moved down here six years ago. Really screwing up my working life as a gardener.

Not that it helps you much, but it has been throwing it down on and off, all day in Southend as well.

 

[Supershrimper]

Not that it helps you much, but it has been throwing it down on and off, all day in Southend as well.

Yep same here in Stanford-le-Hope. My back garden can only be described as a swamp. If I tread on the grass it just squelches under foot and a puddle of water appears in the footprint where I once stood.

I suppose very little can be done when the ground is basically clay.

 

[RHB]

The price of stamps will rise again on 2 April - the fourth increase in two years for the cost of sending a letter first class. Royal Mail said the price of a first-class stamp would rise by 10p to £1.35 and second-class stamps would increase by 10p to 85p.

Apart from Xmas cards, I don't have a need for stamps, but I guess this will again penalise small on-line traders that use the postal service.

 

[Supershrimper]

Beat the price rise be buying a job lot. I bought back in 2016 2 books of 100 stamps for sending wedding invitations. We had loads left over as we then decided to hand deliver the majority as and when we saw people.

Provided the stamp doesn't have a price on it and instead just says the postage class, it's still valid after the hike.

Stock up on 2nd class stamps at almost half the price as a 1st class. Just post Christmas cards / Birthday cards etc a day or 2 earlier.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

Beat the price rise be buying a job lot. I bought back in 2016 2 books of 100 stamps for sending wedding invitations. We had loads left over as we then decided to hand deliver the majority as and when we saw people.

Provided the stamp doesn't have a price on it and instead just says the postage class, it's still valid after the hike.

Stock up on 2nd class stamps at almost half the price as a 1st class. Just post Christmas cards / Birthday cards etc a day or 2 earlier.

Top tip: send Christmas cards now just in case there's another price hike before year end.

 

[londonblue]

Not that it helps you much, but it has been throwing it down on and off, all day in Southend as well.

Same here. If we get a hosepipe ban in the summer I'm going to be mighty ****ed off. Every single reservoir and aquifer must be completely full after the amount of rain we've had this winter.

 

[londonblue]

Beat the price rise be buying a job lot. I bought back in 2016 2 books of 100 stamps for sending wedding invitations. We had loads left over as we then decided to hand deliver the majority as and when we saw people.

Provided the stamp doesn't have a price on it and instead just says the postage class, it's still valid after the hike.

Stock up on 2nd class stamps at almost half the price as a 1st class. Just post Christmas cards / Birthday cards etc a day or 2 earlier.

Why bother with invitations at all? Use something like Paperless Post?

 

[Holy Joe]

Beat the price rise be buying a job lot. I bought back in 2016 2 books of 100 stamps for sending wedding invitations. We had loads left over as we then decided to hand deliver the majority as and when we saw people.

Provided the stamp doesn't have a price on it and instead just says the postage class, it's still valid after the hike.

I'm not sure that's right. Royal Mail did a stamp exchange last year where you needed to send off 'old' stamps, even those that just said 1st or 2nd to exchange for new stamps with barcode. Exception is picture stamps, like the Xmas ones, which are still valid.

https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps

 

[Supershrimper]

I'm not sure that's right. Royal Mail did a stamp exchange last year where you needed to send off 'old' stamps, even those that just said 1st or 2nd to exchange for new stamps with barcode. Exception is picture stamps, like the Xmas ones, which are still valid.

https://www.royalmail.com/sending/barcoded-stamps

The barcode on the new stamps is to allow for some form of tracking within the system. I'm sure I read somewhere that people could also code a video to the barcode as they are a QR code