The taps are dry....

Oh joy, just received an email from the accomodation office saying that welsh water have cut the warter supply to PJM because while doing their works, they broke something - yay:

Dear Residents,

Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we need to urgently inform you that the workmen working on the main Penglais Hill have had to turn the water supply off with immediate effect to repair the problem.  Please ensure your taps are turned off so it does not flood the area once the water is turned back on.

Sincere apologises for any inconvenience this may cause.

Many thanks,

Trains, again, *sigh*

Need I say much more? The trains failed again last night. Some selfish person deicded to throw themself infront of a train at Bilbrook - meaning that the line was shut down.

Spent 2 hours at Wolverhamption waiting for information. Finally a bus arrived (a small 32 seater) that went straight to Shrewsbury where onward travel was waiting.

Oh wait, it wasn't. Another one and a half hour wait there in the freezing cold, arguing with station staff for a taxi, hotel or refreshments - none of which would be given because there was a bus coming, just no idea when or how many free seats it would have.

So after that cold hour and a half there, a bus arrived, and guess what, it was a 52 seater that did all stops from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury, and was now going to Aberystwyth via Newtown and Caersws - so at least that avoided the wavey roads between Machynlleth and Borth.

Normal time of arrival at Aber = 23.24
Actual time of arrival at Aber   = 02.54

Joy :(

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Just failed my HGV Test - all because of some stupid BMW driver thinking he owns the road.

Scenario:

Yeading lane at Whiteheart Roundabout, next to the petrol station. I come up to the junction, wanting to turn left. However, as you can see in the google StreetView image below,  there is this little funny lane that appears. In a truck, you cannot take the whole of that little lane when turning left, otherwise you hit the curb (fail), therefore you can only cover part of it.

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This therefore means that the lane is still partially open for people exiting the petrol station. The BMW decided that he would attempt to use it to turn right IN FRONT OF ME. He was even partially on the curb. Obviously a big truck that looks like this with loads of 'L' plates all over it means that he is always right and can do anything, not: oh, I better be careful, there is a learner in there.

So I nearly take out this nice near-new black BMW because of his idiotic driving. The only reason I missed him is because the examiner shouted "STOP!" = game over :(

So that's ~£400 pounds down the drain because of a black BMW in my blind spot.

Note that if you own one, and I happen to have a golf club / cricket bat etc. in my hand, it may suffer a a consequence - you have been warned.

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Me 7 - Vodafone 0

... and I may have just started a couple of hours ago, but I thought I'd share a new rant that just again.

Vodafone every now and again somehow manage to add things to my bill that cost me money, and the bill for September was no different.
 Below I've put a cut from my phone bill

**Note that this came under the section for "Texts sent while in the UK" **

Date & time	Details	Cost
Mon 7 Sep 19:53	1 text	0.095
Mon 7 Sep 19:56	1 text	0.095
Mon 7 Sep 19:57	1 text	0.095
Mon 7 Sep 20:02	1 text	0.095
Mon 7 Sep 20:02	1 text	0.095
Mon 7 Sep 20:06	1 text	0.095
Mon 7 Sep 20:12	1 text	0.095
Mon 7 Sep 20:13	1 text	0.095

So my questions to Vodafraud was:

"a) How can I be charged for texts sent while in the UK when I didnt use up all my free texts that month"
"b) How did I sent texts when on a plane from Frankfurt to Heathrow, when my phone was off?"
"c) How come you are always screwing up my bill?"

They didnt have much to say (after a few minutes looking at the account). The guy dealing with my complaint was confused himself since he could see my phone was used in Germany, then in the UK only minutes apart from each other.
All they could say was "Sorry" and give me a credit for the random texts.

I probably should point out at this moment that I do know all the numbers the texts were sent to, but not even my phone had a recollection of the messages.

So thank you and off to the supermarket (Summer-Op-Co-field)...