Minor Rant Thread part 5

[julesapple]

Bloomin' rose bushes scratching the bedroom window...like squeaky nails down a blackboard, ughhh. The noise gives me the shudders. The BH is up there with a pillow over his ears. Will be out with the loppers as soon as the wind drops!

I took the Roman blinds down from the window yesterday as I need to replace them and hoped to reuse the linings, haven't quite finished stitching the new fronts and I didn't realise how much noise and streetlight they block out.

[Hilary B]

T&M (or post office, or maybe customs)!
I clicked for the chance of 10 strawberry plants and a planter, waaaayyy back when I had newly suscribed to the mag, they arrived on Monday, looking as if they had been in the box for weeks! 3 look completely dead and the other 7 are pale and fragile-looking. Planted within an hour, but not holding out much hope.

[Hazel at the Hill]

It has been rather a pleasant Spring morning, fluffy clouds, occassional sunshine. Now it is 1pm and I want to go for a run in my lunch hour it is lashing it down.

[Feral007]

Why has my patience deserted me just 2 weeks before my leave starts! I've only got one nerve left....and people are getting on it! I should feel guilty but I'm just thinking people should be glad I'm nto entirely feral this week ;/

[singleseeder]

It has been rather a pleasant Spring morning, fluffy clouds, occassional sunshine. Now it is 1pm and I want to go for a run in my lunch hour it is lashing it down.

Wet nearly all day here. Mid afternoon it begins to dry up, so, looking optimistically out of the window I use my flexi and say I'll leave at 4pm.

4pm, it begins to, and continues to, RAIN AGAIN!!

[cardiffsteve]

How can Alan Sugar "Fire" people who dont actually work for him?

[Glutton4...]

I don't like my hair short.

[Glutton4...]

If Mr.G doesn't get out the bladdy bath soon, I'll hold him under the watter!

[taff]

your hair will dry quickly though

[Feral007]

Sorry I know I mentioned this the other day - but FFS! Today we took Psycho pony for a drive to a lesson. First time in the float in 3 months since we couldn't get him into it last time to bring him home!
He did good. He got in! Then he was ok, not flinging himself round like an idiot. We have one single lane bridge between us and town. It's at the bottom of two hills. I'm driving steadily down into it, and someone whips around the corner opp. and tries to race me to the bridge - haha i'm on it! Flicked my lights like a mad thing, swore even madder and declined to stamp on the electric brakes and jack-knife my float and horse. Other driver finally stopped in the middle of the exit, and then backed up. I just want to put all those idiots into the back of a float with their arms tied to their body and see how they like swaying around in the back! Idiots! Dangerous idiots!

[cardiffsteve]

Had a phone call from a recruitment agency about a job I'd applied for last week.
Guy said there was a position available for me and when was I available to work, I told him I had been offered a job by 2 other places, he just said "OH!" and put phone down.
How rude!

[di]

Stupid staff at Job Centre...due to their ignorance and lack of will to investigate and help when I asked them a few weeks ago, I've now lost out on a Back to Work credit...£40 per week for a year

[cardiffsteve]

Di. How long have you been working. you can claim up to 5 weeks after starting.
You need to be working 16 hours a week or more and earn under £15000 per year.
I'd give the DWP a phone call and tell them whats happened and their staff are incompetent and see if you can claim it.

[di]

I started on 13th March, also enquired sometime then but nobody knew what they were talking about and put me through to several different departments. Due to them being closed weekends etc, today was the first day I managed to get there in person. My friend is going to help me write an appeal letter....also mentioning the complaint I never made...having my sick certificate waved about and the jobseekers woman saying ' I don't see why that would prevent you from work(depression and anxiety), it's not like you've got a broken leg or anything' At the time, I could hardly leave the door of my house and was close to a panic attack walking into town that day. her comments aggravated it more.

[di]

^ ^ and that was a rant as well as chat