Well the kids are off school, the wife doesn’t go back to work until Thursday/Friday and then she is off until just after Christmas.
Just the last few items of Christmas shopping to go and then we are done. I even managed to post ALL of the Christmas cards before the last post deadline this year (although I am bound to have forgotten someone !!).
It still doesn’t feel like its Christmas yet, the lights are up, the log fire is burning away since it definetly feels like it is cold enough to be Christmas.
I’d say 90% of my Christmas shopping was done online this year with no problems other than Argos getting things completely wrong. They have a really bad checkout system online that doesn’t have an ounce of common sense. I ordered 4 items one of which was an extended warranty. Having checked that all of them were available for delivery I completed the purchase only to be billed for £19.99 rather than the £99.99 that I expected. It transpired that they were out of stock of all the items, so just charged me for the warranty. So I ended up with a warranty for the items I wasn’t going to get. Not only that, but after I phoned them up to cancel the order, they charged me twice, and then charged me for the items that they first told me they were out of stock. So despite the checkout process telling me I had only been charged £19.99, I was actually charged that twice, and then the £80.00 for the out of stock items. It took a week for them to back charge my credit card, all the time them earning interest on my own money.
Needless to say, I won’t be using Argos online again, as this is the second bad experience with them in the past year.
Hello Chris,I just browsing the blogs and came across yours.Well first of all,I think you are way out of order for slagging off the NHS! You obviously never have worked in an NHS hospital. You are just taking your wife’s word on it.
Secondly, you go on about your wife working but no mention of you working. The only thimg you seem to do is go on your PC moaning about Argos, NHS, and anything else that you can think of.
Well that’s my moan. I could go on for longer but unlike some…. I got job to do mate!!!! By the way, Happy New Year!!!
Tom
I’m way out of order for slagging off the NHS? Get real.. Do you think it’s a system that is working? Do you really think its an organisation that is cost effective and returns a good investment on all the money that the Government spend on it?
Do you work in the NHS?
And if you knew anything about relationships, then I have complete faith and trust in what my wife says about her work. And anyway, they are my own observations about the state of her when she came home from work every night.
In fact the local hostpital she just left is now so much in debt, that they have reduced staffing levels to 2/3 and closed half of the wards !!
The same hospital still has the same infections that it had 6 months ago.
No mention of me working? True, its a personal blog where I try to seperate work and private life, but for your information, I run my own company so I get others to do the work for me whilst I take the money.
I have tried so hard not to use the words scouse, scallywag etc etc, but thanks for the personal attack on my character mate. (Happy New Year to you too btw).
Don’t tell me, your a LFC fan and your pissed at Ferdinands goal.
If you were a Toffee, you’d have been in a better mood and probably thanked me for some of my posts.
My blog is for my rants, things and give me a chuckle, my footy teams and whatever else I want to let off steam about at the time.
But thanks for your comments, much appreciated if only a load of bollocks.
Chris