1. It is bonfire night - or more properly Guy Fawkes night - the night we strange British people celebrate someone not quite blowing up the houses of parliament by lighting fires and burning effigies of him - though these days it's more an excuse for letting off fireworks ....... lots of fireworks......... they've been going off in great numbers from Saturday - though Sunday was Diwali which accounted for quite a lot of them. Luckily the dogs aren't bothered at all by them and like to sit out in the run and watch - however, it was a bit much for Gretchen this evening as the kids in the flats at the end of the garden (kind of) are holding a display and letting lots off at the boundary wall......... Gretchen has just spent 5 minutes barking her displeasure at them!
2. I am totally and completely disgusted by Amazon and their delivery service. I was offered a trial of Prime, their next day delivery, and on Wednesday night last week ordered a couple of things for my sister's birthday - on the grounds they'd be here on Friday for her birthday Saturday....... I waited in all day Friday - no delivery. I phoned up the courier service - all they could tell me was that it was on the van - it never arrived. Saturday they don't deliver - I had to rush out and buy an extra present - Monday I was told that it was on the van again - I stayed in - no delivery - I ranted to Amazon. Today I was assured it would be delivered - but when I got home, guess what, no delivery and no card through the door. Again I ranted to Amazon - only to be told that as they'd tried to deliver the parcel on three occasions, they were now returning it to Amazon!! I would be refunded in 2 - 3 days and if I still wanted the goods would need to re-order! To say I was irate would have been the understatement of the week.......... my formal letter of complaint garnered a phone call from Amazon - they are investigating further!
3. I have had to put the heating on - that is to say the gas fire in the lounge - as we had our first frost and it's now not getting about +5C - don't laugh people in colder climates - so far, we've had lightly toasted dog and the smell of burning dust - but hey, it's warm in here - the rest of the house is like an ice box mind! I really need to try and sort something out about fixing my heating!
4. I wonder why I try to do NaNo - it appears I cannot write for myself - I need a deadline and someone to let down if I don't get it done! I plotted, I planned, I had an outline........... I ditched it all to write a sci-fi M-preg story for someone..... I have a 5th December deadline....... i've got the first 1000 words done, and it's amusing me greatly - whether it will amuse anyone else we shall have to wait and see.
5. I went back to work today after the first of my long weekends - I have another 3 before the end of the year - I wondered after about 30 minutes why the hell I'd bothered to have time off as I had a gazillion e-mails to deal with, loads of queries and even though I was off on Monday my team leader managed to need to text me with a couple of questions that she decreed couldn't wait - heaven forbid I have an actual day off at some point!!
Right that's probably enough venting of frustrations for one post - I am off to write more about my pregnant alien and his quest to find little emo-goth boy that knocked him up and break the good news to him.........
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