My trusty old Grundig PVR video recorder gave up the ghost, taking with it my video library on its hard disk. One of my grandsons stepped in and very generously bought me a new Humax box, and I was getting used to its new terminology – “Reservations” are programmes I’ve set up to record. All was going fine until all of a sudden a big block of the evening showed “No Reservations” on the programme guide. A call to the most helpful customer service line resulted in an email with ten different points I could check.
I was just about to embark on this voyage of discovery when I looked in the newspaper TV Guide and discovered that a film with Catherine Zeta-Jones was showing that evening. Check the title!
I trust this got as good a chuckle from you as it did for me and my whole family. Just please don’t tell the very helpful man from Humax who put so much time into compiling a list of suggestions for me!
So glad that Miss Manners has come to Facebook. Thanks to @Mari Smith I saw the sad news about Alice:
Though I did once work on a word processor very similar to the one Alice is using, I don’t know Alice, and even if I did I would no longer be friends with her – or Timmy!
Update on my car insurance – mentioning no names, I phoned to confirm a quotation I had received over the internet a few days before from a well-known company and was told that this quotation was “no longer available”. The cost of the cover had now risen to double!!
However, via GoCompare.com, I eventually found a great V.O.G.-friendly company – Liverpool Victoria – and am now happily insured with them.
Fellow drivers – Keep your wits about you when you delve ino this insurance business!!
The renewal of my Car Insurance has arrived in the post today and I was speechless when I saw that it has been increased by fifty percent!!
When I phoned the Insurance Company to discuss this I was told that there had been an increase regarding all car insurances but mine was mainly due to my age!!
I pointed out that I had never had a claim during all the years I had been insured with them. Take it or leave it was their attitude – hard cheese!!
I was pretty exhausted after my last shopping trip – and I didn’t even leave the house! Tesco had made changes to their online grocery system, and the helpline wasn’t able to help much – they just wanted me to get rid of my cookies and I hadn’t even ordered any!
The order was delivered yesterday and it was fine, but I may just take the car next time.
Maybe you’d like to hear about my latest “gadget” for keeping bread fresh. It’s an adjustable bread keeper and it really does keep your bread fresh. I admit to being a sandwich-lover and therefore always like to have really fresh bread available. This was a gift from my daughter who, incidentally is a well-known London caterer – Georgie of GeorgiesCatering.com.
“Gogo” in South Africa is the revered name for V.O.G. and also simply the word for “grandmother”. My son has spent a great deal of time there and I have been introduced over Skype video to many of his South African friends. They have bestowed on me the honorary title of Gogo too!
Here is a lovely photo of two of my Gogo friends, Unice and Nellie with my daughter-in-law Barbara.
just about to embark on this voyage of discovery when I looked in the newspaper TV Guide and discovered that a film with Catherine Zeta-Jones was showing that evening. Check the title!
NOT a good day today!!
I was pretty exhausted after my last shopping trip – and I didn’t even leave the house! Tesco had made changes to their online grocery system, and the helpline wasn’t able to help much – they just wanted me to get rid of my cookies and I hadn’t even ordered any!
Maybe you’d like to hear about my latest “gadget” for keeping bread fresh. It’s an 
