unbeleeveable!

Have you contacted your third party supplier to see if you need to change any of your mail settings for your new adsl account?

What kind of saw did the ‘unspecified rodent’ use?

I’m waiting for my old phone number to ‘PAC’ across to my new phone.

And I like pistachios.

derek_starship – Member
Magpies will start nest building within a week.

Hatstand.

Wibble

chocolate teapot

Flaws? Yes, it still might not work.

The grey wire you describe is over 20yrs old and could well be faulty, especially if it goes all the way to the pole. If that is the case, you would want Openreach to come and replace it, because you may have a poor service/slow/zero ADSL if you dont. In replacing the grey wire, they will wire it all to an nte in the house, saving you a job.

Where is the original wiring?

Has your daughter just moved in?

If she has, presumably she has just taken over this line? Paid a connection fee?

If not, how long has she lived there and when did she notice that her phone line doesnt work?

You DID read the bit about it being illegal to play with wiring that doesnt belong to you?

Its not like renting YOUR OWN bike.

How about if you rented a bike from someone, then messed about with the brakes and then the brakes failed and you smashed the bike into a tree and wrecked it?
Would you expect that to be fixed as part of the rental agreement?

Or what about if you had it on a long lease but left it out in the rain or never cleaned it or looked after it reasonably and it fell to bits? Would that kind of mistreatment be covered by the rental agreement?

And it’s BT’s fault.

Its not BTs fault if folks think its OK to tinker with stuff that they shouldnt and then find they get charged to have it put right.
Just because you think its a ‘simple’ bit of wiring and wont kill you if you touch it, doesnt mean you cant get it wrong if you fiddle with it yourself.

WCA, is this a place where your daughter has just moved in?

If so, even if you ‘bodge’ the wires together, theres no guarantee that the line will automatically work.. it may be ‘switched off’ or otherwise need other work outside to get it going.
Sounds like you have an old type of grey wire coming into the house, is it grey all the way to the pole?
If it is, theres a good chance that it will be faulty and needs changing to a modern black wire. This is something that you cannot do.

If it WAS a working line but your daughter has removed/damaged some wiring, then why should it be replaced by an engineer for free? Do you expect free services from plumbers or electricians?

As others have posted, it IS illegal to mess about with Phone wiring that doesnt belong to you, i.e Anything before the the NTE, and including the NTE itself. (the frontplate is ok to attach wires to tho)

Also others have mentioned that some service providers may offer better deals than others with regards to connection charges, shop around for the deal that suits you most.

Openreach ‘rent’ the wiring to telecomms service providers on an equivalent basis, including BT and Talk Talk etc. What the service providers charge its customers for these services is up to them.

+1 for cold feet..

Hot feet = No sleep

Lovejoy was trying one out the other day on SFTW.
Looks like hard work

Starting with your toes and working upwards, tense all your muscles in turn for 5 secs..like this..

Toes, 5…4…3…2…1…
Ankles/Achilles, 5…4…3…2…1…
Calfs, 5…4…3…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

jonfrog – Member
Tignes 2010 december with Alpine elements. I feel for you ‘tomstickland’. We also had a horrific experience on almost every level, accomodation, reps, all the way to managerial level. Returned home after 2 days on our own accord to get answers from the UK office as nobody would help resolve our complaints in resort, to then just be blanked (whilst i was told that a manager was dealing with it – he still would not speak to me on the phone) I wrote a complaints letter and sent it by

BTW looks like jonfrog is doing quite a hatchet job on AE around the net..

http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=27550&start=80

Double posting even!

Me n Mrs Cheeze did an activities package there last summer and it was great for the money in my opinion.

Yeah, the accomodation is basic but the food is good and the staff when we were there were v.helpful/ accomodating.

The poor weather got a few of the activities cancelled, but we got our cash back on those with no hassle.

It was the first time mrs cheeze had done any real biking and she loved it.. we came back and got a couple of ‘proper’ XC bikes for pootling about on Exmoor.

We’re off to Morzine again in June.

If you want 5star and are the type of person who goes on holiday just to do nothing but moan about flights/ accomodation/ colour of the wallpaper, go elsewhere.

We loved it, had a chilled out time being left to do what we wanted, and not being hassled all the bloody time by overzealous staff asking us ‘Everything OK for you?’, like you get in some places.

If you are going to PDS purely for biking, scoff and somewhere to get your head down, plus have somewhere you can tinker/fix your bike, what else do you need?

philconsequence, are you jeremy beadle in disguise? 😀

250 from YBF

Looks a bit like its been ridden through poohs

I know what you mean though. I returned a defective teapot to Tesco recently and the woman spent about five minutes faffing with her till doing the refund before it occurred to her to say sorry as I was leaving

The woman in Tescos probably spent the five minutes wondering why you couldn’t just chuck a teabag in a cup! 🙂
people just want everything these days!

..has anyone else looked at the streetmap mint has put a link to and thought ‘i wish i lived in ”upperthong”?! 😀

thanks all for your replies and offers, theres plenty for me to think about in the next few days.

i got £200 here for the ‘bonus’ frame..

clearly wayne and his supporters have the luxury of picking and choosing their jobs.
as a consumer, i’d like to think that the guy coming to do work actually gives a **** about the task and prices fairly, especially as im paying to keep him in beer/fags and expensive DH bikes for the duration.
as for quoting higher for ‘miserable’ or ‘ugly’ people, maybe their cautious attitude is about not wanting to be being ripped off by one of those cowboys we sadly hear so much about.
i dont have an excuse as to why ugly people are ugly. 😀

ahh, so is this turning into a ‘how many bridges and a bike can you get in one shot this weekend’ thread? 😀

damn, foiled again!

2 pages absolute max.
The first ‘profile’ statement at the top of the first page is all that most ‘sifters’ will read, so make it punchy..
Use ‘power’ words like ‘successful’ key strength’ ‘energy’ ‘effective’
Find out as much as you can about the company and role you are applying for and ‘tune’ your CV so that you align your past experience/ education towards those criteria.
i.e If safety is a big part of the job you are applying for, mention any safety related accomplishments etc.
Dont use words like ‘try’ or ‘strive’, this indicates a failure to achieve. you either have achieved or you have not.
One last thing, dont say things like ‘I was part of a team that did this or that’. This indicates that you couldnt achieve anything by yourself. Make it about YOU ONLY.. ‘I won several new accounts, tripling our income’ (in the interview you may be asked how YOU did it)
Good luck!

frottage?

said

the abdomen on the fella in the last pic looks like a ginger testicle.

chris evans perhaps? 😀

damn you!
i was hoping to see a picture of an excited monkey!

*echoes mrlard*
would like a couple of those streetmap urls with the arrow pointed at the start of the descents?
fabled chimney plz? 🙂
I’d love to come n meet up/tag along but would be too ashamed of slowing the pros down/ looking like a ****!
Cheers for any streetmaps!

I had a ride up over and around the punchbowl last weekend.
Great fun, the moors were swampy as hell with the rain we had but visibility was 40m coz of the fog last weekend.
Navigating with heading and distance some of the time but wouldn’t have missed it for anything.
Great muddy slidabouts on the way down to withycombe farm from the punchbowl, good job i had my swampthing fr and wetscream rear, didnt put me foot down once!

had tried to get across the exe at withypool (south hill) but the crossing was under 2ft of fast flowing river, so had a rethink and went to winsford headed south towards yellowcombe and loop up round to the punchbowl. would be good to ride the other way too!