BT - the deafening silence continues

So I've heard nothing from them - no further phone calls, no emails .
So ive  re-sent the email in case the original got lost.

My New Desktop

On a pleasant summers evening , the view isn't bad

Now you see it , Now you dont,

We have had an Eglu for many years . We  started with  one of the very early ones  ( I think we had No. 6 off the production line)

and then things changed and we got a bigger one and put it on our own platform

and then we got an Eglu Cube and at one point had 10 hens, rescued  by the British Hen Welfare Trust 

Initially we weren't going to take the Cube to Orkney, thinking it would be too windy, but after talking to some hen keepers on Sanday, which is a bit flatter and probably a bit more exposed than where we are , we have changed  our view and we are going to take the Eglu Cube up North, so its been dismantled and stored and in due course will go in the trailer.

So now you see it

 and now you  don't 

BT - the deafening silence

So , I received a message on my phone on July 17th at 1615 from  a Complaints manager wishing to discuss the contents of an email they are sending me. Sadly I was at work , so couldn't take the call.

Its now 5 days later but there  has been no email. I'd better remind them I suppose.

And I've had a response to the Data Subject  request - sadly the disk is Orkney, and im not and  so depending on the size of the data files it may  have to wait until Im there.

Relocating the trees

Well, in the valley there are some trees -  being east-facing it gets enough protection to allow the trees to grow to about 10 feet ( and to be big enough  to get in the way of the  truck!).


We have had trees at the allotment in Newcastle, whoever takes on the allotment may not want 50 trees and you cant really sell them.
So we  decided to take them with us. The idea that we are going to try and grow apple trees in Orkney has led to raised eyebrows ( to put it politely !)  from Orcadians.

After being heavily pruned , we spent a day digging them up , and then in groups of 2 or 3 ,wrapping the roots in damp straw  and putting them in a sack.  As moving day is busy we had to do this a week before moving.




So they were then kept in the now-empty hen run. Stacked up and regularly watered, we were lucky that it wasn't too hot, but  a few of them  were wilting after 3 days, but we persevered with the straw and watering, and when the day came , they were staked in the trailer and off we went.

I was asked at Aberdeen if I had livestock in the trailer but they still checked when I said  " no , just trees".



 On arriving in Orkney we needed somewhere to 'store them' whilst deciding on  suitably sheltered areas.
So we found a sheltered area 'out the back' .

and heeled the trees in.

Heeling in trees

• dig a shallow trench
• lay the tree roots in the trench
• cover the roots with soil ( and we used the straw that had been used to transport the trees)
• water well.

BT - ducking and diving

So this drags on - the dialogue of the deaf. BT are 'sorry for any inconvenience caused '. Inconvenience is a mild term for the hassle !

So i have exchanged a few emails with them , pending a data subject access request response and a cheque for £10, to see what they think happened and who said what and when.

the latest version from BT is that the phone call on the 28th ( after we had moved in, and intended to be the phone call that activated the BB ) was to 'place the order' . But I've got an email from them , generated on 6th June that thanks me for the order and gives me the connection date of 4th July.

So we will have to take this a line at a time.

I've corrected them about is the date i placed the order - the 6th June and not the 28th . I'll have to forward back to them the email that they sent me if they continue to be a bit confused. I've asked them what information I was given on the 8th June. Thats all . So hopefully no scope for obfuscation.
we shall see

A tale of 2 Tescos

Here's the Tesco that we were used to in Jesmond ( well, at least until Waitrose opened up just along the road)

And this is the one in Kirkwall

On our first visit to Tesco in Kirkwall we were unable to buy

-Pear Juice
-Organically reared chicken
-Toilet Rolls from recycled paper

pretentious , moi ?