A mission to get satisfaction from poor suppliers ends up with solicitors as I tackle paperwork and disputes. Two good long sessions with the dog.
The weather varying from damp to just downright wet as we learn of December being the wettest for twenty years and 1992 the wettest year for ten.
Diana went out with Chrisula and her children to Cambridge and was hopelessly delayed. Norwich lost their latest football match and with all hopes of the title and possibly their manager Mike Walker.
There is something of the masochist in me. Not only do I create all sorts of rods for my own back like pursuing this journal, embarking on mammoth projects and suchlike; but I also feel the necessity to take on all examples of inefficiency and injustice. Today, I had a go at just about everyone and particularly those who had been sending me bills early and with incomplete or incorrect information.
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The response of many organisations to the slow payers of the economic recession is to send out bills earlier and earlier and even make out that they are payable before they are due. In the event, this may help their cash flow and targets but it can be counter-productive because if the bills are not paid immediately as being due upon receipt, they may be put to one side and thereby overlooked and paid even later still.
Thus went my disputes but the main item was my plan to seek redress with the computer parts supplier that failed to deliver working hardware and software for Daniel's computer and I ended the day with no satisfaction and by putting the whole matter to solicitors for advice. There were many other matters of administration that occupied me as well and so I was glad of a rest by teatime and a chance to put my feet up and read the newspaper. In between times, I was out with the dog for two long sessions and a short period around lunchtime.
In the morning, I had an excellent time with him entering water and retrieving the dummy and, this evening, I walked him around the village and got him more used to the strange sounds and shadows that accompany darkness. I also worked with him and the dummy in the garden to get him holding and not playing with things in his mouth which is my first stage in getting him to stop chewing game on retrieve. I had to make my own lunch as Diana went out with Chrisula and her children to Cambridge and was hopelessly delayed.
The weather varying from damp to just downright wet as we learn of December being the wettest for twenty years and 1992 the wettest year for ten. A short session with the gardener pressing him to get on with the task of water-proofing the shed and not prevaricating whilst the contents go rusty. The latest witch-hunt is for the scalp of another Tory minister who as put his party's "family values" initiative in ridicule by fathering an illegitimate child.
Norwich lost their latest football match this evening and with it all chance of catching the premier league leader. It seems that they may be losing their manager, Mike Walker, as well as Everton make overtures.