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Just went out to fight the shed for my Christmas tree. I found a big scary false widow spider. I managed not to scream or be excessively girly about it though, and it didnt bite me so I am happy!

rant

So I get an email the other day telling me to submit my gas and electricity meter readings. I go online, enter my readings, get my bill. We have currently overpaid by about £16, with our monthly direct debits of £82.50. I get an email today, saying "we've looked at your account and don't think you're direct debit is big enough to cover your bills. So we're upping it to £94 a month".

I call the number, go through all the automated menus and security, to be told "we are sorry, our customer services advisors are currently dealing with a high volume of calls and they're all busy. Please call again later" and it hangs up on me!

I want to hold, dammit!

Not surprised they're dealing with lots of calls, if they've just upped everyones direct debits again though.

yay

I have a Christmassy house :-) The tree is up, and it fits in front of my living room window like I wanted, and its all decorated and has a big pile of presents underneath it and everything

and I have a second (slightly tropical) tree in the dining room :-)

My christmas trees

( Since Richard asked... )

No-one but Troll will share my delight...

I got a letter published again!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/your_letters/