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M&S Complaint – Sausage Drought

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A complaint from 2018 – I think my final unposted one! And last ever complaint to M&S. ****** Dear M&S I went to M&S for breakfast this morning, in Moorgate, for the first time in around a month. It reminded me that I was due to complain to you – it has been on my to-do list for a few weeks. The reason it reminded me, was that I had gone in for a bacon and sausage sandwich. Alas, there was no bacon. But a sausage sandwich was sufficient. My real problem is an earlier sausage drought. A few weeks … Continued

James Went To Ksamil, Albania

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Why Albania? Good question. I wanted some sunshine and I wanted to be near the coast. It had to be a country that I had never visited before and also had to be fairly affordable – I had not long since started at M&S so though it didn’t need to be mega-cheap, there certainly were some constraints – Caribbean destinations definitely weren’t on the cards. Also I was going by myself. Which makes hotels and stuff much less affordable, given that I couldn’t share the cost. And I wanted something nice. I considered Malta and Montenegro, before almost accidentally discovering … Continued

Metropolitan Line Complaint: Autumn 2018

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You know how you can tell it is autumn? When the Metropolitan line starts going into regular meltdown, and what an autumnal week it has been. I suspect that this is going to be a bit of a long rant, so lets start on a positive note, or what should be a positive note – donuts. On Saturday 8th September, I had quite a hangover, but had to head into central London to pick up a suit. During my short spell on Oxford Street, a bird poo’d on me for the first time in my life, I found out the … Continued

A Collection Of Post-Election Thoughts

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1. I struggled to decide who to vote for on Thursday.  Really struggled – I expected some kind of support for Liberal Democrats from other remainers, but most plumped for socialism instead.  Boris’s behaviour and Brexit were why I turned away from the Conservative Party, but I felt myself coming back to the fold, the more I saw socialist thoughts and general arseholeness from entitled lefties. 2. In the end, I e-mailed both the local Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidate.  The Liberal Democrat candidate e-mailed me back – she was honest in her belief for campaigning against house-building that doesn’t … Continued

A Collection Of Election Thoughts

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This is an old blog – created when I was defiantly a Conservative.  Possibly the only one from Hull.  Hence the name. Now there are more Conservatives in Hull.  And I am no longer a Conservative. In my heart I am a Conservative – but as I’ve made clear over the past couple of years, the party has moved so far away from me that I struggle to recognise it at times.  I do want to vote Conservative and if I don’t vote for them this time, I want to feel able to in the future. So this page is … Continued

Not Enough Friends? Or Too Many Friends?

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I started writing this back in summer, when I’d had a few too many roast dinners by myself and was also struggling to find someone to go on holiday with me. Like the majority of my blog posts nowadays, by time I get around to publishing my thoughts, my thoughts have changed…or perhaps more realistically my reality has changed. It isn’t so much that I don’t have enough friends, but that they are all dispersed around the world doing their own thing. Which is exactly what I have done by moving to London. The dream is to travel back 10-12 … Continued

One Night In Corfu, One Night In Corfu

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I’ve always lumped Corfu in with the likes of Magaluf and Faliraki. It is an island that I would likely never have visited were it not for the requirement to get the ferry to my end destination, Ksamil in Albania, from Corfu. Whilst I could have arrived early and gone straight to the ferry to go to Albania, I decided to be a bit more leisurely and have an evening in Corfu Town itself. My Airbnb was top notch, in terms of affordability, location and charm. I could quite happily have stayed there longer, and even more important, it was … Continued

Complaint – Hull Trains (2018)

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Dear Hell Trains I had the misfortune of experiencing your air conditioning lottery with full force a few weeks back. I was travelling from Hull to London on Sunday 1st July, circa 14:30. I arrived at Paragon Station to be informed that there was no air conditioning in coach C, and that there was nowhere else for me to sit either. You could say I was fuming. Literally. And I hate the word ‘literally’. Originally I hoped to do some work on the train, although I know how patchy your wi-fi is (patchy being kind but this was the least … Continued

Complaint – M&S Birthday Pie (2018)

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I guess as part of the HR checks, M&S didn’t think to look through their customer complaints to see if potential employees had ever written to them. Phew. Here’s one that I can publish, now I’ve passed my probation. From 2018. Yeah I have a backlog of these things. ****** Dear M&S A few weeks ago, I had a birthday. Actually, it was a few months ago, but hey, the point still stands. I’ve already lost track of what I was going to say. Yeah I’m one of those complaint writers that always writes some long-winded nonsense that you really … Continued

Enough Is Enough! Or Was Enough…

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I was starting to crack a little. The last couple of months have seen multiple amounts of frustration and my anger levels rising – lets leave out the clusterfuck of Brexit for a moment (though worth mentioning), but things more directly in my control. I moved banks. Supposed to be easy but I had so many issues once moved, from randomly cancelled direct debits, to much more limited information supplied by First Direct on their online banking, and then having 3 separate passwords for their system and not being able to remember which was which, hence getting locked out constantly … Continued