The (not so old) Crocks Cafe

M.E.

We're nowhere near ready for Venice tomorrow:D:D
Enjoy Alicante.
Everybody in the cafe can have a virtual coffee in Venice with us.
Cafe has been moved to Venice. OK?

Gemmzie

Yup, very happy to be any where that might be warmer

Horace

Well next week - you can move the cafe to Alicante - it is due to be warm and sunny on Sunday 15 degrees C:j I won't be logging on though as there is no internet connection in the flat - there isnt even a telephone line:rolleyes:

altocumulus

Sorry I'm late, and all that useless excuses!!!, but Happy New Year all - and btw, no-one is allowed to have a cold - anymore ......

LameWolf

Right, first thing, I have to scream. AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Phew! I feel better now. Our mail is going missing (four items that I know of, probably others also), we are getting other peoples' mail delivered to us (for an address the other end of the estate), we have just had to have four cracked roof tiles replaced - and I hate having workmen round the place when Mr LW isn't here, and now my printer has packed up in the middle of an important job. Can anything else possibly go wrong??

I think I should go back to bed and stay there!

Horace

That's 4 panes of glass that need to be replacing in the cafe now Wolfie - please can you stop howling:D

I had to go to the eye hospital to pick up my reading glasses today - it meant a trip on the bus (I was as warm as toast as I had walking boots, thick socks, ski jacket, gloves and a ski balaclava on). I sat in my seat and part way to town I noticed a 2p lying on the floor so I prayed that no-one would kick it out of the way, they didnt and it is now in my pocket. I had to get a bus into town and a bus out but I now have my new reading glasses which I need to get used to before I can have my distance glasses:j I can't tell you what a joy it is to be able to read without holding the book or newspaper 2 inches from the end of my nose and when I have been reading in bed I have come close a few times to actually flicking my eye with the pages:eek:

Its not nice having workmen in at all even if someone is there with you. As for your disappearing post, complain to the post office - you should be compensated for it.

Wolfie - hop into your basket by the fire and I will bring you a bowl of hot chocolate laced with brandy or other warming alcoholic beverage.

LameWolf

Thank you Horace. I'm sure we can find a female virtual glazer, so it won't be so traumatic having the glass in the cafe replaced as my roof tiles were.:o

We're currently having a running battle with Royal Mail - one item that has vanished is membership paperwork for an organisation I do the local records for, so my "boss" (so to speak, as it's voluntary work) is getting ratty with them also. She posted it to me on 22 Dec, and it's fallen into a Black Hole. Not the first time either - we had a spate of this just over a year ago.

Interestingly, I had an item this morning postmarked 9 Jan 2009. Strange, as today's only 7th.

Have to say, hot choc laced with brandy is just the job right now.:p

Horace

The Royal Mail can be right twonks at times - I am the only person in my block of flats that has their own personal lockable letterbox on the wall by the front door (outside under the canopy). I got this box myself because I was fed up of my landlords promises to get one well, what has been happening recently is that my post is being put through the front door where it lands in the communal hallway to be pinched by one of the tenants in the basement:mad: I know stuff gets pinched or even read because I once found an Amex Statement that had been ripped open now it wasnt there when I went out that morning but funnily enough it had appeared by the afternoon - the only person in the block at the time was the girl who lives in flat 2:mad: Well I got onto the post office who promised me that it wouldnt happen again and that a note had been left at the sorting office to say that my post must be separated out and put into my postbox - it happens most of the time except when my normal postie is on holiday and it happens all over again and my post goes missing for a few days then it reappears because of the laziness of the relief postie.:mad:

I am sure this girl in the basement looks for cheques or credit cards - I know that once I had some business cards delivered and they ended up in her flat, the postman had left them but she didnt like answering the door when I went to collect them. One of the girls upstairs has had post go missing and a few times she has seen the postie and collected my post and dropped it on my doormat.

I am beginning to think that there is no need to put a postcode on because that is supposed to ensure delivery to your door but it doesnt seem to happen - maybe its because the posties these days can't read because English isnt their first language:rolleyes:

Best jump off my soap box and start tidying up.

allydowd

About a year ago our postie kept dropping rubber bands on the floor which our dog took a shine to and we'd have to go check the whole stairway before we could take the dog out. We knew the bands were the posties. I called the Royal Mail who said they wouldn't do anything unless we could prove it was the postie dropping them. We couldn't be bothered to argue....sigh...

I'm not anti-postie, my gran and sister were both long term employees of the Royal Mail and I once worked as a sorter, but asking us for proof was flipping ridiculous. What did they want? CCTV?

allydowd

I did once consider getting a PO Box:

Royal Mail link