Sue

Went to the checkout yesterday with a basket of stuff including a bottle of wine which was supposed to be ?3.99 - half price. I paid by debit card. Glancing at my bill on my way out I saw I had been charged ?7.99 for the wine. Yet this was for a wine which was on a massive display with "half price" in enormous letters over it! On returning to the checkout, I was asked to sign a slip saying "- ?7.99, product unsuitable" - I crossed out the "product unsuitable" and wrote in "wrong price charged." Instead of having ?7.99 refunded via the card and ?3.99 charged to the card, I was handed four pound coins - and no copy of the slip, I afterwards realised. I have no idea how the other ?3.99 was accounted for given that apparently the whole ?7.99 had been deducted from the till. I am honestly not carrying out a vendetta against Somerfield - I still shop there, after all! - but this is the third incident I have personally been involved in (card cloned - my bank more or less admitted it was from there - no cashback given, overcharged) and I have witnessed others (no cashback given - like me, the guy realised before leaving the store). Am I just unlucky? Or is it my own fault for being nitpicky and looking at my bill? :-S Edited to say: Even more nitpickingly, I think it might have said "product not required", not "product not suitable"

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Until that happens I'm sorry but it will remain a > faded backwater pub that about 4 people drink in > with silly wall paper out front and a velvet > morgue in the back. xxxxxxxxx We were in there at the weekend and it was absolutely rammed, it was lovely to see it so full :) Glad other people are discovering its charms :)

tropica Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > I'm afraid it does go astray quite often when > there is a replacement postman. > A fortnight ago we found some of our neighbour's > post shoved into our paper recycling bag. We could > only presume that the (holiday replacement) > postman couldn't be bothered to walk back a few > yards when he realised that he hadn't delivered > all their post. > >xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Have you reported this? If not, it will just continue to happen :-S

bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue why would the sender send us copies which we > got in two days if it was sitting on someone's > desk???? > Bob S xxxxxx Well there could be a number of reasons, but life's too short - but just one, different people involved :)

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bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lenk > We phoned the company after 3 days they confirmed > it was posted on the 13th so it look's as it's > down to our good old postal service. > Bob S xxxxxx Unless they can prove when it was posted, I'm inclined to think it may well have been sitting on someone's desk somewhere. Mail really doesn't go astray that often, though of course it's very noticeable when it does.

I use Barry Road frequently, including at night, and I don't feel unsafe. This kind of approach, whilst no doubt meant well, is just encouraging people to feel unnecessarily nervous. Vulnerable due to overgrown trees/bushes at a bus stop?! On a busy main road?! Whatever next (no, don't tell me :) )

Can franking machines be falsified? Are you sure it was actually posted when the date stamp says? Edited to say I obviously didn't mean the machine could be falsified but I've had a hard day :))

I see Ray is still sticking to American spelling ... Center? Favorite?

On the radio yesterday (erm, I was in the car) there was a whole piece about Pollack being renamed because people are too embarrassed to ask for it. It wasn't even 1 April. What a load of Pollacks.

We got really close to the heron on Saturday, it was right by the path. Have only ever seen it on the island before. Sadly however a family came and started throwing bread at it and it flew off :-S

They do kindly put in info about our music events :) And I like the new layout of SE22 I live off North Cross Road and get both SE22 and Living South delivered regularly

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> Yeah PGC, that Suzie Quatro with her 'Can The Can' > nonsense. Got right up my hooter so it did. xxxxxxxxxx Hey lay off, HB, Can the Can was great :)) :)-D

njc97 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue - I agree. I had a superb sunday lunch in the > mag last weekend but my only gripe were the > potatoes. Over boiled and not crispy enough. xxxxxx Yeh it's a shame, I should have said something really as that was the second time I've had an excellent roast in the mag spoiled by soggy potatoes, and the rest of my lunch was wonderful.

dazeykat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sadly, no sparrows or song > thrushes in my garden though. Does anyone else > have them? xxxxxx I had loads of sparrows last year, not seen many this year though.

Stamp collecting, bridge, golf, taking photographs of buses and cataloguing them. Not. Probably if you were going to do any of those you would be doing them already though. Edited to say: An ex of mine spent hours doing three of those, and an ex work colleague from Basingstoke did the other. Buses. Had a whole room of his house devoted to the photos. I shared an office with him for over a year. He also smoked a pipe. In the days when smoking in offices was allowed. It was a very small office. Hey, you could take up pipe smoking as a hobby. Clan is a good pipe tobacco, mmmmmmmmm.

People crunching apples. People sniffing. People who say "to be honest" when they're clearly not.

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely just a 40 or a 185 or a 176 to E&C, > Bakerloo to Paddington and then the express > train? > > S'alright for you, I have to get there for 5am - > now thats a bugger. xxxxxxxx 185 doesn't go to E&C - goes to Oval, Vauxhall, Victoria. Hope you made your flight Michael P!

Hey that's really good news Ratpack! :)-D

woodie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > we have inherited the number of a previous dentist > from around there.Man there is nothing weve been > able to do except lose the number to shake em off. > which we havent. there are surges as new databases > are re sold and it all starts again. Responses > have ranged from the polite to the bizarre. offers > of string and door and a cassette tape in the > background a while back. with screams. That was > the winner in an online competition to 'find the > best solution to the dentist calls'. Mind you the > amount of spam calls dentists get is pretty > awesome. as we know. Once ( I know its juvenile > but.. there was so many) a suggestion of hypnosis > instead of injections got quite a long way before > the guy went 'hang on your winding me up here'. > Once there was about 7 calls a day. Down to 3 a > week now at most. xxxxxxx Hey Woodie, you could start a second career :)) A white coat, a big chair and a pair of pliers and you're away. :))

eccentric Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Oh Ye of little faith,I hear Hope and Greenwood > are opening up a new shop in big London, also Body > Shop are loooking for premises in Dulwich, any > thoughts? xxxxxxx Oh please not a Body Shop - even though I have used their moisturiser for years. Much of their stuff is just rubbish, and their perfume smells of chemicals even if it isn't made of them. And this is the company which had their "soothing" range packaged in red, and their "stimulating" range packaged in blue. Shomething wrong there Shurely??? I bought three tubes of handcream from their internet sales thingy earlier this year, basically because it was half price and post free, so clearly the company is not exactly thriving, though didn't some massive cosmetics firm buy it out? Anyway, the handcream (which could probably have fitted into a smallish jiffy bag) arrived with each tube in a thick cardboard box, then those three cardboard boxes in another bigger cardboard box, and that bigger box was (if I remember rightly, it's upstairs and I can't be arsed to go and look) in a bag. I have (sad I know) saved all the packaging but haven't actually got round to taking a picture of it to send to their head office to COMPLAIN!!!! This is the company which trumpets about ENVIRONMENTAL STUFF!!!!!

nutty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where will I buy all my jossticks from now! :-S xxxxx If you are serious, and if you burn Nag Champa, by far the cheapest place I know is the Indian grocer in Drummond Street, behind Euston Station. Works out at not much more than 60p a box if you get a big box containing ?twelve? boxes. Karavan used to charge well over a quid for a box and wouldn't discount for quantity. I didn't think they still sold stuff like that though since they changed from ethnic to eco. You can go to the Ravi Shankar in Drummond Street at the same time and get the best kulfi in London. And go to the Cellar Upstairs folk club if it's a Saturday, hurrah! :) If you like folk music of course. Which I do. Obviously. :)-D

Was on Evening Standard billboards tonight - something like "house prices rise at last." Got a way to go though before my house hits the dizzy heights it reached at one point, shame I needed somewhere to live really or else I would have sold it then :)

Do you mean the tip? Which has recycling bins etc as well? I use the one off Rosendale Road, I don't think it's Southwark but they never ask for proof of what borough you live in!

I think we probably did that after the church sitting thing :) :)-D