My broadband service has gone down. The computer is connected to the router and the router shows ADSL connection, but no Internet. My ISP is Orange. I have been happy (ish) with the service, if you don’t count the issues with the LiveBox – until now.
I called customer services and reached Angela – a very [...]
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Orange Broadband, No Thanks
Posted in Credit Crunch, Excuses, Rant, Wii, Work, tagged broadband, money, orange, Rant on 29/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weekends away
Posted in Credit Crunch, Family, Friends, Work, tagged Credit Crunch, money, Quality of life, redundancy, Work on 01/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
With February being a bit busy, I’m really conscious that my boyfriend and I need to get away. We need to get away from home, from work, from our day-to-day lives. We really need to spend some time just being us. A couple. No homes to tidy, no issues to sort, no outside pressure – [...]
Blog rations
Posted in Credit Crunch, Me, Work, tagged Credit Crunch, Quality of life, redundancy, Work on 01/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t blogged for a while. In fact, February was very sparce in blogging terms.
It’s the job. It’s the commute. It’s adjusting to a change in lifestyle. Eek.
I get up at 6:20, I’m in car an hour later, another hour later I’m at the office. Between 5:30 and 6:00 I leave the office, drive for [...]
Credit crunch, convenient excuse?
Posted in Credit Crunch, tagged Credit Crunch, redundancy, Work on 16/01/2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, I don’t mean what you think.
The company that made me redundant at the end of last year ( remember, just in time for Christmas) has, this week, cut all employees salaries by 10%. Companies are getting away with treating their employees like s**t and using the credit crunch as the excuse.
Yesterday, another colleague was [...]
I’m still waiting…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Excuses, Me, tagged Credit Crunch, money, remortgage on 22/12/2008 | Leave a Comment »
I remortgaged in November. Just around the same time that I was made redundant, I got notification that my mortgage had completed. I breathed a sigh of relief. It all went through during the middle of the month.
So, here are the events of the last few weeks. Having paid up a full month in advance, [...]
Telescope on the Credit Crunch – sccope.com
Posted in Credit Crunch, Friends, Geek, Me, Wii, tagged Credit Crunch, money, sccope on 20/11/2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re all trying to save money in the run up to Christmas – but because of the credit crunch it’s a bigger issue than normal. Many of our favourite radio and TV presenters have picked up on this issue – Chris Evans’ radio show has the “Don’t Cancel Christmas” slot, for example. And various breakfast TV [...]