Well, it's been quite a week

[girlyswot]

On Thursday I left Cambridge just before 6am and arrived in Scotland at 1pm. On Friday I did the journey in reverse, ending up at the Old Shed at about 10pm last night. There were trains, buses, planes, taxis, trams, cars and feet involved. No boats, which is something to be thankful for, I suppose.

My internet has not been connected at the Shed (major grrrrrrr) and this morning I spent 2 hours on the phone to BT uncovering the depths of incompetence which had led to this. Apparently the person I spoke to when I was arranging the phone and broadband to be transferred laid the address out slightly differently for the two accounts, which made them think that there was no phone line at the address where the broadband was supposed to be activated. And no one thought it would be worth contacting me to tell me that there was a problem. So now they can't connect it for another 10 days. Which, if I were actually living here, I would be exceptionally cross about.

At the end of all that, I had a killer headache and was sick. Those are the times when it's nice to have your mum living next door. So I've been sleeping most of the afternoon and now I'm at Mum and Dad's house, using their internet and feeling a bit better.

I was supposed to have gone back to Cambridge today but couldn't face the journey. I'm not sure I'm looking forward to doing it tomorrow now. I'm contemplating taking the car and smuggling it into Cambridge somewhere. I can't get a parking permit so I'll need to be a bit sneaky, but right now it seems a lot more appealing than lugging bags onto yet more trains and buses, especially on a Sunday when there's bound to be engineering works somewhere along the way.

Comments

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

BT!!!Tell me about it. The worst thing is the two hours on the phone trying to speak to a human being, getting cut off and having to start all over again...It's happened to me and I'm sorry you've had it too. So, much sympathy for that and the being sick.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

By the time I got to the end I was so cross that I refused to be put on hold. I told the man I was speaking to that he had to get the technical services on the phone for me and then call me back. Which, to be fair to him, he did. Though they were then useless...

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Also, he told me that if you press * and then 9 you'll get through to a real person straight away.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I will remember this. Hope you're feeling better soon, and good luck in getting the car to Cambridge - might there be parking available on those little streets of Grange Road?

[(Anonymous)]

Haha! I live on one of those little streets off Grange Road and it is residents only parking from 9-5. But I think that there are some which are not too far away where I might be able to leave it. I'm going to try, I think, because the trains on a Sunday are so awful.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Oops, that was me. ;)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Useful! That's a well kept secret. They have so many silly rules, like taking ten days to give you your broadband. It's surely only someone pressing a button somewhere? Grrr!

[crumplehornedki.livejournal.com]

gee you're really getting around
that's a lot of travelling, no wonder you have a headache!

it would be so tempting to smuggle your car in wouldn't it! bet you don't though ;)

stupid phone companies, I don't know why they are so incompentent when it comes to installing broadband!?

[amamama.livejournal.com]

Ouch. *get well hugs* I hope you feel better now, and that the interned is speedy and wonderful the next time you're at the Shed. Good luck getting to Cambridge, whether you go by train or car. Safe journey.