the revolution is not bloody here

One of the lesser side-effects of being locked in dispute with talktalk is the slow erosion of pleasure in hearing what used to be a tune that I used to quite like - Thunderclap Newman's 'Something in the Air'. Listening to hours of the anyodyne cover version of it interspersed with a self satisfied woman lying about how important my call is to her is a very special sort of torture. 50 minutes of it the other day did for me, really.

I spent another hour this morning going through the call-and-get-cut-off process, and listening to it in between contemplating crying (pointless) and throwing things (pointless and ultimately expensive). In the end decided that my sanity would benefit from some time away from the telephone. A nice shower. The tail end of 'Sounds of the Sixties' on Radio 2. (I know. I am desperately untrendy.)I walked away from the computer and entered the gentle haven of my bathroom.

I showered, and as I began to wrap myself in soft towels what should come on the radio? Yes. Thunderclap Newman.

~twitch~

beat you down at cool canasta

I sent a sarcastic email last night to Talk Talk technical services, suggesting that they might like to actually read the previous mail I sent. I don't for a moment imagine that it'll make any difference, but it made me feel better to spread the ire around a bit.

In other news: Leaking roof, unplastered front bedroom, falling plaster in kitchen, thin layer of plaster dust covering the whole house, concrete monstrosity in back garden. I tell myself to just accept it all and to accept the fact that it all takes at least four times longer to fix than my patience allows for. This philosophical approach is generally effective for about a week, so I suspect I'll be banging my fists against the (crumbling) walls again by next weekend.

I do at least have taps that turn on and off now, and the damp patch that resulted from the bath not being sealed in properly doesn't seem to have grown since I re-sealed it. [Probably because I haven't been able to use the bath all week?]

The connection has dropped four times since I began writing this. Talk Talk still suck.