Someone's jam explodes in a cupboard; someone shits them self in Australia; someone's longterm boyfriend leaves them; someone does the equivalent of shitting themself in Wales; someone else's fruit trees are not quite right this year; someone's husband dies; someone is getting over a life-changing disability, or getting over the life- changing disability of a loved one, and I get a text message at 4.00am from a bank telling me that I have yet to pay an outstanding credit card bill this month.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Life is sweet, sweet, sweet.
4 a.m. The swine.
ReplyDeleteI would have said stronger, but probably best not.
DeleteArnt we entertaining ?
ReplyDeleteIt's not fair
ReplyDeleteWhat's not - if anything?
DeleteMy credit card bill (for £10) was due on a Saturday. I forgot and went in first thing on Monday morning to pay it. They charged me £12 for being late. (I always pay it off in full.)
ReplyDeleteThat is the sort of thing that does make me think my glass is half empty. Usually I make myself think it is half full - life is too short to be otherwise and there is always someone in a worse position than you.
If it were not for you, Weave, I would have been gone from here ages ago. I don't know why, but there it is. Re credit card charges, my idiot reasoning is that if you are going to be charged £12 for £10, the you might as well make it £20,000, but I am an idiot.
DeleteThe more I think about it, the more I am convinced that Weave keeps all our feet on the ground.
DeleteSometimes. Some of us have one foot in the grave, but she is up to her ankles.
DeleteI'm new here, but I'm addicted to the Weaver. I check up on her and all you in her list when I can't sleep here on Long Island and now that I've found you, I want to wake up in the middle of the night just so I can drop in and see whose garden is getting rained on, whose crochet project is done, whose sun dried tomatoes have exploded in the pantry. I find you all fascinating. And hilarious. And adorably evil. My kind of people.
DeleteWhats up with you tonight?
ReplyDeleteWhat's up with you this morning?
DeleteYou guys kill me. In America, that's a compliment.
DeleteChaos theory?
ReplyDeleteTurning the tables - I've just sent, "Have I had a PPI with you?", email to two banks, courtesy of the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) online advice service. Feels great even if I never have had, but worth a try. To be honest I thought that the FCA was another scam until I checked it out. Now waiting for my windfall - hahaha.
I know I am owed PPI claims, but my bank/s refuse to tell me the number of my old cards. Cunts.
DeleteI don't understand a word of this, but I'm sure in Britspeak it's what we call (in America) a knee-slapper.
DeleteBanks/Credit Card Agencies are using Asian call centre companies these days to chase customers, which is most likely why you had an early text.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's because they are swine.
DeleteI know that you are right, Joanne. Heron is 3000 years out of date. It comes from choosing to live in Ireland.
DeleteLie back and think of Irma.
ReplyDeleteIrma la Douche. Those were the days, eh?
DeleteIt took me a while. But I finally got it. You guys are AWFUL.
DeleteWho shit themselves?
ReplyDeleteSHAT, not shit. Get it right.
DeleteHi Tom.
ReplyDeleteHello Donna.
Delete🍂🦉Enjoy September Tom!🍁🎃
ReplyDeleteI am absolutely LOVING this September here. Leaves still on the trees and a balmy climate. I sat outside a cafe today drinking tea, and it was a holiday for the price of a cup of tea.
DeleteReading your comment onmy comment I must ask - are you trying to encourage me to spend my money? Also - are you going to continue to quote Keats throughout the season???
ReplyDeleteNo, but Cher (my garden) may do both.
DeleteDude. You wrote poetry here, and it is beautiful. And I really hate poetry...well done.
ReplyDeleteI meant that I usually dislike "poetry", but I loved the musicality of this.
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