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Old Boar

Member
Location
West Wales
No mobile signal for over 7 weeks, endless stupid excuses by EE, and now an admission that they are decommissioning the mast. No reason. And there is no other coverage from anyone else.
And my connection to "superfast Cymru" supposedly due in 2015 has now been put back another 3 months, with an email hinting it may never happen.
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Inaccurate website addresses. E.g. Tax disc website missing a hyphen on the vehicle tax reminders issued by HMG. Isn't this just a recipe for fraudulent websites to syphon off the cash of unsuspecting punters?

Crikey, if the government can't get their own tax disc website address right in correspondence then what hope is there?
 

Old Boar

Member
Location
West Wales
Finding out that EE have lied to me - at least 3 different people told me the mast had been decommissioned. I asked for it in writing and went to see the guy who owns the land. He knew nothing. Very quick phone call back in response to email telling me they had the wrong mast even though they agreed the mast number. Do they make it up as they go along?
 

nonemouse

Member
Innovate UK
Location
North yorks
Feckin walkers that can't shut a gate behind themselves, came back this evening to find cows heading down the lane toward me, and another group running about in my new sown grass seeds
 

JJT

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
Cumbria
First combining day for a week and the water pumps gone on the combine. Then half an hour later this......
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Happens to the baler, oh and clutch has gone on the pickup. :mad:
 

rob1

Member
Location
wiltshire
Just had an awful man on the phone. Rude, aggressive and monosyllabic. Half of what he said was little more than a series of grunts.

What is wrong with some people?!?
Went to pick up some stuff today and the bloke I bought it from was no better, from the amount of stuff in his yard he must sell a fair bit but it sure as hell aint his personallity
 

smcapstick

Member
Location
Kirkby Lonsdale
Went to pick up some stuff today and the bloke I bought it from was no better, from the amount of stuff in his yard he must sell a fair bit but it sure as hell aint his personallity
I can't understand it. Good manners are free.

I had half a mind to refuse his business. He's from a place that has caused me trouble on a number of occasions, too.
 

Old Boar

Member
Location
West Wales
No internet last night. I spotted it around 8, and spent a "happy" half hour fiddling with settings, taking it off WiFi etc, then spent another half hour trying to find a number for Plusnet, as it was not in the bumf they had sent with the router. Started holding on at 5 to 9 (thank you for your call, 15 minute wait), and was thinking I must be getting somewhere at 9.45, when we had a power cut.....:mad::mad:
Turns out they had a major outage but could not be bothered to change the holding message.
Lovely message later "we apologise for any convenience this may have caused".
As part of BT, why is it so difficult to publish a phone number? :confused:
 

How is your SFI 24 application progressing?

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

This webinar will be...
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