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Diary Of An Anti-Tory Protestor – Part 5
“Remember Thatcher’s Victims”, George Square, 17th April 2013 They planted Thatcher today. Actually, I think they burned her. Either way, I do not care, and I suspect neither does she. The BBC and most...
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Theatre – Having Fun With Your Five-A-Day
I have been involved with the theatre for most of my life, at some level or other, and have worked backstage professionally or semi-professionally since I was legally old enough to do so. The...
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Pubs, Offensive Shirts, And Invisible Children.
A letter to a national pub chain, after I was asked to remove a particular item of clothing in one of their bars. Nobody has previously complained about the garment in question, and so I curiously...
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Dubious Claims To Fame – 22
I logged in to my Twitter account the other day, prior to setting up a dedicated account for this blog in order to try and reach a wider readership. So far, the blog page is being followed by ten...
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Turning Tricks, And Turns Of Phrase
There is very little that is more awkward than your boss, who is roughly ages with you, trying to communicate to a roomful of employees but becoming stuck between talking on their level, and being...
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“Uberstardom”– Life Imitating Art
In 2008, I was working on a pantomime in Glasgow. One of the actors, a well-known face from our national soap, had previously done a panto there in 2006, the year I started. There was a great...
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Feeding Back And Being Fed.
My time on the Work Programme has come to an end, after two fruitless years. I was part of the first wave of people to be referred to them, and so am among the first to leave. My time there has not...
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Objectively Spaced-Out On Art And Images.
I have a friend who studied the history of art, in her American home state. While chatting online, she mentioned that she was having issues with an assignment, and I offered to help her with it. Given...
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Instrumental Presents Of Mind.
Except where necessary, I try to avoid name-dropping while writing these blogs. The many dubious claims to fame are deliberately chosen for being precisely that – dubious. Some of them are extremely...
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T-Mobile, Triggering Misery.
Account Number [redacted] Dear T-Mobile/EE/Everything Everywhere, I wish to complain about the service you almost provided while I was contracted to you, and the nightmarish circumstances you created...
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Substandard Sandwiches.
My tongue-in-cheek letter of complaint to the local supermarket. Submitted via their website. I enjoy the range of fresh sandwiches that is generally available from my local store. A particular...
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Creative Correspondence – A Reply.
My previous post detailed a letter of complaint to my local supermarket, written principally for my own amusement and regarding a sandwich I bought which turned out to be stale. They replied with a...
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Baguette Out And Don’t Come Back.
This is a light-hearted letter of complaint. Read the reply I received here. Dear [national supermarket chain], I have previously complained about the sandwich department of my local store, a letter...
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Baguette Out Of Jail Free. (A Reply)
I bought a supermarket sandwich which purported to contain beef, but which revealed itself to be mislabelled and instead held only tuna fish. This is the second time I have had an issue centred around...
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A Vision Of Dreadful Customer Service.
Dear Mark Ross, Chief Executive, Thank you for sending me some kind of in-house magazine by post. I note in your introduction that, as a company, you value my feedback. Please spare me the effort of...
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Like A Virgin, Train Cancelled For The Second Time.
Virgin Trains cancelled my travel to Preston, UK, and that complaint can be read here. The following refers to that letter, their response, and the cancellation of a second train four days later. Dear...
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Customer Dissatisfaction Is Virgin Territory
Having sent this email and received a reply so brief as to be almost non-existent, which also continued in its failure to address anything I had said, I wrote back without particularly holding back:...
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A Delivery Company Who Just Don’t Deliver.
Dear UK Mail, What an absolutely splendid job you are doing, of delaying my parcels by not delivering them and then – when queried – of dishonestly claiming to have attempted delivery. I trust this...
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