Category: General

This morning I took the Kia Sportage for its first service.

Everything went all OK.

I like that they send you a video and explain everything about the service.

In a blog posting earlier in the year, I mentioned that I had sent an email on why the ticket offices should be saved at railway stations.

I just read that they will for the time being, which is great news.

Feels good to have an impact on something, well done to everyone else that sent emails into.

It’s crazy, well in my opinion to be thinking of Christmas food, but this afternoon we placed our food order for Christmas day and something for New Year’s Day online with Marks and Spencer.

This will be collected on the evening December 23^rd. It has always been very well organised.

Today I received an email from Trip Advisor, congratulating me on my 100^th different location review. Didn’t realise that I had done that many.

I have actually done more then 100, but have reviewed some locations more than once.

Always good to give feedback, especially the locations that respond and help other users to make up there mind about visiting the location.

Look forward to doing more reviews.

After our lovely time at the Ivy restaurant at the weekend, I decided to sign up for their Ivy rewards app and look forward to using that and visiting the restaurant again.

Is it coming home?

Unfortunately not 

Spain 1 England 0   HT 1-0

Carmona (29′)

Assist –

Caldentey Oliver (29′)

England’s wait to win a first Women’s World Cup title goes on after Spain deservedly triumphed in the final in Sydney.

The Lionesses, looking to become the first England senior side since the men’s team in 1966 to win the World Cup, suffered heartbreak after being outplayed by a Spanish side full of flair and creativity.

England’s players fell to their knees in tears at the final whistle as Spain celebrated inside their penalty area after dealing with a final corner kick in the 14th minute of nerve-wracking stoppage time.

Spain captain Olga Carmona slotted the winner past goalkeeper Mary Earps in the first half, capitalising after England’s Lucy Bronze lost possession in midfield.

England manager Sarina Wiegman, who has now lost two successive World Cup finals, introduced Lauren James and Chloe Kelly at half-time but Spain maintained control despite the Lionesses’ best efforts.

Earps, who won the Golden Glove award as best goalkeeper at the tournament, made several stunning saves, none better than from the penalty spot to deny Jenni Hermoso in the second half.

So the wait goes on for another football World Cup win, but we can be proud of this team. Spain were just too good in the final.

Felt strange that there was still almost half a day to go after watching the match.

Today I woke up and got a much better response from the Nextdoor website support.

Obviously my prompting in the previous posting had helped, as they said it was a problem with their end and hope to have it fixed soon.

You don’t expect to be told, turn off something that you are using for protection as the solution.

I had been having issues with a website I visited most days, called Nextdoor. After some support from a developer and using my own knowledge, it appeared that the VPN I was using wasn’t allowing me to see the login page. After advising the developer, this was the response I got from the support person.

“Hi Michael,
Thanks for getting back to us with this information.

We hope you can still use Nextdoor without using the VPN.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us again for future assistance.

Best,

Emmie
Nextdoor”

I wasn’t happy with that, especially every other site I logged into had no problems with.

This was my response –

“Hello Emmie

Thank you for the email, but that wasn’t the answer I was looking for.

I have no issues with any other website when using the VPN, so I expect the Nextdoor website to work with it.

Please could this be investigated and resolved.

Regards

Michael”

This morning was not a pleasant start to the day.

I have no idea what hit me, but my stomach was in a mess and I was suffering from bad diarrhoea.

No idea what caused it at all?

Thankfully I felt better later on today.