Tinkle: August 2001 - September 2006

There was a stuck on a lamp post near our house yesterday saying:



We'd not seen her since Tuesday night andshe fits the description... Bit gutted really cos she was the first thing we got when we got home after our honeymoon so she was a part of the family from day 8. I know she's only a cat but it's still sad.

Here's a few pictures in memorium:





Rest in Peace, puss.

MaFt

Still Here!

I've had a few things going wrong this last week or so and now it's time for my excuses as to why I've not posted for 8 days!

First up my wireless router that I picked up for nothing melted. Yes, melted. Dunno what happened but it stopped working and a circlular bit of melted plastic appeared in the outer casing... I opened the router up and one of the capacitors had erupted it's innards all over. Fun! It took a few days to get a decent signal from my older wireless kit. Think I'm gonna save up and get a decent wireless router soon.

Then, the cd player in Mrs-MaFt's car decided it didn't want to grip the cd's anymore. So, after stealing some torque screw-drivers from Brother-T I had the thing opened and tried to fix it but to no avail. Seems that when it couldn't grip a cd it assumed that it assumed that slot was empty so when you added another one (it holds 6) it tried to forde it into the same slot thus knackering the whole thing... Also, the tinymechanical bits that grip th cd didn't appear to want to work anymore. Hunting round I found out that Ford wanted £250 for one!! Get stuffed! Ended up getting a 1cd version off eBay for £80 including postage.

It doesn't help that Ford make their stereo's too big and with non-standard connections so the best bet was to get a Ford one. Also, the dash in Mrs-MaFt's car is all silver so we wanted a silver one to replace it with. Most are black or grey so it was 'fun' trying to find the right one!

So, there'smy excuses! I'm off down to Northampton tomorrow for an interview so I'm gonna get an early night!

See ya

MaFt

Complaint of the Week

Working in a complaints department can be pretty depressing but every-so-often you get something that makes you literally laugh outloud. Take this example: someone wrote to complain that a 'half-day jeep safari' excursion they went on was misrepresented as it was not a Jeep, but a Toyota Land Cruiser. Apparently a Toyota with a sticker saying 'Jeep' is not good enough...

To give him credit though he did have some other complaints too but the bulk of the letter appeared to be describing the difference between a Jeep and a Toyota Land Cruiser!

Ta-ra for now

MaFt

Bradford - City of Surprises

One thing I love about living in Bradford is the fact that you can drive around randomly and one second be in a busy village and then the next in the middle of nowhere with fantastic views all around.

I went for a drive earlier with Mini-MaFt up to Denholme and then after that I just took random turns (I had my Sat-Nav with me in case I got lost!). Halfway between Denholme and Oxenhope I stopped off and took these 2 photo's:





So, If you'er ever in or around Bradford just head out of town about 5 miles in pretty much any direction and you'll get some damn good scenery!

See ya

MaFt

Weird...

Dunno what happened t'other day... Tried blogging from Opera Mini on my phone but it only seems to have done the title and not the content!

Anyway, I'm temping at Thomas Cook for 8 weeks in Customer Relations - it's amazing some of the things people complain about...

Tired now, going to bed! More later

MaFt

back to work!