OMG wild edges, that is truly awful. Good job your guardian spirit was handy to avert total destruction! My problem with them was nowhere near life threatening, it started with a phone call to say they were cutting off my internet. I guessed this was a scam call and logged in to my account to see what was what - that's where the real problems began.
They are seemingly 'updating' their security and asked me to update my profile with extra information. I couldn't because I do not have a mobile phone! Never had one, never will as I explained to online chat person No:1, put a number in for one of your family they suggested........... The whole episode went downhill from there and I spent over an hour to get nowhere.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
That was close! When we had a new sky dish fitted the engineer said he would have to drill into the wall to fix his step ladder. Now, you can reach our dish from standing on the ground, but he had a three step ladder and had to screw it to the wall.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
When we were selling the home before last, the estate agent's chappie stuck the sign stake right through the yellow plastic gas pipe where it left the mains and ran through our garden and into the outside meter.
If he'd used his head he could've seen that he was putting it right on top of the straight line between the gas access point on the y pavement and our meter box.
I arrived home from work and as I walked along the street I smelled gas and heard a hissing sound ... looked at the sign in our garden ... looked at the meter box and the access point and put two and two together ... phoned the emergency services ... we lived on a main road into the city right by the old city wall ... it was Friday evening rush hour ... the roads around were closed and evacuated ... half of Norwich ground to a halt, and the rest of it was pretty slowed down.
The Transco chaps (as they were then) were wonderful and by the time I was able to return home my garden had been totally restored .... needless to say the estate agents were billed by Transco for all the work that was done ... they also sold my house the very next week for the asking price and charged me no fee.
It could have been a whole lot worse!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Why do companies think that everyone has a smart phone. I haven't. I have a water meter and I am using the sprinkler on my lawn which was sown during April. I'm paying for what I use so why shouldn't I. Harumph
In all my years, most of them in Scotland but I did do quite a few years penance 'down south', I have never had a brown lawn!! Never, ever - until now! Went out to do some weeding this evening and the soil is dust dry.......not happy!!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
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They are seemingly 'updating' their security and asked me to update my profile with extra information. I couldn't because I do not have a mobile phone! Never had one, never will as I explained to online chat person No:1, put a number in for one of your family they suggested........... The whole episode went downhill from there and I spent over an hour to get nowhere.
When we had a new sky dish fitted the engineer said he would have to drill into the wall to fix his step ladder. Now, you can reach our dish from standing on the ground, but he had a three step ladder and had to screw it to the wall.
If he'd used his head he could've seen that he was putting it right on top of the straight line between the gas access point on the y pavement and our meter box.
I arrived home from work and as I walked along the street I smelled gas and heard a hissing sound ... looked at the sign in our garden ... looked at the meter box and the access point and put two and two together ... phoned the emergency services ... we lived on a main road into the city right by the old city wall ... it was Friday evening rush hour ... the roads around were closed and evacuated ... half of Norwich ground to a halt, and the rest of it was pretty slowed down.
The Transco chaps (as they were then) were wonderful and by the time I was able to return home my garden had been totally restored .... needless to say the estate agents were billed by Transco for all the work that was done ... they also sold my house the very next week for the asking price and charged me no fee.
It could have been a whole lot worse!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have a water meter and I am using the sprinkler on my lawn which was sown during April. I'm paying for what I use so why shouldn't I. Harumph
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.