Round Table Revisited

[just_me_karen]

And so Lord of the String said unto the peoples, "Go forth anew. Seek a land you can call your own."

The people saw it was good.

So, on the last day the people said their solemn goodbyes and began the long journey to the promised new land.

And so began the new land and its people were joyous!

Welcome, to the Return of the Round Table known as...

"Round Table Revisited" (RTR)

[j*oono]

Flashe, that's so cute 😄

It's Friday again.  Didn't we just have one of those? No plans today apart from staying cool.

[nicnacs_4u]

Afternoon Ladies,

Lovely pic Flashie they do come up with some wonderful facial expressions..I`m always having a giggle at my 3..thankgoodness for grandchildren:-)

Going to youngest dd for tea tonight she makes the best pizza`s,looking forward to a pruiscutto and boccacine(sp) one..simple but delicious...hope to see him soon..

have a great weekend everyone,off to Yea tomorrow

[j*oono]

Pizza sounds good Nics.  I like making my own too and the boys reckon they prefer them to pizza shop ones. I like using just pita bread as a base.

I've got the stuff for doing some spicy lamb flatbreads on Sunday.  They are sort of like a Moroccan pizza.

[mtnlane]

Evening Stringers 

What a day!

Just reading back pizzas sound nice but we had fish and chips tonight - couldn't be bothered cooking.

Tennis over the for evening and was just listing to the ABC.  There is apparently an article in the Good Weekend Magazine in the morning about Anne Deveson.  After dealing with her son's schizophrenia about which she wrote Tell Me I'm Here, credited as being a ground-breaking book on living with mental illness, it seems doubly sad that she is now battling Alzheimers 

Is there no justice?  It reminded me of a book I read recently 'Still Alice' - heartbreaking!

[debra9275]

morning everyone

Have a great weekend with your girls Nic

Joono and Laney, I was just reading that you have more fires over there 

[flashie*]

Laney....................our eldest daughter had to read that book for part of her aged care certificate..............and she mentioned to me the other day that it was recently made into a film.................she loved it.

BBQ Birthday here today..........................and it is 13 degrees................this could be fun...................fitting 20 odd people into my modest kitchen....................wish me luck!................

[primaryaim]

Good morning Stringsters

Summer has returned......slightly

Foxtel connection has vanished ....again...phone has such interference noise it is impossible to use....again....because it rained.

Fourth time in one year.

Telstra have a lot to answer for. It is my firm belief that the system is being allowed to run down as staff are directed to installing NBN instead of upkeep. The fees I pay go up, my ability to use the service is going down and the wait time to get it fixed continually extends.

The only compensation I receive is a credit for the some of the days of no service.  No consideration for the costs associated to me when I don't have a phone (both emotionally and financially) or the saved episodes lost or special sports events I miss.  Yes....I am cross.

Flashie, have you ridden that bike yet???

Have a good day everyone.

[debra9275]

Hi Prim, a few of years ago, we had similar problems with our internet dropping out and the problem was a rusty connector in the pit out in the street. I reckon it took them about 2 years to come and fix it. Very poor customer service considering what we pay. I also don't like the way they try to convince you at first that it 's your fault something is wrong.  Before they come out they say that if the problem is found to be within your property, you will be charged for it.

another time there was a local fire and the telstra pit was full of water which also had the same effect in causing us dropouts. If it's happening to you everytime it rains, there must be water in a telstra pit somewhere

[primaryaim]

Deb, that is exactly the problem here. My beef is that they come and do a two minute fix, in one pit, where we have two pits close by, and clearly it needs more than a two minute fix.

If they calculated the cost of sending staff from Telstra and staff from Foxtel, several times each year instead of just insisting their workers actually fix it instead of applying bandaids, it would save a lot of frustration.

I need my phone for a very special reason and, I have told them that, but unless I can offer up myriads of pieces of paperwork completed by wasting time of doctors and hospitals, which is really not exactly applicable anyway, they won't attend quickly or fix it correctly. The lack of a phone is extremely stressful for every minute of every day. I feel like I live in a third world country.

[debra9275]

Prim I know what you're saying re: quick fixes.  though they did eventually find the problem was the connector in the pit, after going through our house a few times , they did not change that connector for a few years, all they did was clean the rust off the old one. it was as if they weren't going to spend a few dollars in a new connector and the problem just kept re-occuring

I wonder if it's worth you mentioning that you'll put in a complaint to the telecommunications ombudsman, you are after all, paying for a service that you're not getting. I know how much you need your phone atm