Lunch finished around six thirty yesterday. Mustabeen a goodun. A great selection of cheeses on offer, some of which was purchased from the market near our hotel in Roma. We sat around the fire afterwards gabbing until folk gradually drifted away. We will be on the Wirral for lunch next Sunday before settling in to the Hilton opposite the Albert dock. That hotel is quite handy for the steam packet to the isle of man but unfortunately there is no sensible departure time from Liverpool on that day so we are hoiking up to Heysham instead. We get a cabin in case it is rough.
In the evening I booked a restaurant in Loches where we are staying en route south in the summer. The table was for 7pm. The acknowledgement page showed 7pm. The emailed acknowledgement and calendar entry said 8pm. The system has obviously done a time shift to CET “on my behalf”. I didn’t want an 8pm booking. It was a no reply email address so I went to the website to see if they had a contact email. No, it’s an enquiry form. I filled it in. It wouldn’t submit as one or more of my fields had an error. No it didn’t. It’s a shite web form. Sigh. Now I have to look at cancelling the table and rebooking it for an hour earlier to see if that works. I bet it doesn’t. Gemini found me an email address so I sent it there.
In a similar vein I sent an enquiry to book a table for lunch at the test match in June. The first one went through ok but trying to do the same thing for the following day the dates looked to be completely to pot. Sigh. Then I checked. My first booking had been for the wrong day. It was me that was wrong. We once turned up at Newcastle train station for a train home to Lincoln but the tickets kept being rejected at the turnstile. Upon investigation I’d booked the return tickets for the same day as we went there. Had to buy three new full fare std class tickets that were more expensive than the advanced fare first class tickets we had originally had. Oh the shame of it! Schoolboy error. Ya never learn do you.
Fox: 04:40 22nd March.