No answer on BA phones this morning
Jan 7, 2010, 3:53 am
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No answer on BA phones this morning
Well, this was a first for me. The BA gold line is "closed due to bad weather." The recording suggests calling an alternate number (0787 rather than the usual 0747 number) but that also just cuts you off after the phone menu. 
Jan 7, 2010, 3:59 am
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The UK Highways agency has disabled its maps on the web site, because too many people are trying to use it. They do promise to bring it back online, presumable when it is 70 degrees and sunny.
It is strange that nationalised and pseudo-nationalised (BA) companies are worthless at times like this. I have not seen the postman for 3 days, the bins are unemptied but the UPS van seems to be operating with no problem. Someone posted that the Ocadao vans were out and about yesterday.
It is strange that nationalised and pseudo-nationalised (BA) companies are worthless at times like this. I have not seen the postman for 3 days, the bins are unemptied but the UPS van seems to be operating with no problem. Someone posted that the Ocadao vans were out and about yesterday.
Jan 7, 2010, 4:04 am
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In SW London, everything pretty much as usual yesterday. Couriers came yesterday. Boden turned up (that is a pretty SW London thing to write, granted). Tesco arrived four minutes early. Bins emptied this morning. My Guardian thumped onto the mat just before 7am yesterday and today.
But people not making it in from Maida Vale to Soho. Or so they say.
But people not making it in from Maida Vale to Soho. Or so they say.
Jan 7, 2010, 4:55 am
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In SW London, everything pretty much as usual yesterday. Couriers came yesterday. Boden turned up (that is a pretty SW London thing to write, granted). Tesco arrived four minutes early. Bins emptied this morning. My Guardian thumped onto the mat just before 7am yesterday and today.
But people not making it in from Maida Vale to Soho. Or so they say.
But people not making it in from Maida Vale to Soho. Or so they say.
Jan 7, 2010, 5:50 am
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Jan 7, 2010, 6:01 am
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If they are based in Sudbury - or if the calls are routed there Suffolk is reeling. I just spoke to my neighbours - they had more then 5cm of snow this morning again and my neighbour turned back home as the road was extremely slippery and conditions were blizzard like and he could see nothing.
Jan 7, 2010, 4:10 pm
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If they are based in Sudbury - or if the calls are routed there Suffolk is reeling. I just spoke to my neighbours - they had more then 5cm of snow this morning again and my neighbour turned back home as the road was extremely slippery and conditions were blizzard like and he could see nothing.
Jan 7, 2010, 4:37 pm
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Bracknell, Berkshire is stuffed! Our postie made it this morning, but I needed six of my neighbours to get my car out of our road. It took three hours to get to Waitrose in Wokingham and back, otherwise we wouldn't have had food, and our little car slithered and slipped all the way!
Bracknell Forest Borough Council is about to run out of grit too!
Bracknell Forest Borough Council is about to run out of grit too!