Bayham Abbey

Back at the end of April, I took a visit to Bayham Abbey on the Kent and East Sussex border.



Bayham Old Abbey is an English Heritage property, located near Frant, East Sussex, England. Founded c. 1207 through a combination of the failingPremonstratensian monasteries of Otham and Brockley, Bayham functioned as an abbey until its dissolution in the 16th century. The ruins were partially modified in the late 18th century, to provide a better landscape feature during landscaping of the new Bayham Abbey mansion park, and were donated to the state in 1961. (www.wikipedia.org)

Yesterday's beer of the day, Wot's Occuring

Great Oakley - Wot's Occuring

Only 3.9% ABV but quite a fruity citrus taste to it.

Great Oakley Brewery






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Today's Beer of The Day

Today's beer of the day is Gales HSB at 4.8 ABV.


This has become the new Thursday lunchtime pint!


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Beer of the day - Chalk Stream

Chalk Stream by the Ramsbury Brewery. This is 5% but a very rounded premium ale which is very smooth and very morish.
Well worth an afternoon session on.
Not a good lunchtime drink unless you have an understanding boss.

Ramsbury Brewery





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Zelda Skyward Sword

Zelda Skyward Sword trailer, due out later this year.

Alien ladybird Slug Hybrid

As found in the bath earlier at a B&B.
The tail was wiggling!! I half expected Sigorney Weaver to pop in for a look.




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Opus Credit Cards

Oh and Opus Cards run by Lloyds Banking Group, thank you so very f@#king much in issuing cards to a secondary card holder who has not been authorised for 5 years, abusing confidential customer information, losing a payment of £455, never calling back or escalating matters and generally being complete 'c u next Tuesdays' you utter f%#king nob jockeys!

--- update 7 Dec 2010
The threat of using a small claims court summons to recover the funds 'may' have changed the 'takes 14 days minimum to find a payment' to actually being located and credited overnight. Don't pat yourselves on the back Opus Cards you are still complete shitbags!

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Caption Competition

A favourite pic of mine back from an article in The Sun last year.
Ed Spiliband
Sums up the Labour Party pretty much at the moment.
Captions anyone?

Buzz Lightyear Drinking Cup Rudeness

Doing the rounds on Twitter.....

TO INFINITY AND BEHIND!!!

Citibank, Lloyds Banking Group fail!

I have a citicard credit card. At the moment Citibank have decided to dispose of this portfolio and retain egg credit cards which they purchased a while back. My card is being sold/transferred to Opus cards managed by HBOS arm of Lloyds Banking Group. The transfer happens on the 21st November.

Me, Mr X is the account holder and Mrs X used to be an additional card holder but no longer. So Imagine my surprise when Opus send Mrs X a letter containing two cards, one for her as the main account holder (she's not!) and one for me as an additional card holder (I'm not!).

So several issues here. As citi are still the card provider I ring them the see what has gone on. Not our fault contact Opus. I pointed out to them that they released information about an obsolete card holder. The Indian call centre had no escalation procedure, line management to raise my concern. I managed to get the telephone number of Citicard/Egg data protection officer but as I am an outgoing customer the cock has not replied to my voicemail.

-- update --
Citibank DPO had been trying to call me back but my phone had been the issue, not routing calls. He was very helpful but all focus is now on Opus as to why they transposed the data they received!

Opus call centre does not open until 21st November, leaving me no method to raise concerns of potential fraud, credit file misuse and data protection violations with them. I tried a different tack of contacting BoS credit card call centre but they have no information until 21st and advised me to contact Citi with regards to why HBOS had sent incorrect cards?? What the f...?

In summary, Citibank you are US cocks of the highest order with no regard for UK or EU data privacy law or any sense of customer service. The US moans about BP oil spill but wraps Britain into it. But when you send out fucking google cars harvesting private data in every country that's ok is it??

Opus/Lloyds Banking Group you are total cocks for engaging with future customers but not providing feedback channels to your communications!




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