... And its been written by me!
That's right, today marks the official release of my new ebooklet Get Real.
Its the first thing I've published for the escape artist community and I'm really quite excited about it.
To find out more please go to www.roslynwalker.com/forsale, I really hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Talk Talk... Several reasons to go elsewhere
.... And welcome back.
For those that have jumped straight in to this post I recommend going back and reading the one before this otherwise it may not make too much sense.
For those that have just come from there, welcome to the second installment.
There is a big reason why it has taken me a month after getting an address to finally get back online and that big reason is Talk Talk.
My wife, being the organised gal that she is, contacted Talk Talk about installing a phone line in to our new house so we could get broadband. They told her it would only take 3-weeks for an engineer to come round.
Now ordinarily 3-weeks would be a long time. But since Christmas and New Year was in between I felt 3-weeks was ok. Not great, but could be worse.
3-weeks came and 3-weeks went. And then when it had been nearly 4-weeks an engineer finally arrived.
Oh, that was after they'd given me the very specific time of "he'll be round at some point between 1pm and 6pm". Great, I've got to wait in all day.
And wait in I did.
He arrived at 5pm.
The engineer had a look around and said "sorry mate, I can't do anything today because its dark and I can't climb up the telegraph pole in the dark." with that he left.
Great. What a waste of an afternoon.
We then phone Talk Talk and they tell us the engineer had reported the visit as a non-entry. So basically said he couldn't gain access to my property. A complete lie because he did come in and we had a lovely chat about brandy of all things.
They also said the next appointment for an engineer would be in a further 2 weeks. 2 WEEKS!!!
To cut a long story short my wife (what would I do without her?) contacted O2. OMG these guys are brilliant.
They too couldn't send an engineer round for another 2 weeks, but in the meantime they have supplied us with mobile broadband. Which brings me to today, back online thanks to the geniuses at O2.
Oh and the line rental + broadband was cheaper every month than Talk Talk anyway. So I can safely say that Talk Talk have been well and truly cancelled.
For those that have jumped straight in to this post I recommend going back and reading the one before this otherwise it may not make too much sense.
For those that have just come from there, welcome to the second installment.
There is a big reason why it has taken me a month after getting an address to finally get back online and that big reason is Talk Talk.
My wife, being the organised gal that she is, contacted Talk Talk about installing a phone line in to our new house so we could get broadband. They told her it would only take 3-weeks for an engineer to come round.
Now ordinarily 3-weeks would be a long time. But since Christmas and New Year was in between I felt 3-weeks was ok. Not great, but could be worse.
3-weeks came and 3-weeks went. And then when it had been nearly 4-weeks an engineer finally arrived.
Oh, that was after they'd given me the very specific time of "he'll be round at some point between 1pm and 6pm". Great, I've got to wait in all day.
And wait in I did.
He arrived at 5pm.
The engineer had a look around and said "sorry mate, I can't do anything today because its dark and I can't climb up the telegraph pole in the dark." with that he left.
Great. What a waste of an afternoon.
We then phone Talk Talk and they tell us the engineer had reported the visit as a non-entry. So basically said he couldn't gain access to my property. A complete lie because he did come in and we had a lovely chat about brandy of all things.
They also said the next appointment for an engineer would be in a further 2 weeks. 2 WEEKS!!!
To cut a long story short my wife (what would I do without her?) contacted O2. OMG these guys are brilliant.
They too couldn't send an engineer round for another 2 weeks, but in the meantime they have supplied us with mobile broadband. Which brings me to today, back online thanks to the geniuses at O2.
Oh and the line rental + broadband was cheaper every month than Talk Talk anyway. So I can safely say that Talk Talk have been well and truly cancelled.
So much to tell you and so little time...
Its the middle of January of the New Year and I'm finally back online!!!
So much has happened between my last post and this one its difficult to know where to begin. I guess the start is as good a place as any.
As regular readers of my blog will know I moved house at the end of October. When I say moved house, what I actually mean is I packed up all my stuff in to a massive van and left my flat in London... And then unloaded all my stuff in to a storage unit in Birmingham.
That's where my stuff stayed until the 20th December when my wife, the saint that she is, found us a house and moved all our stuff for the second time out of the storage unit and in to the new place. Somehow (and this is knowledge known only to wives) she managed to get everything unpacked and sorted out in time for Christmas!
I'm talking a lifetime of magical paraphernalia, all the junk that every couple thats been together for a decade seems to collect, furniture and other nonesense all taken from the unit to the house and packed away. And done WITHOUT OUR VAN because I had it!
Not only that, but she also managed to set up the Christmas tree and erect all the other decorations as well as getting down the shops and buying all the Christmas food. And I'm talking big traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
Oh, and she continued to work 9-5 whilst doing all this.
Talk about legendary.
Where was I?
A good question. Whilst all this was happening I was working with my good friend Chris Williams (who's known to the world as Harley the Clown) at a grotto in Liverpool. And yes, before you ask I was playing the jolly fat man himself. Chris, if anyone's interested, was an elf.
We started in November and over 8000 children later we finished on Christmas eve.
For those unfamiliar with the geography of the UK, Liverpool is a 2-hour drive away from Birmingham when traffic is good. Christmas eve isn't that well known for having good traffic and so it took me closer to 4 hours before I got home.
But get home I did and my loving wife had created the perfect Christmas.
Hang on a minute, Christmas was nearly a month ago. Why's it taken you so long to get online. Well that's the topic of my next rant. In fact it's such an important rant that I'm going to give it its own space.
See you in a few moments.........
So much has happened between my last post and this one its difficult to know where to begin. I guess the start is as good a place as any.
As regular readers of my blog will know I moved house at the end of October. When I say moved house, what I actually mean is I packed up all my stuff in to a massive van and left my flat in London... And then unloaded all my stuff in to a storage unit in Birmingham.
That's where my stuff stayed until the 20th December when my wife, the saint that she is, found us a house and moved all our stuff for the second time out of the storage unit and in to the new place. Somehow (and this is knowledge known only to wives) she managed to get everything unpacked and sorted out in time for Christmas!
I'm talking a lifetime of magical paraphernalia, all the junk that every couple thats been together for a decade seems to collect, furniture and other nonesense all taken from the unit to the house and packed away. And done WITHOUT OUR VAN because I had it!
Not only that, but she also managed to set up the Christmas tree and erect all the other decorations as well as getting down the shops and buying all the Christmas food. And I'm talking big traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
Oh, and she continued to work 9-5 whilst doing all this.
Talk about legendary.
Where was I?
A good question. Whilst all this was happening I was working with my good friend Chris Williams (who's known to the world as Harley the Clown) at a grotto in Liverpool. And yes, before you ask I was playing the jolly fat man himself. Chris, if anyone's interested, was an elf.
We started in November and over 8000 children later we finished on Christmas eve.
For those unfamiliar with the geography of the UK, Liverpool is a 2-hour drive away from Birmingham when traffic is good. Christmas eve isn't that well known for having good traffic and so it took me closer to 4 hours before I got home.
But get home I did and my loving wife had created the perfect Christmas.
Hang on a minute, Christmas was nearly a month ago. Why's it taken you so long to get online. Well that's the topic of my next rant. In fact it's such an important rant that I'm going to give it its own space.
See you in a few moments.........
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