Got a text message at 01.10 this morning that was apparently from Vodafone, it said that I'd used nearly all of my data allowance. I thought that was odd and wondered if it was spam. Another one arrived at 01.14 saying I'd now used all of my data allowance! Would have to query that much later.
Out for a walk late morning, wasn't sure if it was going to rain but luckily it stayed dry. When I got home I rang my network to ask if they'd sent these messages – if so there was something very wrong. Yes they did send the messages. I spent half an hour on the phone to a woman who came up with every excuse – Did I have mobile data turned on? Yes, I only turn it off when abroad. Oh well it must be that. No it isn't, if it was this would have happened before. My wifi wasn't connected, the apps run in the background etc etc. At one point she said that 1gb was a low amount of data and did I want to increase it – no I don't, I don't need it. My phone is connected to my home wifi, I know that there's no problem with my wifi, I've hardly been away from home for seven months and I use my other devices at home, very rarely use my phone to connect to the internet.. I kept telling her that I use very little data and this was why I was phoning – I know I haven't used 1gb of data. She said that my billing date is next week and she could phone me then and we could look at the details of the data usage together. I asked her what the point of that would be, I'm perfectly capable of looking at that myself. If it tells me that on such and such a date I used however much data at 3pm, where does that get me? She actually said that it doesn't show the time of the usage. Wrong! Eventually it seemed to penetrate that something was wrong here. Hooray! If she'd listened properly in the first place we could have reached this point much more quickly. She said she would contact the technical team and did so while I hung on, she returned and said they would look into it. When I looked later at the data usage there were entries on consecutive days at 11.23, 11.24, 03.24, 13.24, 23.24, 11.24, 07.24. 01.24 etc. I hope they have enough sense to see the pattern here.
The whole conversation put me in a bad mood for ages.
I was then foolish enough to look for a cheaper quote for my car insurance and breakdown cover. No problem with that as such but when I rang to cancel the 'auto renew' on my existing policy I waited through all the usual stuff you get at the beginning of the call then the message said that if you're calling about a renewal that's not within ten days, call back. Grrr! I'd just about had enough when I rang to cancel the breakdown cover, I wasn't going to put up with all that trying to persuade me shenanigans!
Spent the remainder of the afternoon cleaning in the kitchen, it's amazing what grubby marks I could see with my reading glasses on. The sun came out at one point so did a bit of deadheading in the garden, I think the cosmos are on their way out now, they've been glorious.
Tesco delivery arrived about fifteen minutes early. In my eagerness to get some decent bread I'd ordered it twice so I now have two loaves and no room in the freezer! I might separate it into two slice bags and see where I can squeeze it in.
Had my own cheese and wine party tonight – a large glass of Pinot and some cheese and crackers, that's about as exciting as life gets these days.
Hope tody has been less frustrating for everyone else.
