More straw for the back

Email from letting agent: "the amount we have received from you for his over paid rent is £34.71 less than we need it to be. The amount Ravi should be refunded is £485.15 and not £450.44."
email to letting agent: "the shortfall is probably because your original email said that the rent was overpaid by £450.44, see attached email."
telepathy in general direction of letting agent: "GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE"

In other news, have spoken to solicitor who was all smiles and cheer like someone doing her job properly. Have agreed to send her ~40 unnumbered pages received by fax in February 2000 when I was buying the place. "Yes," she says, "of course 'office copies' refers to Land Registry stuff."
telepathy in general direction of solicitor "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO THREE WEEKS AGO? NOW GO AWAY AND LEAVE ME ALONE"

Cunning plan: I will go away and leave them alone.

Minus one straw

from letting agent: "I’m so sorry but our accounts department have now told me that the first figure was right so please ignore my last email to you."
from me via email: "thank you! best news all day"
from me via telepathy "CAN HAS NO MORE EMAILS KTHX"

Visuals (light and text)

Pandora again!
Originally uploaded by tamaranth

Pandora at the RFH again. I thought it was about time I interrupted the flow of flat-related woes ...

New phone some day ....

Should my flat-selling ever come to fruition, I have Plans to acquire a new mobile. I quite fancy T-mobile's web'n'walk, but I'm also strangely tempted by BT Fusion. Any suggestions, anecdotes, recommendations, dire warnings?

The small print: In an ideal world I'd be able to use my mobile as handy camera, backup MP3 player, portable email/LJ/google ... and for texts and even calls <g> International roaming vital (and I do not expect any of the hassle I had with Virgin last year); can take or leave games; no great desire for bluetooth or connection to laptop. Oh, and ideally I wouldn't be paying much more than the ~£25pcm I'm paying Virgin now.

Phone stuff

Well, BT Fusion wins: £19 per month with 100 minutes and 50 texts and 20GB data; another £2 for 20 picture messages (19 of which, typically, will be to Flickr); £3pcm insurance; and the first three months freeeeee.

The offer allegedly runs out on Sunday, but a quick call to the helpline resulted in a note being put on my account so that I can apply when I get back and still get the current benefits.

In other news, have abandoned werk and am now ON HOLIDAY. Hopefully current status (curled up in bed 'cause it's cold, revelling in absence of scaffolding outside my window, listening to rain) is not indicative of the lovely time I will be having next week.

Barcelona Books

barcelonareading
Originally uploaded by tamaranth

swisstone set the trend, I'm only copying him ...

also Tim Moore's Spanish Steps -- in hand luggage -- and Captain Blood, as well as several Spanish vocab lists, on PDA