How Do I ...

[tamaranth]

... get Vodafone to provide me with a reasonable level of mobile-phone service, as opposed to preventing me from re-registering on UK Vodafone having been out of the country?
... get Abbey Business to acknowledge (and, ideally, act upon) a change of address? (It's been nine months.)
... prevent travel sickness? (Apart from by not travelling.)

Comments

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

prevent travel sickness?

- Ginger? (biscuits, pieces, beer, in chocolate)

- those stretchy wristband things that act on pressure points? (Admittedly they're supposedly more effective against morning sickness than travel sickness, but as they're only about a fiver & drug-free they might be worth a try?)

- stay at home more?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I might try the wristband things -- they sell them in Boots, don't they? Staying home isn't really an option, not unless I win the lottery. But is very very tempting ...

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Boots & All Good Chemists...

[aca.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the first two, but with travel sickness I find that something salty helps settle my stomach, combined with looking at the horizon / where you're going to stop your brane getting too confused with all the motion. A good stiff breeze from an open window always helps me, too.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting: tricky to keep anything down in the mornings (no, not morning sickness, but I'm usually feeling quite sick by the time I get to werk!) but maybe just a pinch of salt* would help.

* there's a joke to be made here but I can't think of it right now. Answers on a postcard please!

[aca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've never been one for an early breakfast. If I am feeling travel sick a bag of hulahoops is my magic elixer. Just have one every so often seems to improve how I feel no end.

Additionally lots of water is never a bad idea too (depending on length of journey and accessibility and desirability of facilities).

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

*puts up hand*

I know! I knowhow to achieve the first two. Go to their offices, and chase them around with a machete until they comply. Nicky Campbell my arse...

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Take the sim out of your phone and put it back in again? That helped when my phone decided it wasn't ever going to receive a text message ever again, for reasons known only to itself.

For travel sickness I find eating beforehand helps - not too much, just enough so that there's something in your stomach the whole time. Peppermints are good for unhappy tummies too.

For Abbey Business, I suspect firebombing may be the only solution.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I've done the SIM thing quite a lot -- I have to do it almost every day anyway, because Vodafone are crap otherwise I'm unable to send photo-messages to Flickr. I really have had enough of them! Will switch to a better provider just as soon as I next move ...

Re Abbey, you may be right. Their service is so fab in general, but in this particular area it is dire.