Baby Bandits and King Edwards

Capitalism at its best today,the elderly couple on the caravan site who I book flights for on the internet, had to cancel their 3 month winter visit to spain due to ill health,they asked me to cancel the flights with" bmibaby" so they can recover the cost of flights on their insurance,for which they need a confirmation of cancellation from the airline,it is not possible to cancel on the internet,now why would that be?because they charge £20 to send a letter of cancellation,and if you could cancel on line it would cost nothing but the paper and ink,added to which they give you a premium cost phone number to ring,(this can be avoided by googling "no more 0870")which provides free alternative numbers at normal charges.

Sheila took charge of this task as I am a little hard of hearing and prone to losing my temper with the people on the other end of the phone,the result is the two pensioners are £20 worse off through no fault of their own.

This £20 it seems will pale into insignificance in relation to the BIG MISTAKE Montana Mike has made,sending cigars to Sam the Pom through the post direct to OZ instead of to us here from whence we would put them in our luggage and no duty would be payable,it seems there will be hell to pay as well as many Australian dollars in customs duty! I do hope there will be a video recording of the arrival of the fine King Edward Invincibles without expletives deleted.

Last night was spent watching the local derby match at Oakwell between Barnsley and Sheffield United,the usual rough tackling poor football, and the result a draw, though I thought Barnsley were the better team,and it took 2 penalties granted to Utd for them to salvage something from the game.