So Amy Rankin… We really didn’t get very far.  We asked her to send us a contract.  “Please just do this one thing and we will call you back.”  It was obvious that she had done a grand total of NOTHING since we last spoke to her.

I got a call yesterday from a very polite Indian lady informing me that there is an outstanding balance of £156 on my account.  I wonder whether they are actually in posession of a random number generator!!  I have no idea what this bill relates to, so I told her to cancel it and not send it out because we are in the middle of a dispute.  I am not sure she was able to do that, so who knows what will happen next.

I have been after a pink bike for a while.  When I purchased my last bike a few years ago, I wanted a pink bike called Bella.  She was beautiful but, according to JT, not sensible.  I was persuaded to buy a silver grown up’s bike but sadly it was a bit of a disaster.  The shop I bought it from set it up really badly, so the brakes, despite being fixed four times, have always been lethal.  They nearly throw you over the handlebars!!  Also, it is really clunky to ride.  I just wasn’t very happy with it, but have ridden it a lot.

Anyway, finally I have found a very good cause for my bike and am allowed to save up for the bike that I would really like.  A pink beach cruiser!!  I love cycling, but I am not really a mountain biker nowadays, I like to cycle across town and I think that this bike will be perfect:

Isn’t she beautiful??  I am so excited!!

Ok well the latest is….  Amy Rankin is supposed to be dealing our complaint (she is supposed to be at a senior level).  She was supposed to be sorting everything out including compensation.  After two weeks of no telephone calls we rang her to find out that she was on holiday for a week (I am not sure if I even believe this).  She had also neglected to tell us this.
Today, we rang her and she was “on the  phone”.  We were promised a call and here we are at 3:30pm on the phone trying to get hold of her again.

In the meantime I have been sent another bill.  £19.98.   We are supposed to pay £11.50 per month.

Mark is on the phone to her now and she doesn’t seem to have a clue who we are.

No sign of a contract.

Hello all!  I do apologise for the lack of posting of late, life has been a trifle busy…

We are now settled in our new ‘flouse’ although there are many boxes to unpack.  However, we are already loving the area.  We have Moka (coffee shop) just downstairs along with some brilliant restaurants, antique shops and cool furniture shops.  We are a stone’s throw from two great pubs and Montpellier Gardens (not to mention the Montpellier shops!)

I will post some photos as soon as we look a bit more tidy.  No major disasters yet apart from the dishwasher leaking across the floor and the fridge not working!!

We were chuffed to get our entire deposit back from the old place too….

In other news:  Pink Sky are branding and packaging a Spanish cider company!  As you do.  I look like a bit of an alcoholic at present, as my desk is full of cider bottles.  I don’t even like cider but Mark assures me that this cider is delicious.

We are also putting together three further quotes for other exciting ventures.  I was so tired today that my eyes were stinging

Twinkle is doing very well.  As I type, she is sitting at the end of my bed.  She can’t stand on her hind legs or jump yet but she gets stronger every day.

I opened a packet of love hearts this morning and was confused to find that the first one said “Granny P”…?!  I looked online to find out whether this was a romantic message that only 7 year-olds would understand (I feel old?!)  and found this interesting answer:

There was a nationwide competition to have your own personal message immortalised on a Love Heart.

The winner chose the following messages

Think Pink, Joyful Jo, Granny P, Me Julie Best Mum, Juicy Jessie, I Luv Alan, Happy Harry, Heart Baby, Kin of U Home and Mermaid Eloise.

Granny P was my mother Anne Peterson from Greenock, my daughter Jo always called her Granny P. My wife and i had twins boys, sadly after my mother passed away . My Wife entered the competition thinking it would be nice for Jo and a memory for the twins, Jack & Dyaln that Granny P never knew.

So that answers ‘who is Granny P ‘ a kind and loving mother & Granny who is greatly missed

Calum