Tag Archives: Dr Johnson

British Telecom – if you have a problem with service do not waste your time calling – write

In February 2006 I had to write to the chairman of British Telecom Sir Christopher Bland. I rent a handset from BT which went on the blink. BT came round and sorted out the problem and then tried to stiff me with a bill for £134.38 The problems leading up to my letter were vexatious to put […]

London Buses and the skill requirements of some of the drivers

Sunday morning at the bust stop and the same problem repeats it self like a radish salad. Buses as you know always seem to travel, like secret police man in the former Eastern Bloc, in threes and regulate themselves at the bus stops. However if you want the bus behind the one in front you are as Dr Johnson said of […]