Friday, May 24, 2013

About to...

A text arrives from a building society:
Your mortgage offer is about to expire. Please take urgent action to confirm how you wish to proceed, or the offer will expire and all fees will be lost.
In fact, the mortgage offer does not expire for another month. The offer in question actually lasts for three months in total. So the offer is "about to expire" after 2/3 of its time. If your lifespan is three score years and ten, that is like saying that you are "about to expire" when you are 46. (I thought this would make the message sound absurd but, in a morbid frame of mind, it makes it seem entirely reasonable.)

It is not the most useful message to send. Particularly as no contact details are given in the text, and they used some clever number-cloaking system so that it is not possible to reply, phone, or indeed do anything about it.

Friday, May 03, 2013

Chasing your shadow

And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. 
Still, at least the sun's shining

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Just in time

The Wickes website has a promotion on for the Bank Holiday weekend. Maybe they were a bit quick in publishing that graphic, though.

Ah, Thurday, when we're all starting to look forward to the weekend - Aturday and Unday.