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Hifi - in your situation 'video-star' and all that - must be very frustrating.

I get so ticked off with these companies who advertise their service as 'all-singing-dancing', only to find that few people have it or can actually get it - regardless of what you might be paying. > BT's current TV ads are suggesting that their latest service/modem doo-dah is the bees-knees. By upgrading to their top package (due to them shouting at me for over-using my allowance on the lower (cheaper) package) I had assumed that I was going to be getting this sooper-dooper wotsit service. Not so! > It will only be when they - BT- decide to 'upgrade' and make provision through my exchange. If and when they ever do it is totally outside of my control. Meanwhile, I can just keep paying the bill, even if my service is affected at 'peak' times! Such a con! >

Hope the sun has been shining for you.

I like the butter caramel.

Not sure if that is what it is called. But....... for example, sometimes I watch a You Tube something-or-other, and it plays continuously. At other times, it keeps stopping and - well - catching up with itself before continuing to play. I know what I mean - just hope someone else does. :-[

What do I need to set or change to get it to play continuously?

I too would feel a bit miffed that your kindness and honestly hadn't been acknowledged. It never ceases to amaze me how slefish/thoughtless people can be.

Four years ago, when I bought this house, I discovered that my council tax band was higher than the bungalow next door to mine - both houses identical! I was in Thailand at the time, so communication was a tad difficult - but I managed to get through to an ombudsman and present my case for getting the tax band lowered. Eventually, after weeks of paperwork being submitted, emails flying around etc. it was all sorted and mine was lowered. I could have left it there, but decided to contact my estate agent and get him to pass the information to the people from whom I bought the house. They had moved to a village 2 miles away. I had discovered that they could in fact make a retrospective claim, and I made notes as to how they should do it.

I never heard another word about it - no thank you, nothing etc. Anyway, after my return from Thailand and I moved into the house, I was talking to my neighbour. He had met up with the former owners, who had in fact followed all of my advice and put in a claim - they recedived nearly £3,000 back paid for 'overpayment'! I still haven't had a thank-you - not even when she came to the house some months afterwards to collect something that had been delivered here in error. To say I was stunned is an understatement. I was so cross, I just wish I hadn't bothered at all. As they say, 'There's nowt so queer as folk!'.

I received this today - made me cry - the bit at the very end! How sad am I? My kids left home years ago!

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