What's on my Workdesk Wednesday

Morning folks....it's Wednesday and time to play along at WOYWW....the desk is a bit of a mess this morning...well and truly abandoned last night after a last minute crafting session and what started off as bit of a quickie post for me has turned into a full blown saga....with a rant thrown in....

once again I was skidding in by the seat of my pants to make a card for a very special someone.....yes my sweet furry boy is 4 today....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY

xxx

he has changed so much from his hooligan puppy days followed by the terrible twos and the tiresome threes....suddenly he has grown up into a lovely young man with just the occasional blot on his copybook...and just like his Mum he doesn't do half measures.....our motto is if you're going to be in big trouble you may as well have fun getting there and life would be so boring if we all behaved all of the time....he's such a character and I wouldn't have it any other way.

So after opening his card and I don't think he's impressed... it's just another card from the cubbyhole.....he got stuck into the goodie parcels but obviously dogs don't get as excited as us girls when it comes to birthdays.....he's now fast asleep on the sofa and time for me to do a quick tidy up in the cubbyhole.   Desk all cleaned up and ready for the next project.....

this book shaped box caught my eye the other day at Hobbycraft....great for storing clear stamps and I am going to have a go at decorating it with some fab canvas that my lovely buddy Anne gave me, stamps and Alterations from Lord Tim of Holtz...you know the one and only King of Distress....just as well he doesn't read my blog...I'm sure he would be mightily distressed to learn that I have had these stamps for ages and they have never seen ink but I aim to put that right today and after our morning stroll  I plan to have some fun.

I am stuck in the house today waiting for the BT engineer to arrive and what on earth have BT done to get my dander up.....if you've got a minute or two to spare I'll get the latest saga off my chest.   Went to use the phone yesterday and no dial tone but my broadband was still working so after trying different sockets and changing the ASDL filter I came to the conclusion the fault lay with the phone.  Headed into town to get a replacement which didn't work either and being of highly super intelligence I put 2 and 2 together and came up with the answer - it must be a fault with the line and all I need to do is report the fault to BT - simples you might think - don't you believe it - what a palaver - went online to find a number to call with my mobile but of course being BT I had a sneaky suspicion it would probably be a marathon....why can't they just have the numbers you need to call clearly displayed instead of having to search through the whole website and once I eventually found it.....was it a piece of cake...what do you think.

I was now listening to..surprise...surprise a recorded message....enter my telephone number...press 1...if this is your number press 1 and on it went question after question followed by press 1 but this really took the biscuit...."did I know that I could go online and troubleshoot to find the cause of my problem and fix it".....I don't think so Mrs.....if I have a fault with my phone...I am paying you a line rental charge each month so it's your job to find the fault and fix it.  Eventually I got a call back to say that there is a fault on the line and I await....THE BT ENGINEER....I feel so sorry for these guys because they are right in the front line and are the ones that get all the flack from frustrated customers but I promise I will be on my best behaviour and be nice....that is just as long as he manages to fix it.

Hugs Kath xxx