Well it looks like the lake levels at Watermead are finally coming down albeit slowly. It got pretty high at one point as you can see from the pictures below. The bollard lights at the Piazza were in the water, the small bandstand on the small lake was cut off and park benches by the Riviera were in the water.

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The amazing this is there is still a hosepipe ban because of the water shortage!

I don’t know whether it is the time of year or whether I’ve been singled out or just plain unlucky but on one of my email accounts I am currently getting about 3500 spam emails everyday.

I’m also getting a lot of spam comments on this blog and may have deleted some genuine ones by accident.

It’s really starting to piss me off and takes a lot of time to filter out the junk from the legitimate messages. I think I’ve managed to sort out a way of getting rid of them but only time will tell if it works.

I have a site that according to Google Sitemaps gets crawled regularly. In the last 90 days it has crawled on average 2209 pages per day.

Now here’s the thing. I don’t get any visits from Google Search and Google has no pages listed in its index for the site.

So why is Googlebot crawling the pages and waiting my bandwidth?

We flew out to Prague at the weekend from Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 and went through the security section reserved for Business Class travellers.

There were no queues there which was good but when I walked through the metal detector I set it off. Now this normally doesn’t happen to me and I said to the security guard about this and then realised I had my mobile phone still in my pocket. I gave him the mobile phone and he put it through the X-ray machine but didn’t ask me to walk through the metal detector again.

So just how safe are we? Okay we don’t look like terrorists but then again can you tell by someone’s looks alone?

I’m normally quite a calm person but I am being driven to despair by TalkTalk and their crap customer service and inability to do even simple things like stop hasling me for money I don’t owe them.

I received a letter today telling me they were going to place a restriction on my service until I pay an outstanding balance. Well good luck as I don’t have your broadband and haven’t had it since the 5th September.

On calling them they agree that according to the notes on my account I am due a credit but this hasn’t been raised. Their Credit Control department tell me they can’t do anything so I have to speak to customer services. After waiting on the line for 20 minutes listening to the same old tune over and over again and feeling my blood pressure rise by the minute I gave up.

I’ve given up with TalkTalk. I’m not even going to try and call them agian. Sue me if you like, you won’t be getting a penny out of me!