ManicMammy’s Blog

Having bought, played, lost and rediscovered plenty of Smiths’ CDs over the past many years, I spotted this CD for sale in Goldendiscs for €7 last week. Have been listening to it since.

Its fabulous- a great collection of 23 favourite Smiths’ songs on one CD.

“Bigmouth strikes again”, ” How soon is now?”, “Ask”,”Girlfriend in a coma”, “There is a light that never goes out”, “What difference does it make?”, “Stop me if you’ve heard this one before”, “Please please please let me get what I want” and “I started something I couldn’t finish”.

Brilliant lyrics and music. Go out and buy it. Nostalgia city here now. Have the kids singing along already.

Stupid rules annoy and frustrate me. These days, I don’t think families of over 6 people are that strange or occur that infrequently. Yet, as we are a family of 7,  when I try to book flights online with aerlingus.com, I am given the following message and am unable  to proceed with flight booking.

There is no obvious contact email address on the website, so I rang the online reservations phone number. I really don’t know why I bothered.

Reservations:”yeah, we dont do bookings online for over 6 people”

Me: “why?”

Reservations:”Cause, thats a group”

Me: “really? because the website says a group must be 10 people or over?”

Reservations: “yeah, you’ll have to make separate bookings”

Me: “who do I email to complain about this?”

Reservations: “you’ll have to fax or write in”

Excellent. Tip top customer service with up to date technology. Give me patience.