Archive for July 9th, 2009

9
Jul '09

Vet Visit

   Posted by: lyle    in Animals, Domestic

Today, Psycho Cat is at the vets again.

Primarily it’s another de-matt (AKA “getting shaved”) as he’s ended up totally gunked up again down his belly and left-hand-side. We don’t know where he’s been going, or what he’s been doing to get in such a state, but it’s been pretty annoying for him.

Also, for whatever reason, while he’s quite happy to let us brush out his right-hand side, attempting to do the same on the left results in a full-on attack with claws and teeth. I know, as the scratches on my right hand have only just healed. There’s a couple of lumps in the fur that seem to cause him pain – we don’t yet know if these lumps are just really tightly-packed matts of fur, or if they’re something under the skin, so that’s something that’ll be checked out at the vets at the same time.

Because the cat is such a fucking Psycho, he needs to have a general anaesthetic while he’s being done – the last time someone tried doing it without the GA, they ended up needing a visit to the doctors themselves to get stitches and a tetanus shot.

However, having the GA means that the fuzzy little bastard isn’t supposed to eat after 9pm the previous evening. And you just try telling a cat that.

So come 4am this morning, all we had was whining and whinging from Psycho Cat that he was hungry. And boy, does he make a production job of it. There’s no way to sleep through it – it’s the full-on yowls of “Hungry. Feed Me!” coupled with scratching on the wicker chair in the bedroom (conveniently also guaranteed to wake Hound up) and jumping on the bed in order to yell closer to us.

In short, he’s a little shit. It’s not even like he’s actually hungry – he just wants to have a couple of mouthfuls of food when He wants, rather than when we say he can. And if he can’t have the food, he’ll make a complete pain in the arse of himself ’til he can.

Still, he’s at the vets now, so I guess that’s punishment enough for being a little fucker last night…

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9
Jul '09

Wembley Stadium Parking Revisited

   Posted by: lyle    in Charm School, Customer Services, Cynicism, D4D™, Music, Reviews(ish), Wembley Stadium Parking

Ten days ago (roughly) I was at Wembley Stadium, and at the end of the evening had a total farce of a time getting out of the car parks.  The following morning, I sent off a complaint email to both CS Parking and Wembley Stadium’s “customer services” people.

In fairness to CS Parking, I got a response back pretty quickly from the MD of the company – impressive in itself – after which there was a fairly long email ‘conversation’ about what had happened. That all got closed off by last Friday (i.e. a week after the even) and was all fine. I still think the parking situation is

  1. Shit
  2. Unmanaged for people leaving Wembley Stadium
  3. Farcical

but I can at least now understand why it’s shit, unmanaged, and a total Grade One ClusterFuck.

Wembley Stadium’s customer services, on the other hand, have only just come back to me today, and their email is rather more of a “Not our problem, mate. Go complain to someone else” effort…

All event day parking is managed by a contracted 3rd party; City & Suburban Parking in partnership with the local authority Brent Council and the Metropolitan Police.

The official car parks were full, accommodating in excess of 3,000 cars and in addition there were approx 3,000 cars parked in unauthorised car parks and a further 1,000 vehicles collecting from the area after the concert. As a result of the high volume of traffic, there were delays clearing the car parks the main car parks were not clear until 1½ hours after the end of the concert. We do not believe that these delays are acceptable however the local roads are under the control of Brent Council, not Wembley Stadium. We will be reviewing the exit plans with Brent Council and the Metropolitan Police for future concert events.

Thank you once again for contacting us. We hope you will be able to visit Wembley Stadium again in the future.

Considering that I’ve since had comments here on D4D from people who had the same problem with Wembley Stadium’s Parking after the Take That concerts, I think it’s fair to say that you’re actually far better off if you can avoid using the car parking at Wembley Stadium.  Well, either that or make use of the “pirate” car parks around the stadium, rather than the Stadium’s piece-of-shit “official” car parking.

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