tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25784590779890378132024-03-05T14:58:35.237+00:00 Suzy Bowler ~ food writer"Of all the fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing." ~ Hilaire BellocSudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-5254786798538689662017-02-04T19:49:00.000+00:002017-02-04T19:49:47.667+00:00My new homes ...<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Hi,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Suzy x</span>Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-22614663148845626432015-02-06T11:33:00.000+00:002015-02-06T12:21:33.644+00:00What do you actually know about Aphrodisiacs?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right, time to get this poor neglected blog back into the
limelight (ish). A while ago I published
a little ebook of aphrodisiacs and here is a quiz, just for fun, based on that
volume! Don’t worry if you haven’t read it, you can do that later! Here goes ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>~ The longer the better<br />~ A good 6 inches<br />~ 11cm<br />~ 125mm</i><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-44155943548574281652014-04-07T15:50:00.000+01:002014-04-08T07:53:16.604+01:00A Gruelling Weekend on the Settee!<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span>
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to (no, not that) finish the next book in a series I am writing on useful key
recipes without the distraction of programmes about the war, power tools and
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the settee” even when I rather sportingly sit on a hard wooden chair at the
table. He is proud of my having had a
real book really published and of my other writings but he doesn’t understand how
physically hard work it is. I do – it
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly the useful programme. I have been experiencing all sorts of eye
problems recently from itching, blurring and soreness to sudden pains like a
needle stabbing my eye. Of course this
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I have not only realised, but been told over and over again, that I
should get some exercise and I agree that sitting about all day, even if I am
waggling my fingers a lot, is probably not enough activity. On the other hand it is pouring with rain, I
don’t drive and where we live has nothing much to look at. Also, of course, I am busy thinking and
writing. So I have made a promise to
myself and so far so good. Every time I
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for me but I recommend that you look into them further before having a go. Certainly
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standing tall and straight and looking forward I drawn my head back and bring
my chin down slightly. When I do this I can feel the top of my spine
stretching. I do this ten times for a
count of 10 each time just after I’ve just gone up and down the stairs as
mentioned above. My physio told me this
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at my sides I roll my shoulders kind of backwards and downwards whilst squeezing
my shoulder blades together. Then for good measure I pull my chin back as
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book I have just uploaded to Amazon (<a href="http://suzybowler.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/kindle-books.html" target="_blank">see my previous post about how to do this</a>) is the third in a series I am writing, <span style="background: white;">each book giving one key recipe with numerous ways to
use it and lots of other useful information.
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gives 50 recipes for soup plus others for stocks, garnishes and accoutrements
and looks like this - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/almost-Recipe-Youll-Bowlers-Recipes-ebook/dp/B00JJ1Q0WS/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1396939677&sr=1-1&keywords=SOUP+%28almost%29+the+Only+Recipe+You%27ll+Ever+Need+%28Suzy+Bowler%27s+Key+Recipes%29" target="_blank">look inside here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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my “<i>219 Cooking Tips & Techniques you
might find useful</i>” (it’s a big sexy 77p on Amazon but you might as well
have it for nothing!) <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">pop over <i>to Sudden Lunch! </i></a>and click the link in the
sidebar. There is an option to sign up
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the wintery weather, I have been playing with sorbets and granitas. It’s hell
writing cookbooks! Now, at last, I have tried all my ideas, taken pics, written
about the recipes, eaten the results and finally published a little ebook which
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ice cream book which I originally titled “Lush Ice Cream without a Machine” but
have now slightly re-named as “<i>100+ Luscious Ice Creams without a Machine</i>”, it
occurred to me that I know several other useful, super-flexible base recipes. I
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cream book a little, to bring it in line with this new series of which, to be
fair, it was the first. Don’t worry if you've already bought it, all the recipes are the same, I've just added links
to this new book and more photos. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Luscious-Creams-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=la_B00AG1YUKE_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1395666587&sr=1-2" target="_blank">Click here to have a look at it in detail or even buy it </a>– surely it will be spring soon!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spent the whole day “sitting on the settee” (as my darling calls it even though
I was on a hard wooden chair) trying to upload it to Amazon. I still don’t know
what the problem was. Sometimes the photos were in the wrong place when I
previewed the book, sometimes it just wouldn't upload. I did exactly the same
as I usually do and as this is my 5</span><sup style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> self-published ebook (</span><a href="http://suzybowler.blogspot.co.uk/p/ebooks_24.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">read about the whole set here</a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) I
have uploaded, so far), I am befuddled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway it worked in the end and I have no idea why it did,
either! I think it was probably a glitch on Amazon rather than something I was
doing wrong – I’m never wrong!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So as I am never wrong here, briefly, is how I (usually
successfully) prepare, convert and upload my ebooks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Have the finished
document in Word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Add any photos in
their correct place using the insert photo method (not copy and paste or
anything else!). Pictures should ideally be in the proportions 9:1I. I usually
make mine 900 pixels wide but sometimes less than 1100 pixels high, that just
means it doesn’t fill the page. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Modify the
“Normal” Style to Times New Roman, font size 12, single line space. Within
Normal set the Paragraph style to 6 points after a paragraph and 6 points
indent, if you like, for a new paragraph.
Save these modifications.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Highlight the
whole document (press cntrl A) and set it all to Normal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ You will now have
to go through the document re-setting such things as centring, bold and
italic. Don’t have any unusual fonts or
anything larger than 14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ If in some places,
such as lists of ingredients in my case, you don’t want a break after a line or
paragraph press Shift/Enter instead of just Enter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>To convert a book for Amazon Kindle</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Save the prepared
document as Web Page, Filtered to Desktop.
You will then see this … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Right click on the
document on your desktop (as it is now in HTML it will be have the same icon as
your browser), go down to Send To and select compressed zip file.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ If your document
included photos open the zip file that has appeared on the desktop using
Windows Explorer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ There should also have
appeared a separate folder on the desktop containing your photos. Drag and drop
this into the zip file you have just opened with Windows Explorer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>To upload a book to Amazon’s Kindle</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Go to <a href="https://kdp.amazon.com/" target="_blank">Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~ Sign up, log in
and follow the instructions!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Easy Peasy (Usually Pusually)!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Free Book!</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of self-published books, if you’d like a copy of my
“<i>219 Cooking Tips & Techniques you might find useful</i>” <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">pop over to Sudden Lunch and click the link in the sidebar</a>.
There is an option to sign up for my Sudden Lunch! posts to be delivered
straight to your inbox, it’s not compulsory but you might like them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-86113931271349005412014-02-03T13:52:00.000+00:002014-02-03T13:54:15.283+00:00A Blog Chain Virgin in the Virgin Islands<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This post is a little different as I have been invited to
take part in a Blog Chain – a first for me and quite exciting. The basic idea is that the initiator decides
on a topic, writes about it and then nominates another blogger or bloggers to
do the same. I am the last of this
current chain, scroll to end of this post for earlier links.</span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mSFop9EmGyE/Uu1iB5xzWmI/AAAAAAAAEi0/JtdbgmHLk-o/s1600/Blood+Tied.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mSFop9EmGyE/Uu1iB5xzWmI/AAAAAAAAEi0/JtdbgmHLk-o/s1600/Blood+Tied.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wendy Percival who writes contemporary mysteries inspired by
genealogy and family secrets nominated me, bless her. Read about her newly
published book “Blood-Tied” (which I shall be searching out as soon as I return
to Cornwall) </span><a href="http://www.wendypercival.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and visit her blog about writing </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://engagewritebrain.blogspot.com/2014/01/blog-chain.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> where you can read her link in the chain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These are the four questions which are the subject of this
post:</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1) What am I working
on?<br />
2) How does my work differ from others of its genre or type?<br />
3) Why do I write what I do?<br />
4) How does my writing process work?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They look quite simple but I’m not so
sure, here goes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>What am I working on?</i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lots of things, that’s why I’m so
confused!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have written and published four
ebooks on Amazon Kindle, I enjoy doing them, the independence they give me from
all the palaver involved in traditional publishing and the small pittance that
I occasionally receive from Amazon. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iYwKHT07-fc/Uu1fR7n18SI/AAAAAAAAEiY/PEzGKmtw24Q/s1600/Suzy+Bowler+ebooks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iYwKHT07-fc/Uu1fR7n18SI/AAAAAAAAEiY/PEzGKmtw24Q/s1600/Suzy+Bowler+ebooks.jpg" height="640" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Suzy-Bowler/e/B00AG1YUKE/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0" target="_blank">Details of these ebooks can be found here </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am currently in the Caribbean where I
used to live and where (very sadly for me) we are packing up our remaining
belongings and selling our boat as a final break with the place. This seems a good time to write about my
experiences as a chef here so I am starting on that as an ebook.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LEDEDsGxGZM/Uu1feg7PuFI/AAAAAAAAEig/miM967XotQQ/s1600/Josiah%27s+Bay.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LEDEDsGxGZM/Uu1feg7PuFI/AAAAAAAAEig/miM967XotQQ/s1600/Josiah's+Bay.JPG" height="215" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There has been talk of publishing a
sequel to my real grown up book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Leftovers-Handbook-Ingredient-Inspirational/dp/1908974087/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1381269149&sr=1-1" target="_blank">“The Leftovers Handbook”</a> which, despite what I
said above about the publishing process, I am very proud of. I am not sure if this second book, about
cooking from the store cupboard, will go ahead but I am collecting ideas and
recipes just in case.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also have lists of ideas to pitch to
magazines, things to post in my blog and lots more </span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">ideas for ebooks.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>How does my work differ from others of
its genre or type?</i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If it does differ then it may be
because of my diverse cooking experiences not only in England and the Caribbean
but also in The Canaries, France, Madeira, New Zealand (and maybe other places
too that have slipped my mind!) including working on a passage making yacht and
a day trip catamaran and living, cooking and eating in camper vans, caravans
and living on a boat for 16 years. Also I like to think, when writing, that I
am chatting to a friend so am not too formal.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Why do I write what I do?</i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well one big reason is that I am <i>so irritated</i> with the way people eat,
the lack of basic food knowledge, and the waste of perfectly enjoyable good
food simply because people don’t know what to do with it. Also I feel I have learnt so much it would be
a good idea to pass it on! Oh - and I enjoy it, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>How does my writing process work?</i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m not sure it is organised enough to
be called a process. Once I have decided
on a subject I make a “collection” of everything I might want to include from
background info, quotes and anecdotes to, of course, recipes and foodie
ideas. If there is enough to make
something worth reading I then sort it under various headings and start
writing. Anything I am not sure of I type in red to go back to. Any information
from elsewhere I type in purple so as not to plagiarise anyone. I test recipes
that I am not totally sure of, take pics and go for it! Part of the “process” involves grabbing any
opportunity I can to write when my real man doesn’t have the telly on which
really distracts me!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Links in the chain:</i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can’t find the start of the chain (!) but here are the
most recent ones:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://2weavers.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/blog-tour/" target="_blank">Debbie Nance ~ 2 Weavers</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://samanthatonge.co.uk/page3.php" target="_blank">Samantha Tonge</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://patsy-collins.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/chain-reaction.html" target="_blank">Patsy Collins</a> ~ </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://tracyfells.blogspot.com/2013/12/writing-on-blog-chain.html" target="_blank">Tracy Fells</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just a quickie because "unfortunately" I am in the Caribbean (my home for many years) where there is limited internet access but unlimited sun, rum and good friends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ever since I started writing my father in law (who passed on
18 months ago … <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/balsamic-jelly-fudge-on-toast.html" target="_blank">but see here for a picture of him in his magnificent youth!</a>)
said that I shouldn't waste my time writing about food, I should write about
sex as that it what sells.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have very slightly taken his advice and written a short
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my real man calls it) to come up with what seem to be the 17
most-likely-to-be-aphrodisiac foods and then given some background on each one,
some ideas of what to do with them plus a recipe or two and a little bit about their nutritional
benefits as they relate to the libido. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’ve just published this eBooklet on Amazon. As I say in the intro, Christmas catering can
be time consuming, tiring and a bit stressy, so I thought I’d offer some
suggestions to make it quicker, easier, more relaxed and perhaps more
impressive! This eBooklet contains a collection of quick ideas and recipesI
have used over the years to impress guests and customers without knackering
myself! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people always say over something!) recipes which can either be made well in advance or
are almost instant. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They are …</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It’s only 75p and<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Easy-Festive-Food-Relaxing-Christmas-ebook/dp/B00GQA191W/ref=la_B00AG1YUKE_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384865220&sr=1-4" target="_blank"> you can have a Look Inside first here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-25636960066495245972013-10-20T18:34:00.000+01:002013-10-20T19:27:46.310+01:00Amazon Ranking<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Thanks
in part to a </span><a href="http://www.frugalqueen.co.uk/2013/10/the-leftover-handbook.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;" target="_blank">great review of The Leftovers Handbook by The Frugal Queen</a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> my sales have improved dramatically over the last few days. I check once or twice (or eighteen or thirty
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Me,
Suzy Bowler, ahead of Delia!</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Not really
of course; it’s due to how the books have been categorised. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">The Leftovers Handbook is under </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_1" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: blue;">Books</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/66/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_2" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: blue;">Food & Drink</span></span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/271071/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_3" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: blue;">Reference & Gastronomy</span></span></a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> > </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/271043/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_4_last" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: blue;">Gastronomy</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> Actually it has been as high as number 4 in
this category and is at 8 today but looks so much more impressive with Delia
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It
does mean, however, that I can rightfully claim to have been in the Top 100 Gastronomy
books for quite a few days now!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It
was recently brought home to me how important categorisation is after my lovely
agent Jen Christie managed to get the Kindle version of The Leftovers Handbook re-categorised
under Gastronomy and sales rank improved considerably – something to bear very
much in mind when self-publishing on Amazon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">This </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">isn't</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> cheating at all; it’s making life easier for possible purchasers to find
the information they are looking for which will, naturally, boost sales. This is why my book features nowhere
under </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_1" style="line-height: 107%;">Books</a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> > </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/66/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_2" style="line-height: 107%;">Food
& Drink</a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> > </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/1039768/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_3" style="line-height: 107%;">Food
Writers</a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> > </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/books/1039774/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_2_4_last" style="line-height: 107%;">Delia
Smith</a><span style="line-height: 107%;">! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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other news</i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In
case you are wondering about how <a href="http://suzybowler.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/bt-complaint.html" target="_blank">our BT Fiasco</a> is going – the matter is
now in the hands of The Chairman’s office who were sadly confused and in fact
placed a new order on our behalf which we didn’t want. They did cancel it quite efficiently after I
pointed the error out and I think started to understand that at the moment all
we want is the reinstatement of our old number.
(Yes, we will need more work later but that can take place months from
now after we have rallied a bit!) </span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We
don’t have our number back yet; it’s been something like 10 days since the
Chairman’s office took the case over and I would have thought returning our
original number, which is not in use by anyone else, would be a piece of you
know what. They’ve managed to change it
twice without too much trouble, or our consent!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-29600788506025378122013-10-11T13:45:00.000+01:002013-10-12T10:57:44.815+01:00Sorry about this rant but I've got to talk to someone!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 11.25pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Back story ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We live in
a house with a barn at the end of the garden. We have converted the
barn into a home and intend to gut, renovate and then rent out the house.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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recently had a book published and both urgently and constantly need phone
and internet access for marketing it. I have had business cards printed and distributed with my phone number and email address on them. I have sent out press releases and
magazine pitches via email and need to respond immediately to replies. I
tweet and use Facebook, Linkedin and other social media, all of which have
a positive effect on sales and keeping my name and my book in people's
minds. Networking being so very important these days my sales rise
and fall dramatically depending on whether or not I am active online.
My agent, publishers and publicist communicate via a joint Dropbox in the
cloud which now, of course, is not available to me. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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important and upsetting we have a family member with terminal cancer and
need to be in touch with him (so far he is still living alone in his own
home in Newcastle) on a daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>27/10/13</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 27<sup>th</sup> June we arranged with BT for the transfer
of the line from our house to the barn on Friday 26<sup>th</sup> July
between 8.00 am and 1.00 pm and based on that date made other
arrangements for our move. During the intervening month we received a
call from the engineers asking us to confirm some details of the location and
he called later to say this was fine and the work could go ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">26/07/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• No-one
showed up all morning but we moved and at 12.55 pm our line was
disconnected, 15 minutes later I received a text message...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We are really apologize (sic) that the engineer could not
visit your new address to activate the telephone line. Reason for Delay:
Job Delayed with TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT. Next Update Friday 16<sup> </sup>/08/13.
We will keep you updated so that you needn't call us back. Thank You Bt
(sic)"</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Called
the 0800 800 150 waited 20 minutes then spoke to a girl in India who
gave me the number to call. It was 0800 800 150! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Called
again and got a guy in Birmingham who spoke to the engineers who said
the work could not be done because "it is a very busy road" and they
need clearance from the council. Seemingly they assume a road is quiet
till proved otherwise! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• I
asked for the line to be switched on again but was told this is not possible
and I would be updated on 16<sup>th</sup> August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• I
was told a manager would call me back on my mobile within the hour. He/she
didn't. This phone call, including waiting time, took over an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• I
called again and spoke to girl who said she would do her best to arrange for
the service to be switched back on sometime Monday (although transferring the
line would still not happen till at least the 16<sup>th</sup>) and would call
me back to let me know how she got on. She didn't. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">29/07/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Spoke
to a savvy guy who set up a temporary phone number to our house and said it
would be charged at the same rate as our original line</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.
He suggested I get a dongle for temporary internet access and credited our
account £25 to cover this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">30/07/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Contacted
people saying that I would be out of action for day or two till I got a
dongle. Sadly this information was wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">31/07/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Tried
to get a dongle but all suppliers, including BT, say there is not sufficient
reception where I live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Spoke
to Durham who said we could cancel the order and have our old number
back with 48 hours. We could then rearrange the transfer for a later
date. She said she'd transfer us but unfortunately it was a wrong
number! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Re-dialled
and talked to a guy in India who didn't really understand but
eventually decided he couldn't do what we were asking and indeed no-one
in India could deal with this problem and he couldn't transfer us to
anyone who could. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• Tried
again - same guy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• 3<sup>rd</sup> call
we got a Scottish chap who, after about half an hour discussion, came up with
the information that he couldn't deal with it and transferred us to ....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• ...
Open Reach in India who after about 10 minutes transfer us to ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Open Reach in Warrington. They said cancelling the order was not the thing
to do as it would take until at least 5<sup>th</sup> August to reconnect
and there was no guarantee that we would get our original number back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• She
transferred us to Order Management in India, the guy's English was not
very good so he transferred us to his supervisor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">• We
asked if it would be possible to speed up the procedure and transfer the line
within the next few days, he said "No" and that was it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">01/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I posted the above information in a letter to the BT
Correspondence Centre at an address in Durham given to me by one of
the friendly folk above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">03/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Hello - this is a message from BT. This is to confirm we
will contact you 20/08/13 by 20.00 to discuss the delay in activation
of your services. There is no need to contact us as we will not be able
to provide you with any more information. Thank you. Sender 2123001"</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">06/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Emailed BT from a friend's and was told I would receive a reply
within 24 hours, I didn't. Filled in complaints form at <a href="https://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact_email/c/5642%2c5681" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0068cf;">https://bt.custhelp.com/app/contact_email/c/5642,5681</span></a> but have not heard anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">07/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received a call from India in response to my letter sent
to Durham to reassure me that work would be done as soon as possible
after 16<sup>th</sup>August. I gave him some details, he was surprised and gave
me a direct number to Order Management. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called the number held in a queue with a recording every few
minutes saying "will be answered". After 25 minutes I realised
as I had already got through to the number I was being charged for this long
wait. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I hung up and just for a laugh called 0800 800 150 and was held in
a line for a few minutes and then an automated service took my mobile number
and said they would hold my place in the line and call back within the hour.
They didn't. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">08/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I called 0800 800 150 again twice, as above, no return calls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">12/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wrote to Warren Buckley asking for his help, no reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">19/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">BT called to say would be erecting traffic lights on 22<sup>nd</sup> August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">22/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">No traffic lights by 5.30 pm so I rang and bugger me if I didn't
get through to a sensible girl in England who spoke to the engineers who said
the lights were scheduled for 7.00 pm. and also that the distribution box was
full and they needed to split the line before completing the work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">At 7.00 there was a Traffic Lights van outside and bollards had
been placed for some way along the road BUT they had gone again an hour later!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">23/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called BT and was told the engineers had arrived that morning but
were unable to do the work as there was a parked car in the way! How odd,
if this is true, that they didn't knock at our door or any of our neighbours to
find out whose it was or to get it moved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">BT called on my mobile to say that they needed to do some work at
the exchange first and would update us by 8.00 pm that day.
They didn't. I called the number and got a recorded message:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We tried to call you
but there was no answer ... you have not been charged for this call."</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">24/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called 0800 800 150 and spoke to a guy in India who said
it's in the hands of a facilitator and that he'd put a note on the
file. As it was a bank holiday he'd try to ensure someone calls 8.00
pm on 27<sup>th</sup> August but, this did not mean the work would be
done then!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">27/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">No one rang. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sent an updated letter to Warren Buckley, still no reply. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">28/08/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called BT and some genius said they could add internet to our
temporary line and did! I was very pleased and wished they'd done it
earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">04/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I went to France with a friend leaving my partner
in UK and giving BT his daytime and mobile numbers. I had
expected the situation to be resolved by my return on 24<sup>th</sup> September.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">12/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">BT texted me in France to say they had called but were
unable to get hold of me. I tried to reply to the text to
re-iterate UK numbers but not possible to reply to that number.
.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">16/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received a text, in France, saying they would contact me on
the 18<sup>th</sup> September.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">18/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received a phone call, in France, from BT, told them again
the UK numbers and was told that they'd call my partner in a day or
two to let him know how things are going.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">20/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I received, in France naturally, a text saying ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We have tried to contact you unsuccessfully. We apologise for the
delay in providing you with Telephone service, we are working with our
engineers to resolve this. We will contact you again on 27/09/13</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">24/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">***</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> On my return to the UK I opened my post and do not
think it is as agreed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">25/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called 0800 800 150 and said "billing". Spoke to a
guy who said he was from "Customer Optimisation". I asked what that
was and he explained that it meant "customer optimisation". I
didn't so much discuss the bill as rant on about what a balls up this is and he
was less than helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">26/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Filled in another BT complaint form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">27/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received a reply to above complaint form filling in, it basically
said the matter was in hand and traffic lights would be erected on 30<sup>th</sup>September.
No apologies or even much politeness about the situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">30/09/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">During the day bollards were placed along the road and then, late
afternoon a real live man from Open Reach came to see us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">He told us that the work that needs doing is under the road
opposite the bus stop about 20m up the road. He said traffic lights need
to be erected to do this work and that there is a car parked there so not
poss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">He then said that there is an embargo on putting traffic lights up
during the hours of daylight on our road due to the large lorries that use
it. (There have been other service with daytime traffic lights and I have
the pics). He said that so far as he could see the situation was
impossible and suggested we cancel the order and ask for a switch ie. extend
the line down the garden, and worry about reconnecting the house when the time
comes which would be with less pressure and forewarned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">02/10/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We were still thinking about this advice but received a surprise
visit from Open Read who apparently performed a switch by extending our line
from the house to the barn! We assumed from this that our original order had
been cancelled and although we were still considering what to do decided it was
for the best. Fingers crossed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The guy said to us, no kidding, "Now I've done this probably
other people will turn up to do the work. For a communications company
the communication in BT is terrible."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">03/10/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received a text from BT saying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Sorry your orders been
delayed and we need to rearrange your engineer visit. To book another visit
call 0800 800 150.</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">04/10/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received a text from BT saying they will call us on 8<sup>th</sup> October
to "discuss about the order". Just a few minutes later received
another text saying:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Sorry. Your
"BT order start date" has changed. Your new engineer's visit is
on
29<sup>th</sup> October
..!"</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">That will make it over 3 months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Also received an email, reputedly from Warren Buckley with same
info giving reference no. HMNMG*************<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called 0800 800 150 to get our old number back. The guy,
Harold, said it was not possible as there was an order pending on this
number. I explained the whole sorry mess to him and he said to hold on
and he'd talk to the engineers. He came back to me and said he had spoken
to two departments. One said we had cancelled the order (we hadn't
although have been advised by BT to cancel it) and the other said they would
cancel the order immediately. He then went to reinstate our original
number and, what a surprise, the order had not been cancelled! He was
quite upset himself and said he will work on it and call be on the mobile
tomorrow. He didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">07/10/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called O800 800150 and spoke to a girl who put me through to
another girl called Bernadette at Customer Care. She said cancellation of our
original order was "pending" and shortly after confirmed that it had
been cancelled. She applied to have our original number back and said it
should be done within 24 hrs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received an email confirmation of the above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Later same day BT called to say an engineer would be calling on 29<sup>th</sup> October
to complete the (recently cancelled) order. I explained the situation
although the Indian lady and I had trouble understanding each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received this email ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hello - This is a message from BT. This is to confirm your telephone service
will be activated by midnight 29/10/2013, the engineering appointment
is between 08:00 to 13:00. Your reference number is VOL0**********.
Thank you for choosing BT</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As you can see this is different from the new order number above!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">08/10/13</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Received an email from BT (Warren Buckley again - but still no
reply to my direct letter) saying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">"We're all done Hello -
now ready for you."</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A friend called on the mobile to say that neither our original
number 5 nor our temporary number were working.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Called 0800 800150 and talked to Mark who said that our new number
(!) is now completely different!!! I explained to him all that had gone on and he
has tried very hard to help us out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">He spoke to the engineers who said that there is an order pending
on that number. He said that it had been cancelled and they said that it
was "supposed" to be cancelled but wasn't! He has asked for the
order to be cancelled and our old number reinstated which, he thinks will take
a day for the cancellation and a day for the reinstatement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">09/10/13<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We received 2 texts and an email saying … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We need to change some dates<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">We're sorry, but we need to change the
date that some of your services will start or stop.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your broadband start date is changing
from 26-Jul-2013 to 29-Oct-2013.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The date your current phone service will
stop is changed to 26-Jul-2013.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your broadband stop date will also
change - it will now be the same day as your phone line.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Services can start/stop any time up to
midnight on their start/stop date. Any kit you're expecting will arrive on
time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you need to change any other dates in
your order or postpone the stopping of any of your current BT services, call us
on 0800 800 150.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">You'll need order number
HMNMG*************<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Followed by a text saying …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Important BT Order Update –
unfortunately we are unable to provide an update on your order as planned. You do not need to contact us as we will be
in touch before 8 pm on 11<sup>th</sup> October.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">11/10/13<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">As our original number has not been reinstated I called 0800 800
150, waited 15 minutes, spoke to order management in India who said the order
is completed! Said I needed to speak to
the guy I spoke to in England on 8<sup>th</sup> October, Mark. The man in India said he could not transfer me. Tried again, same result. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">For a short while after this our phone line and broadband went
dead!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tried again but was not put through to anyone. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">No-one called as indicated by yesterday's text.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The road we live on is fairly busy-ish, I suppose, for a single
carriageway main road through a village in Cornwall. The telegraph pole is
on our side of the road directly outside the house, the line needs to be
extended for a few yards down our garden. We own both properties. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">So far we have spoken to 20 or more people, been held in line
many, many times usually for 20+ minutes and once for over an hour. When
we do get to speak to a person we have to start all over again, repeating all
the details and telling our story which gets longer each time. We have
not been called back at least 15 times. We have not been replied to twice
by Warren Buckley or his staff (despite being told that is who to contact), BT
complaints in Durham failed to deal with the situation and nor did
BT's complaints department after filling in an online form. We have been
told all sorts of things from we can be reconnected within days to it is
humanly impossible to reconnect us. We have been told the problem is the
distributor box, the exchange, somewhere in between, the busy road, Traffic
Management, not being able to contact us due to me being
in France despite having left two alternative numbers, need clearance
from council, engineers encountering a parked car, and so on. We have
heard so many different versions of what could or should happen next that we
don't know what to believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I would very much like this situation resolved asap. I have
lost a great many book sales because of this and also lost momentum in my
writing career but am unsure how this converts to monetary terms. I would
like the money for our recent bill refunded as it is, after all, BT's fault we
needed this temporary line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please is there any way you can sort out this problem for us and
also perhaps the problems that BT seem to be experiencing as a whole?
Some suggestions ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Check if
the work is to be done on one of Britain's rare busy roads before the
moment of commencement.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't
disconnect a line till confirmation is received from the engineers that
the work can be done.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Try to get
all staff, all over the world, to synchronise their stories.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't say
you will call back unless you will.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">SORRY ABOUT THAT RANT ~ I just wanted to talk to someone!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The reason I started these two papers was, of course, in an attempt to promote my writing and my blogs but they do seem rather
random and even reading my own issues I have learned a lot! In fact in one of my earliest editions of
Lush Ice Cream News was this headline ...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you are unfamiliar with Paper.li then,
briefly, what happens is you set up a newspaper thingy concerning your area of
interest and then you designate various websites, twits and facebook pages plus
some appropriate keywords and every day or week, your decision, Paper.li collect together
relevant items into a new edition of your paper, email it to subscribers and
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This method means that unless you are very
stringent with sources and keywords some interesting stuff crops up. I subscribe to a number of Paper.li papers:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">~ <a href="http://paper.li/FoodMeditations/1314878934" target="_blank">The @FoodMeditations Daily </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">~ <a href="http://paper.li/CheekySpouse/foodstuffextra" target="_blank">The Food Stuff Extra Daily</a> T</span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">his recently linked to a
version of <a href="http://www.mojo4music.com/7288/van-morrison-into-the-mystic-take-11/" target="_blank">Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic</a>".
Well what a treat! I love Mr. Morrison and, I kid you not, I once had
dinner with him, just him and me, at his invitation! Anyhoo my point is - what has this to do with
food? </span></div>
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Olive Magazine, "foodie" is one of their banned words! They recently linked to a story about this
rather attractive older gentleman who at 50 still gets asked if he's old enough
to buy booze. Weak link but pleasant!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">~ <a href="http://paper.li/dgandolfi/1296910486?" target="_blank">On #writing</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">~ <a href="http://paper.li/clickcornwall/1312549849" target="_blank">The Click Cornwall Daily</a> - because I live here.</span></span></div>
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So that you too can waste hours reading all sorts useful info, plus irrelevant but
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">FOOD - the South Wests favourite food magazine have just launched their third Food Reader awards. Please go to <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">my foodie blog Sudden Lunch</a>
and click this logo in the sidebar to nominate your favourite chefs,
restaurant, retailers and more in the South West</span>. May I suggest Sudden Lunch as the Best Food Blogger? </span></div>
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both personally and in my role as a professional chef, my entire, and now
fairly lengthy, adult life. I have not
only cooked this way to save money (although it really, really helps!) and
because in some places I have worked food supplies have been tricky but also
because that's just the way I am. I like
nothing more than to be confronted with a mix of foodie bits and pieces and
make something cohesive and delicious from them. To be fair I do not claim, as Jamie does, to "shop
smart" although I am a bugger for the bargains but, as I say in the intro
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utmost pleasure out of every single scrap of food available to you. The waste it tackles is not so much about
money or resources but of good eating opportunities. As a bonus, of course, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>this will save you money </b></span><span style="color: #990000;">and may even help the
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of a moan about today! I worked long and
hard on this and I am very proud of it.
The recipes and ideas are my own, often cooked by me in less than
perfect conditions (in a small and crappy caravan and on boats both at sea and
at anchor for instance) so I am pretty sure they will work in bedsits and other
cramped conditions. </span></span></div>
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is doing (rather hampered by some problems with BT - <a href="http://suzybowler.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/bt-complaint.html" target="_blank">see here</a>) and now I feel I
might be upstaged by someone with less aptitude for this particular task,
offering less useful information (but lots of pretty pictures) just
because he is a "name". I am
not trying to diss the guy in any way but surely frugality is not his area of
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going Amazon-wise and see that today my book is ranking at # 7,897 with 13 five star
reviews and no others and Jamie's is at # 1 with 15 five stars, 3 four stars, 3
three stars and 4 rather cross 1 stars. </span></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-62477269168031520492013-08-27T12:17:00.001+01:002013-08-27T12:18:38.187+01:00British Telecom ~ what a Fiasco!<div class="MsoNormal">
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far as they do anything) individuals who I've spoken to trying to get this
sorted out, I mean the supervisors, managers etc who are supposed to actually
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Does anyone know of any good places to rant, complain, campaign
etc to get the ??? out in the open. If you
do please let me know in a comment or on Facebook Link, Twitter Link etc. It will of course take me a while to see your
ideas due to the problem but all ideas would be welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Just to let you know we still have no phone or internet even
though it is now over a month after the line was disconnected and the work not
done. My two or three previous posts
will give more detail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Having received no reply from Warren Buckley or his office
to my letter sent on 12<sup>th</sup> August I am now re-sending it with the
following Addenda giving an update on what has (or mostly hasn't) happened
since then.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">~ Addenda to previously sent letter which is
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">19<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A guy called to say BT would be putting traffic lights up
outside our house on 22<sup>nd</sup> August although he couldn't say when the
work would actually be done. Naively and hopefully I thought that if traffic
lights are put up on a Thursday the work might be completed by the weekend,
especially if that weekend is to be a Bank Holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">22<sup>nd</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We kept looking to see if the traffic lights were there and
when none had appeared by about 5.30 pm I rang 0800 800 150 and bugger me if I
didn't get through within minutes to a sensible girl in England!!! She was very helpful indeed and got in touch
with the engineers who told her that the lights were scheduled to be assembled
at <st1:time hour="19" minute="0" w:st="on">7.00 pm</st1:time>. They also said that the distribution box was
full and so they needed to split the line or something before completing the
work. Bearing in mind that all we are
asking for is an extension of our existing line 20 yards down the garden and in
fact first asked for this a couple of months ago I was (and am) surprised this
hadn't been done by now..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I said to the lady on the phone how very helpful she had
been and she said that to tell the truth this had been a learning curve for her
too, she was surprised about the traffic lights, the line being disconnected,
the delay in getting on with the work and the lack of communication herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At 7.00 there was a Traffic Lights van outside and bollards
had been placed for some way along the road.
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We had dinner, looked out again, all gone!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BT called on my mobile to say that they needed to do some
work at the <u>exchange</u> first and would update us by <st1:time hour="20" minute="0" w:st="on">8.00 pm</st1:time> that day. They didn't.
I tried called the number given on the mobile and got a recorded message
which said ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"We tried to call you but there was no answer ... you have not
been charged for this call."<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... which is utter rubbish as they had called me and spoken
to me and I was just trying to speak to them again! The number in this case was 0888 0285085.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I called 0800 800 150 and spoke to guy in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> who,
again, was sympathetic and helpful. He
said he could see the matter was in the hands of a facilitator (he said this
was to speed things up!) but couldn't say who this was. He said he would put a note on the file
saying how disgusted I am not only at having no phone or internet for so very
long but at the total lack of courtesy in BT's way of dealing with the matter. He said <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He also said that as it is now a bank holiday he would try
to ensure that someone calls me by <st1:time hour="20" minute="0" w:st="on">8.00
pm</st1:time> on Tuesday 27<sup>th</sup> August but that he would not lie to
me, this did not mean the work would be done then!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">27<sup>th</sup>
August<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Having received no reply from Warren Buckley or his office
to my letter (above) sent on 12<sup>th</sup> August I am now re-sending it with
this addenda to update you/him/them on what has (or rather mostly hasn't)
happened since last I wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So that's 17 people now, another un-returned call, a phone
number which it is unable to contact and now more than a month since the work
was due to be completed. It is also 15
days since I wrote to you but no reply - perhaps this lack of communication is
company policy! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you can think of any way of going public and letting
people know how bad this "service" is (and as BT is huge and almost a
monopoly I realise it is difficult to fight or even do without it) please
either let me know, or them!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PS. BT have just called me to say that they couldn't do the work on Friday "as there was a car parked in t he way" which is, of course, utter rubbish and probably a lie! Firstly because why did they take down the traffic lights on Thursday evening if they had intended to do the work Friday and, secondly, surely "engineers" have the brains to knock on our door to see if we own or know who owns the car so that it can be moved.</span></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-55283194007798314522013-08-20T11:18:00.000+01:002013-08-20T11:42:40.252+01:00I never realised how important Twitter etc. are!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I first started using Facebook when a friend of mine got
married in Perth, Australia and posted her wedding pics on FB (hello Telly
Tubby x) and since then it has been a very useful way to keep in touch with far
away friends that we miss in the Caribbean .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When Twitter first started at first it sounded a bit silly
to me and you know it, or some of the Tweople who use it, are Very Silly Indeed
or worse. Nevertheless I joined up,
started tweeting and have a little over 1,000 followers. Sometimes it is quite fun and sometimes
useful and informative. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I find Pinterest a great way to store photos, both mine and
other people's, in the cloud - a kind of online scrapbook and also a way to
publicise my work. My book "The Leftovers Handbook", the publishers
felt, is so full of information there is no room for photos so I put them on
Pinterest just in case anyone is interested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stumble upon can be a great timewaster and I used to get
stuck on it for hours, in fact one day a very spooky thing happened to me on
Stumble Upon see here LINK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Blogging has become a regular and enjoyable habit for me and
I am trying to keep it going during this troublesome time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I did not realise, however, until <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2578459077989037813#editor/target=post;postID=7768801747391603691;onPublishedMenu=overviewstats;onClosedMenu=overviewstats;postNum=1;src=postname" target="_blank">my recent (and continuing)BT Fiasco</a> quite how useful a marketing tool networking is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Since publication sales of my book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Leftovers-Handbook-Ingredient-Inspirational/dp/1908974087/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_2_JDVJ" target="_blank">The Leftovers Handbook</a> have
generally hovered in Amazon's rank at about 30,000 (the lower the number the
better the sales) give or take a few thousand until BT disconnected our phone
line. See how sales immediately dropped
soon after I stopped networking and then how they shot up again after I spent a
day online at my friend's house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the following week rather more spectacularly ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... and I fully expect the same thing to happen in the next
few days (fingers etc. crossed).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course when I am fully operational I don't just promote
my own books and blogs I comment on other people's thoughts and ideas, make
suggestions, joke, retweet things I find interesting, have conversations and
generally post things I think funny haha or funny peculiar. This is all very well but sometimes I've been
doing it for hours and have to remind myself to get on with "important"
things and stop playing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hopefully I shall be back online on or around or just after
the weekend, perhaps, and can get back to my tweeting and in the meantime here
is a bit of heartfelt networking I saw from the bus recently ...</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-77688017473916036912013-08-06T11:33:00.003+01:002013-08-06T11:34:58.248+01:00“Without promotion something terrible happens… Nothing!” ~ P.T. Barnum<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sadly, thanks to BT, this is exactly the situation I now find myself in. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The story so far ... (I'm sorry if you read some of this in
my last post!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Back story ... </b></i></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We
live in a house with a barn at the end of the garden. We have converted the barn and are
moving into it for the next year (or maybe for ever) whilst we gut and
renovate the house. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leftovers-Handbook-Ingredient-Inspirational-ebook/dp/B00CS41O6K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375783051&sr=1-1" target="_blank">"The Leftovers Handbook"</a> has recently been published and I both urgently and constantly need
phone and internet access for marketing it. I have sent out press releases
and magazine pitches via email and need to respond immediately to replies.
I tweet and use Facebook, Linkedin and other social media, all of which
have a positive effect on sales and keeping my name and my book in
people's minds. My agent,
publishers and publicist communicate via a joint Dropbox in the cloud
which now, of course, is not available to me.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even
more importantly we have a family member with terminal cancer and need to
be in touch with him (so far he is still living alone in his own home in <st1:city w:st="on">Newcastle</st1:city>) on a
daily basis.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The transfer of the line was arranged for Friday 26</span><sup style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">
July between </span><st1:time hour="8" minute="0" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" w:st="on">8.00 am</st1:time><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><st1:time hour="13" minute="0" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" w:st="on">1.00 pm</st1:time><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Friday 26<sup>th</sup>
July</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->No-one showed up all morning but in good faith we
completed moving our home into the barn. At <st1:time hour="12" minute="55" w:st="on">12.55 pm</st1:time> our phone line was disconnected and about 15
minutes later I received a text message on my mobile thus ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"We are really apologize (sic) that the engineer could not visit
your new address to activate the telephone line. Reason for Delay: Job Delayed with TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT. Next Update Friday 16<sup> </sup>/08/13. We will keep you updated so that you needn't
call us back. Thank You Bt (sic)"<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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number (0800 800 150) and were held in a line for about 20 minutes. I then
spoke to a very helpful and sympathetic girl in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> who gave me the number to
call. It was 0800 800 150! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I called again and got to talk to a guy in <st1:city w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:city> who was also
very helpful and he got in touch with the engineers who told him that the work
could not be done because "it is a very busy road" and they need
clearance from the council. Seemingly
they assume a road is quiet till proved otherwise! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I asked, of course, for the line to be switched on
again but was told this is not possible and I would be updated (just updated
mark you, not transferred and connected) on 16<sup>th</sup> August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I asked if there was anyone in charge I could talk to and
was told I could write to someone called Warren Buckley or something similar, I
think. I said it was more urgent than
that and was told a manager would call me back on my mobile within the hour. He/she didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Just after 4.00 pm I called again and spoke to another
sympathetic and helpful girl who said she would do her best to arrange for the
service to be switched back on sometime Monday (although transferring the line
would still not happen till at least the 16<sup>th</sup>) and would call me
back to let me know how she got on. She
didn't. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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July</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I spoke to a more useful sort of guy who set us up a
temporary phone number to our house and suggested I get a dongle for temporary
internet access. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->As it happens I had a radio interview arranged for this
day to be conducted over the 'phone and as I had to use my mobile with less
than perfect reception the interview was cut from fifteen minutes to five. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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July</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I spent the day at the home of a good friend willing to
let me take over her internet connection for several hours contacting people
saying that I would be out of action for day or two till I got a dongle. Sadly this information was wrong. My friend lives 16 miles away so this is not
something I can do frequently especially as I don't drive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I tried to get a dongle but without success as all
suppliers say there is not sufficient reception where I live - PL26 7YH.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Although the account is actually in my name, as I was
getting so very upset by this stage, my partner then rang 0800 800 150 and
spoke to a girl in Durham who said we could cancel the order and have our old
number back with 48 hours, We could then
rearrange the transfer for a later date. This seemed the best answer since I
need the internet as soon as possible so, to enable us to do this, she said
she'd transfer us to the correct department but unfortunately it was a wrong
number! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->He re-dialled and got to talk to a guy in India who
didn't really understand what he was saying but eventually decided he couldn't
do what we were asking and indeed said no-one in India could deal with this
problem and he couldn't transfer us to anyone who could. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Third time lucky-ish he got a Scots guy who refused to
say where he was but at least they understood each other. After about half an hour of explanations and
discussion he came up with the information that he couldn't deal with it - we
needed to speak to Open Reach. He said
he was transferring us to ....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span><!--[endif]-->... Open Reach, their Indian office, who after about 10
minutes pondering decided to transfer us to ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->... Open Reach in Warrington I think My partner went through the whole thing
again, phone number, order number, address, what the problem is, etc. etc and
they had a long chat and she was so helpful he asked to have her direct number
in case he needed to speak to her again but she said there was no direct
number. She did say, however, that in her opinion cancelling the order was not
the right thing to do as it would take until at least Monday 5<sup>th</sup>
August to reconnect and probably take our internet provider another 5 working
days to reconnect us. She also said
there was no guarantee that we would get our original number back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->He was then transferred to Order Management in India, the
guy's English was not very good and he kept saying he would "do something
to make" my partner speak to his supervisor which eventually he did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->The supervisor asked for my partner's name, Paul
Clementson, and thereafter referred to him as Mr. Poll! Asked if it would be possible to speed up
the procedure and transfer the line within the next few days he said
"no". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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August</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I posted the above in a letter to the BT Correspondence
Centre at an address given to me by one of the friendly folk above. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Saturday 3<sup>rd</sup>
August</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I received the following text ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Hello - this is a message from BT. This is to confirm we will
contact you <st1:date day="20" month="8" w:st="on" year="2013">20/08/13</st1:date>
by 20.00 to discuss the delay in activation of your services. There is no need to contact us as we will not
be able to provide you with any more information. Thank you. Sender 2123001"<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As you see they </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>will call me on 20<sup>th</sup>
August to "discuss the delay in
activation of your services"</b>
</i></span><span style="color: #990000;">but I may have self destructed with sheer rage and frustration by then!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So far we have spoken to about 12 different people being
held in line over and over again for about 20 minutes per time, repeatedly
giving all the details and telling our story.
In the end we heard so many different versions of what could or should
happen that we don't know what to believe. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The road we live on is fairly busy but nothing out of the
ordinary just a single carriageway main road through a village in <st1:city w:st="on">Cornwall</st1:city>, the telegraph
pole is on our side of the road directly outside the house, the line needs to
be extended for a few yards down our garden.
We own both properties. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am now going to contact everyone I can possibly think of
that may be able to help. If you have
any ideas please ... WHAT? I suppose comment and I'll ask a friend to keep an eye on this blog for me. Also perhaps tweeting or posting on FB might help at least spread the word about BT's appalling service.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>HELP!</i></span></b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>PS. Sorry for being so moany and thank you for your comments so far. xx</i></span></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-73150896571870979142013-07-30T11:47:00.000+01:002013-07-30T11:50:49.581+01:00Buggered by BT!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A couple of months ago my first (yes I am planning more)
book </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Leftovers-Handbook-Ingredient-Inspirational-ebook/dp/B00CS41O6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375179414&sr=8-1&keywords=the+leftovers+handbook" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">"The Leftovers Handbook" </a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">was published and I was all proud
and excited and full of big plans. In
the course of reading up about being published I soon realised that the real
work starts after publication and that it is up to the author to work As Hard
As They Can to market the book. That was
fine with me, I already had a popular foodie blog </span><a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">"Sudden Lunch"</a><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and also an infant blog about my writing experiences - yes this very one! I have had several articles published in
national magazines and have also self published a couple of ebooks to help
establish myself as a food writer. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My agent the lovely Jen Christie of <a href="http://www.grahammawchristie.com/home.aspx" target="_blank">Graham Maw Christie</a> has been wonderful and <a href="http://www.readpublicity.com/" target="_blank">Katie Read, the publicity agent</a> for my publishers has done some fine work. I have received lots of great reviews and mentions
in the press - see tab above - and the most exciting publicity so far has been an
interview Katie arranged with Talk Radio Europe yesterday. All in all I've been feeling pretty good
about the marketing and full of ideas for the next few weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As if this isn't excitement enough for an old dear like me
we are sort of moving. We have a barn at the end of our garden which my real
man has converted from a shell to a wonderful little home and we are now moving in
whilst he guts and renovates the house.
Part of this move involves transferring our phone line to the barn and
this was arranged to tie in with the final part of the move on 26<sup>th</sup>
July. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The engineer was scheduled to
visit between <st1:time hour="8" minute="0" w:st="on">8.00 am</st1:time> and <st1:time hour="13" minute="0" w:st="on">1.00 pm</st1:time> so we got up early (for us!)
and although said real man had lots to do elsewhere he stayed home to
oversee and/or help with any drilling through the barn walls that might be necessary. Meanwhile I excitedly moved our last bits and
pieces into barn and started arranging my cooking and writing areas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And then BT buggered us thus ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span><!--[endif]-->At <st1:time hour="12" minute="55" w:st="on">12.55 pm</st1:time>
("cutting it tight", I innocently thought) the phone went dead and I
assumed this was the start of the job although I couldn't see any BT workmen
outside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->A few minutes later I received a text message on my
mobile saying ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">"We are really apologize (sic) that the engineer could not visit
your new address to activate the telephone line. Reason for Delay: Job Delayed with TRAFFIC
MANAGEMENT. Next Update Friday 16<sup> </sup>/08/13. We will keep you updated so that you needn't
call us back. Thank You Bt (sic)"</span><span style="color: #990000;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span><!--[endif]-->At about <st1:time hour="13" minute="15" w:st="on">1.15
pm</st1:time> the dialling tone returned to the phone but it is impossible to make
calls (all numbers are "not
recognised" ) or receive calls (nothing happens) and I have no internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->We borrowed our neighbours' phone to call the 0800
number (0800 800 150) and was held in a line for about 20 minutes. I then spoke
to a very helpful and sympathetic girl in <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> who gave me the number to
call. It was 0800 800 150! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I called again and got to talk to a guy in <st1:city w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:city> who was also
very helpful and got in touch with the engineers who told him that the work
could not be done because "it is a very busy road" and they need
clearance from the council. Seemingly
they assume a road is quiet till proved wrong!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->I asked, of course, for the line to be switched on
again but was told this is not possible till 16<sup>th</sup> August.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span><!--[endif]-->I asked if there was anyone in charge I could talk to
and was told I could write to someone called Warren Buckley, I think. I said it was more urgent than that and was
told a manager would call me back on my mobile within the hour. He/she didn't.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">•<span style="font-size: 7pt;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Just after 4.00 pm I called again and spoke to another
sympathetic and helpful girl who said she would do her best to arrange for the
service to be switched back on sometime Monday (although transferring the line
would still not happen till the 16<sup>th</sup>) and would call me back to let
me know how she gets on. She
didn't. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So far as my book and my work are concerned (in addition to
the problem I had about the interview - luckily my neighbours lent me their
phone) this is a real problem; I have sent out press releases and pitches to
magazines which I need to keep track of and respond to in a timely
fashion. Furthermore I blog and tweet
and use Facebook, Linkedin and so on daily and what I do in these areas really
makes a difference to my book sales. And
that's by no means the worst of it ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On a much more upsetting note for us (and sorry to bother
you with my personal life) is the fact that we have a family member with
terminal cancer and really do need to be available at all times. Can BT seriously think that a text message deals with all this? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In case you are wondering, mobile reception is not very good
in this part of <st1:city w:st="on">Cornwall</st1:city>,
our neighbours are elderly and do not have internet and we are miles from the
nearest library or internet cafe etc. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, to cut to the chase ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>My Advice to BT </i></span></div>
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Davraz, (I wrote it down but can't read my own handwriting!) who has set up a temporary line for us until 16<sup>th</sup>
August (the road outside being quiet, of course!). We'll see how it goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">PPS. I know it is important to break up posts with some pictures so here is one I just copied from <a href="http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/category/slightly-grumpy/page/2/" target="_blank">The Cartoon Blog </a>which seems excellent and which I will be investigating further (just as soon as I get back online)!</span></div>
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pondered even before the days of ebooks, Amazon and self publishing. Often I would see books advertised at
"The No. 1 Bestseller" even though I who read avidly and spent far
too long in bookshops and libraries had never heard of it. How, I pondered, was best seller status established?</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now, with a couple of ebooks and a "real" book published this
question is no longer purely academic for me - what does No. 1 Bestseller mean? Does anyone know? In reading and talking to people in the
publishing and self publishing industry I understand that choosing one's
category is a good way to reach the top of certain piles. Incidentally and oddly the categories my
books are actually listed under on Amazon are not quite what I selected but close
enough. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A couple of days ago my <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lush-Cream-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=zg_bs_362299031_6" target="_blank">ice cream book</a> was rated on Amazon thus ... </span></span><br />
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Nonfiction > Food & Drink > Cooking by Ingredient > Cheese &
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And what I want to know is - in accordance with the first line above can I now
advertise it as a best seller? It would
feel a bit cheeky but if that's way things are done I don't want to miss
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"The Leftovers Handbook" has been favourably mentioned in Great
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releases from companies inviting, asking or hoping that I will endorse them on
my <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sudden Lunch blog</a>. Some of them are
completely out of the question such as one received recently about electronic cigarettes
which are really not for me. Some are
interesting for instance concerning<a href="http://www.laverstokepark.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Laverstoke Park Farm's</a> range of meaty
products for summer BBQing such as delicious sounding wild boar and chorizo
burgers and a lady offering to do a guest post about nutritional matters (including
a link to her business client) but I say no as they don't quite fall within my ambit, aka what I want to do.</span></span></div>
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porridge I did write a <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/oatmeal.html" target="_blank">post on it </a></span><st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/oatmeal.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-GB"> and I shall probably be doing one soon about rice - damn fine
infographic they have! Here's a sneak peek or <a href="http://www.tilda.com/news/top-bbq-tips" target="_blank">see here for the whole thing.</a></span></span></div>
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<st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="color: #660000;">Well</span></span></st1:stockticker><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span style="color: #660000;"> timed cookbook by
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A-Z of every conceivable ingredient in your kitchen, with inspirational ideas
and recipes for using them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"Since receiving this
book I have felt far more confident that I can reduce food waste in my kitchen
and try new recipes at the same time. One of the major bonuses is that the
recipes don’t force you into the cycle of buying more ingredients just to use
up leftovers! ~ Mumtopia<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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is filled with quick and easy recipes. They may well inspire you never to throw
anything away again." ~ The Sun<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"What this practical
guide lacks in pretty photography, it more than makes up for in
innovation." ~ Great British Food Magazine<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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just so easy to read it's as though you're chatting to a</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #990000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 11.5pt;">
friend and one that's on the same wavelength as you too."</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Suzy Bowler's comprehensive book is a real help
in getting the very best out of leftovers - something we can all benefit from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bulk of the book comprises an A-Z of over
450 ingredients with many interesting and delicious way to use them including
what to do if you have too much of an item, ways to present leftovers in a new
guise, how stretch a small amount of something delicious so that lots of people
get a taste or, even better, how to make yourself a selfish treat with a tiny
morsel. Entries include food pairing suggestions (useful for combining
leftovers), advice on storage and freezing and the occasional handy hint,
together with jokes, anecdotes and quotes. At the end of the book is a chapter
of basic recipes, some storecupboard suggestions and a short rant on best
before dates. The whole book is cross referenced making it a very handy tool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With food waste hitting the headlines and the
cost of living soaring this is a very timely book indeed but whilst whole
libraries of books have been written on frugality and being green – this isn’t
one of them! The Leftovers Handbook is about getting the utmost pleasure out of
every single scrap of food available; the waste it tackles is not so much about
money or resources but of good eating opportunities. <i>It’s a bonus, of course, that this will save money and may even help
the planet.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After cooking professionally for many years in <st1:city>Cornwall</st1:city> (as joint owner of The House on the <st1:place>Strand</st1:place> at Trebarwith) Suzy Bowler spent 16 years
working as a chef on a small island in the <st1:place>Caribbean</st1:place>. On <st1:place>Tortola</st1:place> the
climate is fabulous, food supplies limited, deliveries unreliable and customers
as pernickety as they are anywhere. The
use of all food available was very important to her and back in <st1:city>Cornwall</st1:city> seeing so much good food being thrown away she
decided to tell people what to do with it, so to speak.</span><br />
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</span></span><st1:city style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Cornwall</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"> Property News</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have sent this to a few local papers and
to someone farther afield who was talking about leftovers so fingers
crossed. I've had one response so far
asking for photos and saying they will mention The Leftovers Handbook in their
next issue - Cornwall Property News which has a Living and Lifestyle, Food
& Drink section at the back.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Has anyone got any good ideas for promoting books? It's a lot harder than writing!</span><br />
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<br />Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-59668676307355419542013-06-16T15:47:00.000+01:002013-06-16T20:40:45.006+01:00Summer Special Offer ~ "Lush Ice Cream without a Machine" <div class="MsoNormal">
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last post so I'd just like to mention it again.
As the weather was so good for a couple of days last week (and rumour
has it the sun will be out next Friday - yippee!) I have reduced the price of my
ebook "Lush Ice Cream without a Machine" to £1.98 which is about the same price
as a carton of ice cream and much, much cheaper than an ice cream machine. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lush-Cream-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371385431&sr=1-3" target="_blank">You'd better see here</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lush-Cream-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371385431&sr=1-3" target="_blank"> and get a copy</a> so
you'll be ready next Friday! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This method makes rich creamy dairy ice cream
quickly and easily, I promise you, and the reason I wrote the book is that it's
so simple and foolproof that I felt it would be a shame not to pass it
on. </span></span></div>
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one of the first recipes in the book, as part of a twist on traditional Cornish
Cream Tea. </span></span></div>
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photo I hope everyone now realises that the Cornish have always been right - it
is jam on first, topped with cream. <a href="http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/eugenia-cheng-formula-rodda-cornish-clotted-cream-scone-maths-1.276553" target="_blank">See here for the maths!</a> </span></div>
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exciting but this is the first time I have seen my book in a real, live book
shop and, not only that, in the window and, not only that, above Rick Stein!!!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tomorrow I am giving a talk to a local
craft group on getting published. This
is the first time I'll have done this too but presume that if I just chat along
giving useful info I've picked up together with some jokes and anecdotes I should be OK and they have
promised coffee and biscuits.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the things I am going to stress is
how much work the publicity is, I feel I could sit here on my computer till the
end of time pitching magazines, blogging, tweeting, commenting on Linkedin,
posting on Facebook, emailing and so on and so forth. I don't mind at all, in fact I enjoy it but
at the same time it is a) frustrating (magazines take <i>ages </i>to reply if at all) and b) there is so much to do I keep
forgetting what I am doing. Serves me
right for being so old, I suppose.</span></span></div>
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-53557860492083845992013-06-11T12:49:00.000+01:002013-06-11T12:55:34.014+01:00My Neverending List!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have always been prone to list making, I
even enjoy it - especially the crossing off bit when a thing is done. I like
that bit so much that if I do something not on the list I add it and then cross
it off. Sad or what!</span></span></div>
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"taking off" I have so many things to do I have a running list which
despite all my delicious crossing off never seems to get any shorter. I use <a href="http://download.cnet.com/iDailyDiary-Free/3000-2124_4-10211308.html" target="_blank">iDailyDiary</a> a very simple and free program
which means I can copy and paste my unaccomplished tasks to the next day.</span></span></div>
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usually gets done but some things just get transferred over and over again and
then when I do look down the list I can no longer remember what I was talking
about, eg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="X-NONE">"Twang
it into a tree" - this is a little catch phrase we use at home but why did
I add it to my list? Twang what?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="X-NONE">"Wombles
- I mean it this time" (I did eventually remember what this was and <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/my-inner-womble.html" target="_blank">wrote this blog post as a result</a> but I'm still not sure why I put "I mean it this
time"!) </span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="X-NONE">"Laupahoehoe
Position" - after some stroky chin pondering this too resulted in a <a href="http://suzybowler.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/comment.html" target="_blank">blog post.</a> </span></span></div>
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- no idea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lush-Cream-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=la_B00AG1YUKE_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1370946109&sr=1-3" target="_blank">Click here!</a></span></td></tr>
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while I have had "Update Lush Description" in red on the list, waiting
to be accomplished and yesterday I got round to it. This is as a direct result of reading an
excellent little eBook on my Kindle; <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unlimited-Books-Sales-Machine-ebook/dp/B00BSOU610/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1370946820&sr=1-1&keywords=unlimited+book+sales" target="_blank">"Unlimited Books Sales Machine"</a>
</span><span lang="X-NONE">which makes some
really good points and from which I realised that I could probably do better than just repeating the start of the book when describing my "Lush Ice Cream without
a Machine" on Amazon, it does after all have a Look Inside option. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lush-Cream-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=la_B00AG1YUKE_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1370946109&sr=1-3" target="_blank">Have a look and see what you think of the new improved description here.</a> </span></span></div>
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also, as the sun was out (note the past tense!) I decided to do a Summer
Special and reduced the price by 12%! I
put at the end of the description "</span><span lang="EN-GB">get it whilst
the sun's out!" which I wrote in a burst of enthusiasm but there's nothing
like being prepared and anyway ice cream is good at any time. Here's one I made earlier ...</span></span></div>
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<br />Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-65763670668164902032013-06-05T21:13:00.000+01:002013-06-05T21:16:49.531+01:00Surely it's time for ice cream now, isn't it? <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Leftovers book I had almost forgotten my ebook, "Lush Ice Cream without a
Machine - or much time, or effort or having to mash the stuff as it
freezes" but now, with the weather so much improved, it has somehow sprung
to mind again.</span></div>
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homemade ice cream books there are on the market, often involving complicated
methods and expensive ice cream machines. I felt it would be shame not to pass on this
undemanding but excellent recipe</span></span>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the book I give over 100 ice cream
recipes plus lots of others for accompaniments, inclusions and serving
idea. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For more details and photos see
the tab at the top of the page or <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lush-Cream-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=la_B00AG1YUKE_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1370457725&sr=1-3" target="_blank">go here and have yourself a "Look Inside".</a></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At only £2.25 it's about the price of a tub of ice cream in the supermarket and I am sure it will give you more pleasure.</span><br />
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recipe is superb for using up leftovers - raw and cooked fruit, broken biccies,
cake crumbs, crushed meringues, leftover sauces and "unwanted"
chocolate. Bonus!</span><br />
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-31722305701631747232013-05-27T15:22:00.000+01:002013-05-27T15:27:55.689+01:00Google, Diets and Rude Words<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I was writing <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Leftovers-Handbook-Ingredient-Inspirational/dp/1908974087/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1369659744&sr=1-19" target="_blank">"The Leftovers Handbook"</a> my
Father in Law expressed the opinion that I was more like to be a success if I
wrote some porn and it turns out he was on the right track; I believe "50
Shades of Grey" may have sold even more books than mine. Now that I am published I occasionally, only every
half hour or so, check how my book ranks on Amazon and sometimes it is doing
quite well but I'll tell what sort of books are doing really well, possibly
right up there with porn - dieting!
Especially the 5:2 type diet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps I could write a book combining all three, </span>hmm - something to
think on. <span lang="EN-GB">I must be careful though. When I was writing <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lush-Cream-without-Machine-ebook/dp/B00AEZC24I/ref=la_B00AG1YUKE_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369664048&sr=1-3" target="_blank">"Lush Ice Cream without a Machine"</a> I did some research on the competition and found that a
book called </span>"Tits and Ice
Cream: Because Everybody Loves 'em!" was published by Windupbird
Publishing at the end of 2011. Looking for it now it seems it didn't do well and
the publication was later abandoned! I
have tried to find a picture of the book's cover for your delectation but to no avail so here is a
photo of an ice cream from my own ice cream book - which requires no machine,
not much time or effort, no having to mash the stuff as it freezes <i>and </i>you can
keep your clothes on. Mighty fine
recipe, even though I say so myself!</span></div>
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(observant or what!) that the cunning or even inadvertent use of certain words
can really increase visitors to my blogs.
A fairly obvious one was the mention of naked men in my last post; I had
a feeling that might help.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">More
surprisingly was the vast number of visitors to my blog about a delicious
traditional apple dessert, <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/apple-dappy-savoury-cream-tea.html" target="_blank">Devonshire Apple Dappy</a>, </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a while ago on Sudden Lunch.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I soon realised what had happened <a href="http://suddenlunch.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/my-blog-goes-gaga.html" target="_blank">as explained here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, my point is, keywords, tags, metadata
and tits can all be useful tools to promote one's blog! </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I use <a href="https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS" target="_blank">Google Adwords</a> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">where one can research keywords to see which are likely to have the best effect.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is the result of today's
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... from which you will see that,
surprisingly given the choices, "diet" is the most frequently searched for
term this month, both globally (the first column of figures) and locally (the
second column). "Dappy" isn't that high on the list but it worked for me, mind
you that was 18 months ago and maybe the world has moved on since then.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Once you have chosen your keywords make
sure they appear a few times in your post, use them as labels or tags and it is
also a good idea to title your photos with a keyword before uploading. I had actually called the above chart
"keywords" but having had another search changed it to
"google" which was searched for online a magnificent 923,000,000
times in the last month and so should be a good keyword to use! As another example; the ice cream picture
above was originally named "blueberry ice cream" (8,100 searches on Google this month) which I have just shortened to "blueberry" (2,240,000
searches this month).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is possible to change the title of a
post after publication. This being the case I publish with a highly searchable keyword rich title and then, immediately, change it to something more friendly and
appealing. The first title is the one
that appears forever in the URL to that post - this one was originally just "Google Diets" but I thought it might be more intriguing if I added "rude words", is that cheating do
you think? Of course, people looking for
porn or Dappy probably move straight on but they may just find something of
interest. They have to eat too you know, keep their strength up! </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-11981561177794840802013-05-21T11:49:00.000+01:002013-05-21T11:51:56.006+01:00To Kindle your Interest!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am pleased to announce that <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Leftovers-Handbook-Inspirational-ebook/dp/B00CS41O6K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1369132882&sr=1-1&keywords=leftovers+handbook" target="_blank">"The Leftovers Handbook" is now available on Kindle</a> which I think is a bloody good idea and not just for the obvious reason; hopefully more sales. My reasoning is that "The Leftovers Handbook" is
eminently suitable to the search inside function available on ebooks. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The book is primarily an A to Z of
ingredients giving lots of ideas and recipes to use up leftovers of such
ingredients. There are, for instance, 18
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throughout the book where bread is the secondary leftover in a dish. My point is that with an ebook it is easy to search every
reference to an ingredient before choosing what to make.</span></div>
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if you feel like it!</span></span></div>
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</span>Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-29375722024735412962013-05-18T20:46:00.001+01:002013-05-18T20:48:04.537+01:00Book Reviews and Naked Men!<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Yesterday I excitedly
bought The Sun because The Leftovers Handbook was recommended in it; here is the write up - rather good, I feel. </span><br />
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it and grinned and shown it to people I flicked through the rest of the
newspaper and lo and behold another nice surprise! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I have received other good reviews too from The Independent, Saga and more - to see
them click on The Leftovers Handbook tab at the top of the page. I'm adding more reviews
as they occur.</span><br />
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Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2578459077989037813.post-57463667791447754952013-05-09T17:25:00.001+01:002013-05-10T09:43:44.680+01:00Ice Creamy.li<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Today saw the first
issue of my new paper.li newspaper appropriately called ... </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Today saw the first
issue of my new Paper.li newspaper appropriately titled and subtitled ... </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I didn't
mention it before as I wasn't sure if I had done it right! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The way it
works is I provide a list of sources (eg. The Huffington Post and Telegraph
Food) together with some keywords and paper.li assemble an edition gathering together any
articles by these sources which mention my keywords. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>"Cat Snores Into Glass Of Orange Juice For No Apparent Reason"!</i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My keywords
are, of course, ice cream, gelato and sorbet but they seems to have been interpreted
broadly and quite interestingly. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you would
like to have a look at this edition see <a href="http://paper.li/SuddenLunch/1367686254" target="_blank">here</a> and if you would like to receive future editions just click on SUBSCRIBE at the top of the paper.li page and/or follow me on Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of
ice cream here is a picture of Saffron Ice Cream - recipe in my book - with a
handful of pistachios just to get you in the mood.</span></span></div>
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impersonated on Twitter. I know I am
really interesting all that but really!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">... and this is hers, if it is a her - it look
to be so by her picture.</span></div>
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but what are the chances of her having exactly the same name, her twitter username
being the same as mine but with an 'e' cunningly added on the end and, this is the
clincher for me, she claims her location as Cornwall, UK and BVI. </span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Well I've never seen her in either
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">This surely, surely can't be a coincidence,
obviously, even though Twitter say ...</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i>"It appears
that you have not provided sufficient evidence that the account you are
reporting is impersonating you."</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The fake me, isn't doing anything
unpleasant on Twitter so ... should I be irritated or flattered?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Talking of Suzy Bowler type things you too can
be Suzy Bowler if you join WDCAWBA which is The Washing DC Area Women's'
Bowling Association. Every year the lady
who wins the annual tournament is Suzy Bowler for the year. If you want a go see<a href="http://www.ncaba.org/hallofame/beatty_h.htm-" target="_blank"> here </a>-
I've been Suzy Bowler for ages and ages and I recommend it! </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The Real <i>Suzy Bowler </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Sudden Lunch ~ Suzy Bowlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12223072545569393665noreply@blogger.com