Bill Templeton

@KKIASA please could you explain to me what these signs mean?

@CostacoffeeSA please could you tell me the email address for you because I emailed recently and have had no reply?

It's a shame that @Saudi_Airlines staff don't understand that my Hewlett Packard padded rucksack IS a laptop bag. They made me check my other hand luggage bag so I could take the laptop rucksack. I was in Economy but I'm a Gold card holder. Very disappointed!!

@cas11no @PhoenixGroupUK I know what you mean Julian. I’ve been trying to draw cash out of my pension for months. In the latest episode it’s taken them over a month to process a change of name form.

If you ever have the misfortune to have to deal with #ReAssurepensions courtesy of the @PhoenixGroupUK then I do have your sympathy. What a complete bunch of amateurs and charlatans they are to deal with. Stay away is my advice. #nocustomercare

@AndrewOrlowski Gas isn’t the problem. It’s how we consume it. If you take Methane (CH4) and remove the carbon (C) you’re left with Hydrogen which, when burned, would result in that most odious of bi-products, water!! zengasenergy.com

Miliband wants the all the gas removed by 2030, and before then we’ll lose most of our remaining nuclear capacity, and the wood burning stove. You can do the maths.

@CostaCoffee You’ve jut sent out the following notification. When does the promo actually end?

@JeremyClarkson Hawkstone Logo

There’s a flagpole in the garden of my new pub and I’m wondering what sort of flag should be flown up there.

@easyJetholidays The email was confusing but now all resolved by EasyJet Customer Service 😊

@btempleton Hi again Bill, I'm sorry to hear this. Please can you drop us a private message so we can look into this further? - Becki

@easyJetholidays Do all beach holidays get free transfers?

@easyJetholidays Mine didn’t. @easyJetholidays added it manually and then send an email threatening to cancel the whole booking because I hadn’t paid the fees that have now been charged 🤷‍♂️

@btempleton Hi there Bill, shared transfers are included in our beach holidays😊 Once you get to the extras page, you'll have the option to select no transfers, shared or upgrade to private. - Becki

@SaudiArabianGP Where can I find out about shuttle bus times and routes?

@blackcircles 3

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@VirginAtlantic became a member of SkyTeam in March but @Skyscanner still doesn’t include them in searches with @skyteam as a filter ☹️

So I am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee "monitors" and then this happened. Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries? Me - excuse me? Her - you are wasting our bags! Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself. Her - that's not my job! Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you. Her - why are you using two bags?! Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out. Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag. *10 seconds of me just staring at her. Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag. Her - exactly. Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items. Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging. *me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching. Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items. Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags. *me looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show. Me- is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about? Her- never mind you just don't get it. And with that, she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills

@silverstonecircuit #iloverecycling My son’s first time at Silverstone and loving it !!

The @DacorumBC website “search planning applications” isn’t working.

@MartinSLewis There seems to be an erosion of the “Economy 7” discount with every rate change too so we’ll end up with a single charge. Does Ofgem endorse this?

WHY ARE ENERGY STANDING CHARGES SO HIGH? The high energy standing (daily) charges are a moral hazard and should be reduced. It is outrageous that people have to pay £300/yr just for the facility of having gas & electricity even if they use none. While energy price cap & bills drop an avg 17% this Sat, that ISN'T equal for all:- - Standing charges remain unchanged - Elec unit rate is dropping roughly 10% - Gas unit rate is dropping roughly 25% So higher users, especially with gas will see a bigger than 17% drop. Lower users, especially electricity only, will see a lower than 17% drop. Keeping the standing charge high means lower users can save proportionately less and less by reducing usage - that disempowers them. I have long campaigned for lower standing charges. MSE is submitting a consultation on this about shifting some of the cost the the unit rates. The reason Ofgem mandates firms to have high standing charges in the price cap is because they use it to pay for the 'fixed costs' of energy (distribution, transmission etc) - which it believes should be mostly shared equally. It is especially loaded onto the electricity standing charge as that is 'more universal'. I think a more progressive split would be better, by putting a bigger proportion of the cost on the unit rate. And in past polls I've done on here the huge majority agree. One stumbling block is the argument from Citizens Advice, an organisation I have great respect for. Its concern is that if you shift the burden, some vulnerable people with disabilities and medical issues that make them high users will suffer. Of course the correct solution to that is lower the standing charge but give them separate support. Yet that would involve an energy market that wasn't broken and the regulator and government to operate in concert. So we're in a chicken and egg situation. Still on balance I think the fair thing to do is lower the standing charge (and campaign for help for the high using vulnerable at the same time). Yet I wanted to bash this out quickly as I saw much debate on it after my earlier tweets, and I wanted to explain some of the bigger picture.

Why would you ever do something like that? 😡

@glennfreeman39 @Scalextric This is excellent. Have you got more photos?

The in-laws’ @Scalextric set up is getting outrageous now 🤯👏

@Saudi_Airlines I’ve tried adding my Virgin Atlantic frequent flyer number to my Saudia booking but the app doesn’t seem to know that Virgin Atlantic has joined SkyTeam ☹️