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Jeremy Hardy on the CofE

Posted in Church, Fun, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 26 September, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I was listening to Radio 4’s ‘The News Quiz’ on BBC iPlayer earlier this evening. As usual, it was laugh-out-loud funny, but I especially enjoyed a section about 12 minutes in. It was about the dear old Church of England and some of the activities of bishops in the run-up to Back to Church Sunday, [...]

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Lads Mags in the Church Times

Posted in Lads mags, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For those of you who don’t subscribe to the Church Times (which I confess includes me and the Vicar), their article about my success in getting a local Asda to move lads mags to the top shelf can now be seen on the web.
I think the cartoonist has captured my furious look rather well. I [...]

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Complaining – more press interest

Posted in Family, Lads mags, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 17 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the midst of piling clothes into big boxes and hunting for missing library books, I had a phone call from the Church Times yesterday afternoon.
They’d been reading the article about my success in getting lads mags put on the top shelf in a local Asda store and were interested to know more about my [...]

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Complaining – in the paper!

Posted in Family, Kids, Lads mags, Wolverhampton, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 13 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »

The success of my complaint to Asda about their lads’ mags display was written up in our local paper this week. The article was pretty fair, although I’d hardly call a five minute queue at customer services and a five line complaint a ‘battle’, as they headlined it.
As the Express and Star have an online [...]

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Complaining – an update

Posted in Family, Lads mags, tagged , , , , , , on 9 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The other day I had a surprising comment on my blog. I’ve not approved it for reading because it was from a reporter!
She’d read my story about my success in complaining to a local Asda store and wanted to write it up for our local paper.
On Friday night I was out with friends for the [...]

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Complaining Works!

Posted in Kids, Lads mags, tagged , , , , , , , on 13 January, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I had a letter in the post today which cheered me a little. It was an apology from the manager of the Asda store which I’d shopped in for the first time on New Year’s Eve. He wasn’t apologising about the shocking queues in there, but then I’d not actually complained about that.
I had complained [...]

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