A quiet one

Thursday has been a quiet one. The Gorse Fox was up early and spent some time reading the news and catching up with some limited social media. He has learnt that social media is, in general, a vacuous, vitriolic source of information and has limited himself to Facebook only, now. Even there he skips many of the posts entirely knowing that they are just click-bait, or they are anti-science propaganda, or party political in nature. The problem with social media is that it has given every half-wit and moron a megaphone through which they can publicise their ignorance, their bigotry, and their utter stupidity. The problem with the democratisation of information is that we are now wading around, knee-deep in a cesspool of ignorance and it's very hard to find the nuggets of intelligence that occasionally surface. The irony that the Gorse Fox is making such a statement on, what is after all, a social media platform is not lost on him.

After our normal Thursday morning shopping delivery we hopped on the bus and went to Chichester. We didn't have a lot to do, but the Gorse Fox thought he'd take the opportunity to drop into Vodafone to terminate the Silver Vixen's current service. Needless to say that was only something that could be done on the phone, so we wandered away unfulfilled.

Back home we called Vodafone. We were transferred to their cancellations team - or at least that's what we were told. When the phone was answered it turned out to be the upgrades team. The Gorse Fox explained he wished to cancel and was told they are only taking queries right now because they are so busy. Phone back later or tomorrow. Strange how the upgrades department got the call. The Gorse Fox suspects that if he was upgrading it would have been handled immediately.