Those fucking arseholes in Irish Ferries sent me an email on Thursday evening.

It was a lovely mail.  It said that because I had sailed on the Ireland – France route during the summer, that I was entitled to a free return trip to the UK next year.

Have you made a return trip to France in Summer 2009? If so, you are entitled to a FREE return trip to Britain!

The trip is for a car and 2 adults return on our cruise ferry services from Dublin to Holyhead or Rosslare to Pembroke so you can get away from the doom and gloom without spending a penny of your hard earned cash! Cheer yourself up – book your FREE trip NOW.

This was great news as I always wanted to show Herself around my old stomping ground around Somerset.  She deserves a holiday, as the coal hole is quite draughty.

I spent Thursday night happily browsing around the Interweb looking for suitable accommodation.

I found a lovely place in a wee village called Wedmore which is quite close to Cheddar.  They like smokers there, and Sandy would be welcome too, and it was only 100 yards crawl from the pub.

Perfect.

I spent a happy couple of hours dreaming of wandering the Mendips.  I could visit my old haunts in Cheddar, Wells and Bath.  I might even let Herself do some shopping.

Before I did anything permanent though, I decided to check on a couple of things with those fucking arseholes in Irish Ferries.

I wrote them a nice email, thanking them for the nice offer, and could they confirm that there weren’t any restrictions, such as having to return within half an hour of arriving.  I also wanted to find out exactly when I could go, as the offer is for ‘off peak’, and their web site wasn’t too clear on that matter.

I had checked their site thoroughly, as it gave the terms and conditions of the offer, but I couldn’t find a definition of ‘off peak’.

Anyway, the fucking arseholes wrote back yesterday.

They said I’m not entitled to the offer, because although I travelled with them during the offer period, I came back in September, and apparently some fucking arsehole in Irish Ferries has decided that September isn’t summer.

Fucking arseholes.