Mundane News

[deptfordmarmoset]

Later today, or next week, probably both, I am going to try to change my bank.

Current bank obvs have no intention of communicating with me. Long story short, I changed my mobile phone number, and cannot tell them the new one, except by visiting the local branch. They in turn have a disinclination to open, or even say when they are going to be open.

So... I am going to change banks to one where customer service is on-line.

What do I need to do that?

Patience = yes got that
Emergency rations = unopened chocolate orange = yes
Maternal Grandmother's maiden name? no idea
Crystal Ball = no, not yet

Can you think of anything else I need?

Name and shame?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Been out with my wife for a non stop ride for just o get an hour. It was grey and 3-4C, with moisture in the air.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Been out with my wife for a non stop ride for just o get an hour. It was grey and 3-4C, with moisture in the air.

I just went out for a short trip to Decathlon. A bit warmer, maybe 5C here but a strange kind of very light, invisible, drizzle. I'd occasionally feel little drops of water on my face.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I just went out for a short trip to Decathlon. A bit warmer, maybe 5C here but a strange kind of very light, invisible, drizzle. I'd occasionally feel little drops of water on my face.

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[tom73]

Later today, or next week, probably both, I am going to try to change my bank.

Current bank obvs have no intention of communicating with me. Long story short, I changed my mobile phone number, and cannot tell them the new one, except by visiting the local branch. They in turn have a disinclination to open, or even say when they are going to be open.

So... I am going to change banks to one where customer service is on-line.

What do I need to do that?

Patience = yes got that
Emergency rations = unopened chocolate orange = yes
Maternal Grandmother's maiden name? no idea
Crystal Ball = no, not yet

Can you think of anything else I need?

Signing up to an online only bank is so easy all done in minutes. We’ve been with
Monzo for years no issues and service is faultless.

 

[Jenkins]

Been out with my wife for a non stop ride for just o get an hour. It was grey and 3-4C, with moisture in the air.

Did something similar - without your wife obviously - and at one point the Garmin was showing 2.5C

 

[oldwheels]

Turned out to be lovely sunny day but not really safe for triking as the sun is a bit low and dazzling drivers.
There is one section of road here about a mile long where in winter the sun never shines and if frosty it should be taken carefully even if salted. Got stuck there once when going off island as the service bus had landed in the ditch and blocked the road for a couple of hours. In the past salt was not used but gravel generally from a beach was spread by hand shovels into a spreader on the back of an open lorry.

Cut down a large obtrusive shrub which has been annoying me for ages. Not something I planted but probably spread by birds.
Hard work but at least it got me out in the sunshine.

 

[pawl]

They stopped doing the large bars of Fruit and But years ago.
Nowt wrong with Dairy Milk, other than the bars are getting smaller.

Wagon Wheels have shrunk over time

 

[pawl]

Later today, or next week, probably both, I am going to try to change my bank.

Current bank obvs have no intention of communicating with me. Long story short, I changed my mobile phone number, and cannot tell them the new one, except by visiting the local branch. They in turn have a disinclination to open, or even say when they are going to be open.

So... I am going to change banks to one where customer service is on-line.

What do I need to do that?

Patience = yes got that
Emergency rations = unopened chocolate orange = yes
Maternal Grandmother's maiden name? no idea
Crystal Ball = no, not yet

Can you think of anything else I need?

Find a bank that still has a branch.

 

[classic33]

Wagon Wheels have shrunk over time

Not just yer memory playing tricks either. They used to be six inches, or 150mm, in diameter.

 

[pawl]

Not just yer memory playing tricks either. They used to be six inches, or 150mm, in diameter.

Are you suggesting that I’m turning into a doddering old git. Now what year is lt?

 

[classic33]

Are you suggesting that I’m turning into a doddering old git. Now what year is lt?

They always say things were bigger because you were smaller. But a physical measurement can't be affected by age. Six inches as a kid will be the same size six inches now.

2023 by the way.

 

[Reynard]

Cold, grey and murky here chez Casa Reynard, with the odd bit of invisible drizzle.

Slept well, did some chores this morning and then tootled off to Tesco for the Sunday afternoon reductions. Shop was busy, but not too many takers for the YS stuff (surprising IMHO) and just two other regulars other than me. Forgot to check my messages before heading out, so didn't know if a friend wanted anything (oops) so I picked out some things with her in mind. And if she doesn't want them, it's stuff I can use here anyways.

Came home with a pork leg joint, a tray with two pork loin steaks (a treat for Mesdames Poppy & Lexi), a pack with two free range chicken breasts, salmon fillets, smoked basa, two pieces of cod in batter, two slices of chocolate cheesecake, potatoes, green beans, mushrooms, a cauliflower, kiwi fruit, raspberries, pears, clementines and three loaves of wholemeal bread.

Have watched some football, and am now sat by the fire with a and a chocolate biskit.

 

[Speicher]

Find a bank that still has a branch.

The last time I was in a branch of a bank I was trying to get some cash cos their ATM was not working.

They detained me and asked me umpty three irrelevant questions about overdrafts (a teeny tiny one in my case) debts (absolute zero), etc ad nauseum. No amount of my saying that my parking payment was about to end, or that I had a headache, and just wanted some cash, made a jot of difference to their attitude.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Cold, grey and murky here chez Casa Reynard, with the odd bit of invisible drizzle.

I was searching for the Scottish word @oldwheels used a couple of days ago to describe this kind of weather and now I've got it! Smirr