Travelling On

Karmacat

I did, thanks apple - I missed the train I wanted so I went the other direction to a village just as tiny. Had an interesting destination in mind as I walked, got there, inspected it and came back, shattered but feeling good.

beanielou

Glad that you enjoyed your wee jaunt

earthgirl

Hope you get some rest and are back to full strenght soon.

teapot2

Karmacat wrote: »

When Thatcher loosed currency controls soon after coming to power, I was working for the Export Finance Section of a leasing organisation (me and two older guys) and the very oldest guy was a wide boy in a suit, so it got shut down. I was kept on to do the shutting down, and the unravelling I had to do on some of his deals was amazing.

One time, a director called me in to explain why a big German company (still going today) had sent us a cheque for £7,000 (a lot of money at the time) and wanted us to simply send the same amount on to a third party. Today, you'd think it was avoiding sanctions; I doubt it was an outright bribe, because of the paper trail that was left. I had to tell the director that if anything fishy was going on, we'd have made up a better story

And then there was the Irrevocable Letter of Credit from Nigeria. Long the home of scams: but also the country of the origins of John Boyega, let's not forget. Who is wonderful.

When it comes down to it, science fiction is much more interesting than international finance :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

What intrigue, could be the bones of a mystery novel :rotfl::rotfl::cool:

teapot2

Wee trip out sounds good, hope you have a gentle remainder of the weekend

Karmacat

Morning! Yes thanks teapot, gentleness is definitely planned for today, especially since walking yesterday twanged the arthritis in the balljoint of my right foot, I'm limping quite badly. Still feel great though and slept well.

Lovely sunshine right now :j so after brekkie I'll say hello to the garden, but really, the thing to do is get the upstairs of the house tidier (including scanning and shredding) so that the remaining kitchen supplies can go up there. I can do anything, but I can't do it fast, sort of thing

Karmacat

Oops, I'm only now getting on the go. Luckily, the sun is still shining and almost as good, I've got enough YG points for another redemption. Should be winging its way to me over the next few weeks.


Right. On y va.

teapot2

Glad you slept well but ouchy re the arthritis in foot Well done re the YG total, always a good feeling to reach the point of cashing out.

beanielou

Boo to the arthritis

rtandon27

:T Well done with Ugov! :T

Still have not recovered enough from the last laborious round to give it another go! They became so few and far between that I suspect I'm not in the right demographic or maybe not opinionated enough for their surveys - :rotfl: