Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like some good progress made today!

Alchemilla

It's a bit of a bummer to discover from a bank that you don't exist.

There you were, blogging, photographing, cruising and !!!!!!! They denied your existence.

It's like the start of a dodgy sitcom.

Karmacat

badmemory said:

Just check when you get them that they have the barcode & they aren't passing off old stuff on you.  Can you tell I am not very trusting?

Only just seen this, badmemory I'm with you on the lack of trust, which is why I've stayed with an isa provider who already knows who I am      The Royal Mail itself is the seller, so hopefully there won't be an issue, but if there is, I'll be on it - no way do I intend to use all these stamps up by the expiry period.

badmemory

I've forgotten how many times did he actually die?  I have just started watching again from ep 1.  I have no TV in the kitchen other than one to watch DVDs & i got so irritated by the one I was watching (Columbo I mean every story is a repeat of the last one I could write them myself, well no but you know what I mean) that I dug out STG 1 again.  Bliss!  Never ever grows old, unlike me!

Karmacat

Cheery_Daff said:

Sounds like some good progress made today!

Not bad, Cheery, not bad at all - each thing didn't take huge amounts of time, and there's a lot of ticks on the list, now, even though they're still only partial.

Gratitude: now that my youngest nephew and his wife have moved into their temporary flat, short baby films are in my inbox again  she's learning syllables, so I'm very happy!

Alchemilla said:

It's a bit of a bummer to discover from a bank that you don't exist.

There you were, blogging, photographing, cruising and !!!!!!! They denied your existence.

It's like the start of a dodgy sitcom.

😁  This tickled me!  Yes, though I think I avoided the bummer by refusing any further involvement with them 😁 I feel very smug about that   Though I'd love to know what "!!!!!" stands for in your post 😅  

Slight potential problem - I saw a child/young teenager open my drive gates and my person-size gate, run up to my front door, and run out again?  Whaaat?  Felt quite threatening to see, in spite of the fact that they're young.  I went out, but I'd blanked what they looked like, and there were at least six little boys around.  So now, I'll be on my guard, and **thinking** about descriptions, clothes etc.

Alchemilla

Practising for halloween? 

I can't remember the censored word but it wasn't rude! 

Karmacat

badmemory said:

I've forgotten how many times did he actually die?  I have just started watching again from ep 1.  I have no TV in the kitchen other than one to watch DVDs & i got so irritated by the one I was watching (Columbo I mean every story is a repeat of the last one I could write them myself, well no but you know what I mean) that I dug out STG 1 again.  Bliss!  Never ever grows old, unlike me!

He died many, many times    I've rewatched a few episodes recently, and it stands up pretty well.  PickTV is just finishing off season 8.  It was so uneven as a series, though with such a small central cast that lasted 10 years, I think that's inevitable, but I loved it dearly.  I'm surprised that I still really like it - my favourite prior to that was Babylon 5, and I *tried* to watch it recently and literally couldn't finish a single episode.  That's the writer/director/creator blues - its badly in need of editing.

Erm, I haven't really woken up, and I haven't had my breakfast - but I saw your post and couldn't stop myself    back later. 

badmemory

Babylon 5 may well be next on the list, either that or Atlantis.  I think we own both of them.  Sci Fi always seems to date less than ones about normal times.  I still think the original star trek was fascinating.  Have you seen it?  The one about "sort of colour prejudice" was amazing.  I'm not talking about the first inter-racial kiss, but the planet where one side of the face was black & the other white & your status depended on which side was black/white.

Karmacat

Absolutely!  Watched it when it came out, and I've seen a lot of the episodes since then.  And that episode was wonderful, I agree.  I confess, though, that even at the age of 15, the first time I saw them, I bonded with my dad about William Shatner's overacting.  The hero for me was always Spock 🖖🏻  that and the importance of trade unions were the only things we bonded on, so it was really important to me.

Karmacat

Right, the new isa is up and active on my building society's page.  Ahem, I've made a slight mistake about the rate of interest - it's 1.85%, not 2.85%, colour me embarrassed.  I'm very careless sometimes.  I'm leaving it where it is, though, I've had enough.

The little isa I also needed to move but couldn't, thats a much better story.  It's with Newcastle, and Martin currently has them as a best-of: 3.05% for 2 years fixed.  So that's what I'll go for, but I'll ring them and ask about transfer *plus* extra dosh on top.

ETA - used their chatline, a real human was on the end of it, hurray.  Open a zero balance isa, transfer the money from the existing isa, and then the cash, electronically or by a cheque to head office.  That cash is coming from France, from the money that's accumulating there now that the French mortgage is paid off, so that's the next job: figure out the best/easiest way to get it to this country.