Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

greenbee

Well done on finishing the blanket. 

You clearly need a couple of cats - they could deal with the mice and the spiders!

beanielou

SEnds a cat to live with Cheery. They will deal with the mice & the spiders. Sadly they also bring in birds. 

Cheery_Daff

Please don't send me cats! 😂 I'd rather have mice than a load of dead birds! Mr C wouldn't stand for it! 

Hmm, a mysterious banking occurrence 🤔 Mr C had a bank statement this evening, from our main bank. Odd, as I didn't think he had a separate current account (used it for a switch a while back). 

Turns out it's a smart saver. New account. Statement 1 of 1. Only transactions, both 18th Sept:

* £250 in from our joint current account
* £17.50 interest

🤔

I mentioned we'd tried to set him up a regular saver a year ago - first didn't open properly, so we opened a second, but that apparently meant he had two, which contravened regulations, and they closed the second - and as far as we could tell, the first hadn't opened. 

So I would have assumed this savings account was what a regular saver had turned into - except there was no regular saver.

Also, why has it had £250 transferred into it? Nobody did that manually! All I did recently was cancel the £250 standing order to my regular saver. 

Weird weird weird! We'll have to Mr C's account to see what's happening - he's not got the banking app on the phone.

Cheery_Daff

Ok, logged into his account - the savings account is showing, with £267 into it. The reference for the payment is 'to [Cheery] regular saver'. Curiouser and Curiouser. 

Odd that a standing order that until very recently was going to MY savings account has all of a sudden gone to HIS! Mine is still open, with the same account number - it's just not a regular saver any more (and neither is his!)

I suspect just an odd glitch, but not a remotely helpful one (especially as it's not showing in the list of standing orders). 

It's just about possible that I've done it manually when cancelling the SO - but HOW? That account is in the list of payees, but it looks like it's actually a standing order - and I can't see as I managed to cancel one standing order, and in the process set up an entirely separate standing order for the same amount and with the same reference number, to an account that we've never transferred anything to, and then cancel it again after one transaction. 

Anyway, blah blah. I've sent a secure message through the online system to query it, and hopefully they'll let us keep the £17.50 interest

rtandon27

Did I miss the blanket piccie?

Cheery_Daff

rtandon27 said:

Did I miss the blanket piccie?

I put it up then took it back down in a weird fit of fretting about being identifiable 😂 ridiculous really - I'm sure I've said plenty thT would identify me more than this over the years 😬 I'll probably use that exact picture elsewhere though and I try not to replicate as I don't want any real life followers in here, even accidental ones 😬😂

Anyway, you're not missing anything - it's this exact blanket in exactly the same colours 😃 I'll post a pic when I've got it ironed and in a marginally less identifiable picture

https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/canalboat-blanket.html

KajiKita

That typepad link didn’t work for me …

KK

maddiemay

Lucy's Typepad account closed on 30th Sept (with those of everyone else I believe).  Her site is migrating to www.attic24.co.uk, from today, nothing there to see yet, history and details of the problem on her book of faces pages.  Cannot imagine the amount of work to save all her lovely patterns and photos.

Cheery_Daff

Ah yes, I knew it was closing,  must have been about half an hour after I posted! I'll take a picture soon.

Greying_Pilgrim

Does the link to where Lucy's canal blanket was shown, on her insta account, in all it's glory work for anyone ....

Lucy's Canal Blanket

HTH Greying X