Both our banks allow you to pay cheques in via their apps - you just take a picture of the front and the back 📷. Very handy.
Warmer here today - my gardening efforts yesterday were indoors only, too cold to be outside for long. Today looks more promising.
My cross stitching is progressing well - had forgotten how much I enjoyed it 😀. A bunch of poppies is slowly starting to appear on the canvas. Helps to distract me from the news.
That's standard though, with the credit card. It's only a problem if the payment doesn't land in the same period as the credit. Clue's in the name I had a situation when doing the car insurance earlier this year. The site wasn't working, and it told me 'something had gone wrong', just after I'd made the payment. I concluded that the payment therefore didn't happen, so I tried again later. Same thing. I then got the emails and discovered they'd taken both payments. The usual nonsense, and delaying tactics, getting them to refund me, especially when I said I wanted to cancel the whole thing, because it had been a farce. Eventually got credited, but it all fell within the same period, before I had to pay the balance on the card. I wouldn't have been particularly happy if I'd been out the £700. Sheila's Wheels by the way....in case anyone's thinking of using them
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Possum is fine for the mo @chicky but I worry about when all the consequences will come home to roost - no decisions yet on when and how they will assess her work for her masters. Then there's job hunting to start this summer or early autumn - how many companies and organisations will be in a position to engage new staff? She needs to be out of her apartment by mid September but where to move to? Here? There? When that all hits she may go into meltdown, like many others in the same boat.
@Hostafan1 my weekly drive to the SM is 23kms and back, more at the mo cos of the road closure after flooding. Banks and their facilities are considered essential services as are Post Offices and the nearest open one of those at the mo is also 23kms away.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We get quite a few clients who pay by cheque still. We post them with a paying in slip as Dove says - usually takes less than a week for it to appear in the account. We've done it for years. These are not usual times of course.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I forgot about that. The good old Pee Off as it's known here. Not easy for so many people @Obelixx. Hope your daughter gets through it though. I expect everyone in that position is worried. You'd hope that the exam system will be appropriate for assessing/marking this year whether it's school, college or Uni. All these young people are in the same boat after all. My sis was telling me her neighbours are both self employed, so they're going to struggle. The neighbour across the road who gave me some milk the other day, just started out on her own last year. She's on her own, so no other income etc. and a mortgage. Hopefully she'll get relief from that just now.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Hostafan1 - I may be wrong but I thought you could use your credit card to draw out cash from a cash machine? Granted, you won't be able to take it all out at once, but in the allowable amounts? Perhaps look up your Terms & Conditions online.
@Punkdoc, I understand some nursing homes are setting up Skype sessions for residents to talk to relatives. Is that an option? Lots of cards and letters instead perhaps.
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Warmer here today - my gardening efforts yesterday were indoors only, too cold to be outside for long. Today looks more promising.
My cross stitching is progressing well - had forgotten how much I enjoyed it 😀. A bunch of poppies is slowly starting to appear on the canvas. Helps to distract me from the news.
I had a situation when doing the car insurance earlier this year. The site wasn't working, and it told me 'something had gone wrong', just after I'd made the payment. I concluded that the payment therefore didn't happen, so I tried again later. Same thing. I then got the emails and discovered they'd taken both payments. The usual nonsense, and delaying tactics, getting them to refund me, especially when I said I wanted to cancel the whole thing, because it had been a farce. Eventually got credited, but it all fell within the same period, before I had to pay the balance on the card. I wouldn't have been particularly happy if I'd been out the £700.
Sheila's Wheels by the way....in case anyone's thinking of using them
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Lovely daffs @Dordogne Damsel. I do like the creamy ones. Glad yours are coming up now @Fairygirl.
Possum is fine for the mo @chicky but I worry about when all the consequences will come home to roost - no decisions yet on when and how they will assess her work for her masters. Then there's job hunting to start this summer or early autumn - how many companies and organisations will be in a position to engage new staff? She needs to be out of her apartment by mid September but where to move to? Here? There? When that all hits she may go into meltdown, like many others in the same boat.
@Hostafan1 my weekly drive to the SM is 23kms and back, more at the mo cos of the road closure after flooding. Banks and their facilities are considered essential services as are Post Offices and the nearest open one of those at the mo is also 23kms away.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I forgot about that. The good old Pee Off as it's known here.
Not easy for so many people @Obelixx. Hope your daughter gets through it though. I expect everyone in that position is worried. You'd hope that the exam system will be appropriate for assessing/marking this year whether it's school, college or Uni. All these young people are in the same boat after all.
My sis was telling me her neighbours are both self employed, so they're going to struggle. The neighbour across the road who gave me some milk the other day, just started out on her own last year. She's on her own, so no other income etc. and a mortgage. Hopefully she'll get relief from that just now.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
It's best with an Irish accent too....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Punkdoc, I understand some nursing homes are setting up Skype sessions for residents to talk to relatives. Is that an option? Lots of cards and letters instead perhaps.