LB, I like Snoopy cartoon about Monday. Yesterday was beautiful spring day, and I spent it cleaning my neighbor garden. This is lady which husband passed few months ago, and she comes here only during summer.
I have now my tea and slightly getting ready for school. Outside is thick and cold sea fog. I'm planning shopping trip next Friday, and also visit to few GC. I'm in search for new clematis. Â
Wish you all nice day and see you this afternoon. Â
Thought I'd pop in and say hello while OH is still asleep.Â
Downstairs with my first cup of tea snuggled on the sofa.
@wfnp5bk4spsSNFYKh1 hope you're well Rosie. Â @debs64 thank you. Hope your fiance is enjoying his new job and everything is going well.Â
We're watching the The Gold too, enjoying it, but it does jump about at times.Â
@Biglad and @Ladybird4 I still use cheques sometimes. Shame they are not as popular as they used to be. Mind you the use of actual money isn't used that much since Covid.Â
Boiler service today, he's given us a time of 10 o'clock onwards. Do hope it's not too long after 10.Â
Good morning SGL. I am always surprised now at the number of various shopping outlets that have big signs up saying that cash is no longer accepted. It even happened on our French flights last year which completely threw one of our party who is very much a 'cash only' person.
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Good morning everyone .Ante ,I woke up to a thick fog this morning .I hope you have an easy day at school. LB we are looking forward to pancakes after dinner . Mine are already frozen . Lily I hope your boiler man comes soon after 10 then you can get on with your day .Look after yourself .
Good morning Ruby. I defrosted my pancakes overnight. Just need to squeeze my lemons ready for lunch. No fog here but it's dull and overcast. I might find another indoor task for now.
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Yes - a proper cheque @Ladybird4 I've had 4 over the last year or so from the same company. I inherited 3 small investments from my Dad. The last survivor has been closed so they're paying out in instalments. I suspect that was the last cheque I'll get from it. I'm not keen on the rapid trajectory towards a cashless/paperless society so I deliberately went and stood in the middle of the counter-less bank looking like a confused old man clutching 2 bits of paper (wasn't too hard!). A very cheerful chap eventually came to my assistance. Little did he know that I just fancied slagging off the way his employers were going about things Turns out that, after the raft of local closures, that particular HSBC branch is 'guaranteed' to be open for another 3 years (but only because they own the building making it, financially, less of a liability). Anyway, I got a paper receipt for the paper cheque that I physically took to a bank to pay in and woe betide anybody who tells me that I could've done it on my phone whilst sitting in the CA!!!
I refuse to drink in cashless pubs as well, which will probably make me teetotal in the near future Â
Weather looks ok today so that 'to do' list is going to get shortened, hopefully Â
Morning all. SM run in a bit and then I might go across and help my neighbour prune her roses. She is terrified to do it herself and there's only 2 to be done because the others were done when we did some repotting.
Hello SGL and Rosie. Lovely to see you both. Keep popping in when technology and circumstances permit🙂
I'm finding this transitional period between cash and cashless quite frustrating. I'm a big fan of cashless and suspect the fiver in my purse might have been there since before Covid.
I've rarely carried much cash and love the fact that it's now 'acceptable' to pay for a £1.50 bar of chocolate with a card. Hate it when I get to a car park and have to try and find £1.75 in loose change because the machines don't take cards.
MIL still uses cheques and cash and a birthday or Christmas cheque would often lie around for several weeks waiting for somebody to go to town and queue up at the bank. Being able to pay those cheques in using the mobile banking app from the big CA is one of the best inventions out there - ever. Love it.Â
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I don't know if we'll have pancakes today, Shrove Tuesday, as we have been invited to dinner with friends.
We enjoyed meeting the new couple in our village when we went for coffee with a friend. They are planning to live here in the winter and in France in the summer. They are quite a bit north of us in France.
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LB, I like Snoopy cartoon about Monday. Yesterday was beautiful spring day, and I spent it cleaning my neighbor garden. This is lady which husband passed few months ago, and she comes here only during summer.
I have now my tea and slightly getting ready for school. Outside is thick and cold sea fog. I'm planning shopping trip next Friday, and also visit to few GC. I'm in search for new clematis. Â
Wish you all nice day and see you this afternoon. Â
 @debs64 thank you. Hope your fiance is enjoying his new job and everything is going well.Â
Lily I hope your boiler man comes soon after 10 then you can get on with your day .Look after yourself .
Yes - a proper cheque @Ladybird4
I refuse to drink in cashless pubs as well, which will probably make me teetotal in the near future
Weather looks ok today so that 'to do' list is going to get shortened, hopefully
Hello SGL and Rosie. Lovely to see you both. Keep popping in when technology and circumstances permit🙂
I'm finding this transitional period between cash and cashless quite frustrating. I'm a big fan of cashless and suspect the fiver in my purse might have been there since before Covid.
I've rarely carried much cash and love the fact that it's now 'acceptable' to pay for a £1.50 bar of chocolate with a card. Hate it when I get to a car park and have to try and find £1.75 in loose change because the machines don't take cards.
MIL still uses cheques and cash and a birthday or Christmas cheque would often lie around for several weeks waiting for somebody to go to town and queue up at the bank. Being able to pay those cheques in using the mobile banking app from the big CA is one of the best inventions out there - ever. Love it.Â
I don't know if we'll have pancakes today, Shrove Tuesday, as we have been invited to dinner with friends.
We enjoyed meeting the new couple in our village when we went for coffee with a friend. They are planning to live here in the winter and in France in the summer. They are quite a bit north of us in France.