Today I deleted from my iPhotos, all the images featured in
but only two of those in
Yesterday I had been advised to try my non-functioning bank card in an ATM and follow directions to unblock it. I had no confidence in my ability to do that so I visited the nearest still accessible branch of my bank in Lymington to seek help. Fortunately we were able to park right outside, but were required to pay by card at a machine. I left Jackie struggling to work out how to do this while I presented my problem to a teller inside. He was unable to unblock it so will order me a new pin. It hadn’t been just me, then. When I left the bank Jackie was still struggling to interpret the machine operation. This meant we didn’t pay. In soccer parlance that was a result.
This afternoon I read more of ‘Anglo-Saxon England’.
This evening we reprised Jackie’s beef pie meal with fresh vegetables, accompanied in her case by more of the Fiano Salento, and in mine by Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2022.
Is it the colour blue you don’t like?
Wot?
So sorry for your problems with your bank card!
You made the right choice in going to the bank first, rather than trying on your own at an ATM first, which likely would have resulted in you going to the bank after all. It’s good to get a sense of things before too much time is spent. Poor Jackie at the pay station though. If it’s that much of an obstacle, I think it’s appropriate to leave it unpaid!
Thanks very much Crystal
I love the Victorian home, very beautiful!
Thank you very much, John
What a pain with the bank card! It’s good you went to the bank.
That house is beautiful. I guess that was from before I started reading your blog. It was good to see your mom again, too. xx
Yes – 2012. Thanks very much, Merril
What a pain with the bank card! I hope the bank can fix it for you once and for all.
Thank you very much, Liz
You’re welcome, Derrick.
Ever so sorry about your bank/card problems. If it’s any consolation, I started with computers half a century ago, but now? There isn’t a week I don’t have to struggle with one application or the other. It’s getting worse every day…
A beautiful photo of a gorgeous (and HUGE) Victorian house! 🙂
So good to see your mum and her birthday celebration in that older post! 🙂
Sorry to hear about the bank card issues. 🙁 Hope it is all straightened out now. I always appreciate an actual-live-person helping me with such issues and not having to deal with yet another computer or another machine, etc. 🙂
(((HUGS))) and ❤️❤️ for Jackie and you!!
PS…now I’m thinking of an old joke…A little girl called to her mother in the middle of the night. The mother went into the little girl’s bedroom to see what was wrong. The little girl had had a bad dream and wanted her mother to stay with her. The mom hugged her and said, “Well, remember that God is ALWAYS with you.” The little girl replied, “Yeah, well, sometimes I need somebody with skin on them.” 🙂
Alas, so do I…I so appreciate the humans who can help us when we have problems with computers, banking, machines, instructions, paperwork, etc. 🙂
Thank you so much from each of us, Carolyn XX
Here’s to better luck with the next card.
Thanks very much, Tootlepedal
Derrick.. I have had the same problem. My only bank card I could actually draw money with from machines stopped accepting my password. I went to the bank and made a new password but it still wouldn’t work. They issued a new card, I made a password. it didn’t work. Made another password and it still didn’t work. By then I’d spent 3 trips to the banks, 5 hours total working with different advisers and talking to Mexico City. Finally they sent me another card and I set a password and miracle of miracle..it works. None of my American cards will work to draw money, however. Just to make purchases in stores. Drives me crazy! Glad yours now works.
Thank you very much for that solidarity, Judy
It’s self satisfying to know that the card,s problem was not your fault, Derrick
Thank you very much, Ivor
All’s well that ends well. Gorgeous house and wonderful photos!
Thanks very much, MM
Those cards are designed to frustrate and perplex us. That’s a beautiful building.
Thank you very much, Gary
Those parking meters are awful! I’m sorry both you and Jackie had such a fraught time today and also that you have to wait even longer until you have a working bank card. I recently lost my cheque card holder containing all my bank cards and store cards. Not being able to pay for anything, except with cash, was very frustrating!
Thank you so much, Clare
I feel your pain.
Thank you very much, Pat
Technology can be so frustrating sometimes. I’m glad you went into the bank to ask for help and that you didn’t have to pay to park. I enjoyed seeing the picture of your mum with the big cake. 🙂
Thank you very much, JoAnna
I could quite comfortably live in that Victorian ‘cottage’. As for ‘Banks’ where the customer with an account balance less that a couple of Million is no longer welcome I recently cancelled my account with a bank I have been with for over fifty years and opened an account with a much smaller bank and have never been happier. Any time I walk into my new bank someone smiles and says, ‘Good morning John.’
That is a heartening bank story, John. Thank you very much.
Hello Derrick. I’m glad you went to the bank. So wasn’t you. 😁. Thank God you didn’t stay home and try… Could have been very frustrating.
It’s always something, isn’t it?!
Yep. Thanks very much, GP
At least you won free parking. We are listening to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-history-a-dynasty-to-die-for/id1641568639 w2hile we drive. He is very amusing. Please try one and see if you like it. I paid to get it add free.
Thanks very much again, Sherry. I will
I’m sorry the bankcard wasn’t sorted. On the plus side, at least you’ll be able to change the new PIN to one that’s more memorable. I enjoyed following the other two links.
Thank you very much, Sue
I am glad at least you got to park at no charge. I hope you get a reprieve from troubles soon, Derrick and Jackie.
Thank you so much from each of us Lavinia
Bugger about your pin, but congrats on your ‘result’ … these days we take a win where we can find one, eh? 😀
Absolutely, Widders. Thank you so much
Love the house. Sorry about the pin, they are a bit prickly.
🙂 Thanks very much, Cindy
In a word, ugh! It takes forever to get these things sorted.
Thank you so much, Alys
Technology can be such a pain when it doesn’t work!
I like the British soccer parlance. I may adopt it.
Thank you very much, Dolly. It is similar to the use of ‘quality’, as in ‘quality used cars’ – always meaning ‘good quality’
I always thought that “quality used cars” was an oxymoron.
You are very welcome, Derrick.
🙂
The free parking was a bonus. I have stopped going places as i am afraid of the technology of these new machines. Not that I went far for some years before they introduced them.
Understood, Quercus. Thank you very much
I really should try to embrace technology. Why don’t hackers attack councils instead of the Coop?
I hate it when I can’t sort something out myself which then requires a trip to the provider.
Me, too. Thanks very much, Sheree