With the Coronation Financial institution Vacation as properly, that is the third Monday BH of the month. Why did he need to get topped in Might – every other month would have unfold out the BH weekends a bit higher!
We get much less days off than many different international locations anyway- very unfair I used to suppose when Colin was working for the County Council – after all as soon as retired, daily is a vacation?!
Some Shares purchased off the market have been my Flowers on the Desk for a part of this week ,though they did not final lengthy, with some pretty Spirea from the backyard to replenish the jug.
I maintain hoping that one thing will develop for me to have my very own Flowers on the Desk however do not actually have sufficient of something and the roses are coated in greenfly once more.
Had an annoying letter this week telling me that Barclays Financial institution in Diss is closing in August. They’ve already closed the one in Stowmarket (and Eye and Debenham and virtually each different a number of years in the past) so the place on earth do I am going now if I need a bag filled with £1 cash for automobile boot gross sales! I opened my checking account with them after I began work at 16 and hadn’t modified just because they’d branches in all places we lived and it value me nothing to have an account there. Now the one Constructing Society/Financial institution in each Stowmarket and Diss is Nationwide they usually’ve irritated me too by altering guidelines on their Financial savings Bond in order that month-to-month curiosity cash cannot be paid into every other account – which I used to be utilizing to high up my month-to-month pension. Appears to me these days they only suppose – “B*g**r the shopper!
75p was spent on a pot of Basil from Aldi this week to do my normal factor of persuading the cuttings to root in water and turning them into vegetation which is a lot simpler than rising from seed. (I am grateful yearly for locating this tip on a weblog)
I additionally purchased a pot of Parsley for a similar worth and have divided the seedlings so some are within the floor and a few in pots. They need to develop and final all summer season.
This week I have been grateful for
- Seeds sown
- Vegetation rising
- Spending a day with Center Grandson – the three yr previous dinosaur professional!
- Good books
Hope you all have a very good Lengthy/Quick weekend – relying on the place you reside.
I will be again on Monday
Sue
