A Stream of Semi-consciousness

What can go wrong will go wrong.  I had the German conversation gang here this morning - eight of us round the table.  It being my turn to h...

The bank story went from awful to ridiculous.  After trying for days by phone to reach the branch I'd sent the cheque to, they finally a...

I mentioned my struggle to get a savings account closed and the balance transferred.  The bank’s pop-up dame couldn’t deal with the cheque, ...

A fair bit of admin: the annual boiler service, a chat with our finance man, a bit of routine shopping, cooking and gardening.  Limited gard...

Well, they were actually too polite to laugh at my idea of planting a rosemary hedge to replace the box ditto, which was ravaged by the moth...

A couple of weeks ago, I contacted a building society asking to close my account and transfer the balance to my bank account.  I was told th...

Not a lot to report: we’ve each had reassuring reports from our latest medical sessions.  The garden is coming along nicely: Queen Elizabeth...