Cash Point Machines
I do have a couple of issues with cash point machines, in that Some touch screens are a bit difficult to see and operate for me and I don’t like new £20 notes, as in one incident I gave someone forty by mistake and got the change for twenty.
on a rainy daya couple of weeks ago, I was passing Nationwide at the Angel and needed some money, so I went inside. They had installed a new machine inside and I found it a lot easier to use. It was also placed by a row of seats, so I could sit down, whilst I separated the £20 notes and buried them in the depths of my backpack.
So now, if I’m in that area, I’ll always go to that branch of my bank, Nationwide, if I need some cash. It may not be in their interest, as now I’ll get twenty or thirty out several times a week, instead of perhaps one lot of two hundred. But I do know, that I can do everything safely in the branch and don’t misplace my card, which I sometimes am wont to do.
As a comparison, I went into a friend’s bank with her and it wasn’t relaxed at all and there was nowhere to sit.
I had thought, that it was just this Nationwide branch at the Angel, that was deliberately spacious. However, I’ve since used Moorgate and High Holborn and found similar, although not identical designs. In fact in High Holborn yesterday, with the rain being biblical outside, one of the staff was virtually offering the branch to anybody who came in, as a haven of rest.
So are we seeing a change in banks attitudes, where customers are higher up the priority list? Some banking adverts say so, but are they just words and not deeds?
Lindsay Bareham Does It Again!
This is another of Lindsay Bareham’s Dinner Tonight recipes, from The Times on Thursday, and again it’s gluten-free.
The ingredients are as follows and the quantities serve two.
- 2 pollack fillets
- half a lemon
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 200g green beans
- 150g frozen petits pois
- Best olive oil
The method is as follows.
- Heat the oven to 200C/Gas Mark 6.
- Place the fish in a small roasting pan, splash with 2 tbsp olive oil and squeeze the lemon juice over. Season with salt and pepper.
- Roast for 6-10 minutes depending of the thickness of the fillets.
- Whilst the fish roasts halve the beans.
- Drop them into a pan of vigorously boiling water. Add a generous seasoning of salt and boil for 1 minute.
- Add the peas and boil for a further 2 minutes or until the peas are tender and the beans still al dente. Drain.
- Return the beans to the pan with 1 tbsp of your best olive oil. Toss thoroughly then pile in the middle of two warmed dinner plates.
- Drape a fillet of fish over the top, add the juices and a swirl of your best olive oil.
- Serve immediately offering sea salt flakes and the pepper mill.
I do wonder if Lindsay realises that most of her recipes are gluten-free.
But what the heck I’ll keep looking for them and trying them.
The Anonymous Widower 