My Bank Has Sent Me A New Cheque Book
In the last three years, I think I’ve written two cheques and I’ve received even less than that!
So why does my bank waste money sending me a new cheque book?
After all, if it had gone missing in the post, as one or two other letters have in the past year, and had got in the hands of fraudsters, the bank would have had a big mess to sort out.
I just logged in to my bank account to see how many cheques I written in the last three years. It wouldn’t tell me, as the start date was too far in the past.
Useless!
But even then the two cheques I could find, were totally anonymous and could only be identified by going to paper accounts. Wwhich in this computerised age, I don’t have.
Totally useless!
Cheques should only be people with heritage, genes or birthplace from a country in Central Europe.
I’m very tempted to take the new cheque book and leave it on a park bench and see what happens! I would of course send a letter to my bank, saying that I don’t do cheques and would they please bounce any that are attempted to be cashed. And of course to stop wasting money by sending me new cheque books.
An Offer I Can Refuse
This morning, when I logged into my bank account, they were saying they had some special offers tailored specially for me.
Am I alone in refusing any offer from a bank? Except of course, things that are free improvements to their current service.
What they were offering me, I don’t know, as I’m so cynical about banks, I didn’t bother to read the offers.
Not All Estate Agents Are Successful!
Despite the good name, this one seems to have failed.
Not All Estate Agents Are Successful!
A pity really, as you can’t have too many estate agents. That way, you might get one who is actually good at the job.
Food Or Surveillance?
I saw this van on Upper Street in Islington.
Food Or Surveillance?
Is it Kennedy Spies or Kennedy’s Pies?
We Need A Duty-Free By-Pass At Airports
Oslo Airport had one of the largest duty free areas I’ve seen in a long time. It was very crowded too, with passengers trailing cases and carrying overflowing baskets.
I found it difficult to walk through and it was a completely wasted few minutes, that I could have spent much better.
It’s all totally pointless, as if duty-free was banned on flights and passengers bought their duty free as they arrived in a country, airlines wouldn’t waste fuel flying all that useless junk around the skies.
I wonder how much duty free contributes to global warming?
The EU should make it the law, that every airport has a by-pass for those, who don’t want to buy any duty-free.
And was there anything to eat that was gluten-free in the airport? I didn’t see anything that was!
Oslo’s Tourist And Transport Information
There is a lot of transport information in Oslo, but much of it, is not really geared at tourists and especially those that walk everywhere like me. Here’s some examples.
Note that the bus timing information is in the stop itself and the clock in the train information.
But there were no walking maps and you needed to have a paper guide or book in your hand.
A Missed Opportunity
Was it? But some years ago, I backed a guy making something called a TEBA brush mat. The company failed, but judging by these examples in Oslo, mats are being sold under another guise.
I’ve been lucky in life, but perhaps this is one place, where I didn’t do as well as I should have.
Endless Bits Of Paper
Queue in Norway and Sweden and you always seem to have to get a ticket with a number on it.
but I suppose, they have plenty enough trees to make the paper for the tickets.
The Museums On The Bygdøy Peninsular
There are several museums on the Bygdøy Peninsular.
I took a ferry to see two of them; the Viking Ship Museum and the Fram Museum.
I would have gone to the other two; the Kon-Tiki Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum, but the weather had turned and I was suffering a bit from the cold.
There is a lot to see on the peninsular and I wish I’d been able to devote more time to it. I think it would be easier, if on the peninsular, there was better signposts and maps and perhaps a bus on a route past all the attractions. An inclusive ticket for all the attractions on the peninsular would save time too!
The Anonymous Widower 