What have you been doing today?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Nipped a few miles, in the car, to collect the replacement bottle of Gaslight, ordered last week, and £16 cheaper than from anywhere else, + an expedition to Iceland. Whilst there, tried again to put my £400 of surplus cash in my TSB account[1], at a different Post Office, and it was rejected again, so then tried it with the Nat West card and it was accepted. Making up, painting and beginning the fitting of slats, for a 'new' garden bench. We acquired the heavy, ancient cast-iron ends, whilst away on holiday, a couple of weeks ago, with rotted slats. Rain stopped play, mid-afternoon. Then Iceland's delivery truck, turned up with part of the order missing, so that had to be chased up.

[1] Rang TSB once back home, to see if they might be able to check why it was rejected, they suggested I must have got the card's pin wrong. I have used the same pin with the card for years, don't remember changing it, but maybe I did. I so rarely need to use the pin. I asked them to post me out a reminder. Then transferred the £400, from Nat West, to the TSB account, online.

 

[gas112]

sorting out a bank error were they transferred tens of thousands of pounds more than i asked them to luckily it was to the wife . i never noticed till later in the day she laughingly said thank you very much is it my birthday

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Fooled her!

The past week and a half, the dog has been waking at 6:30am, and insisting on waking me/us up, to get up with her. She reaches up and twangs the mattress, persistently, until you get up. You daren't ignore her, in case she wants desperately to go out, so up you get with her. Often as not, all she wants is her morning Denta-Stick chew. She gets the chew, then marches off with great-purpose, to lie on her bed to chew it, then promptly falls asleep for a few more hours.

Last night, we drew the bedroom blind, she had to be shaken to wake her up, at 8:30am this morning.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Walking through a supermarket car park this morning (it was Aldi, you don't tend to get Trots like these in Waitrose), I spied a sticker on the back window of a car.

Well..................... it just came away in my hand. Honest!

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• ReganAndCarter
• 23 Apr 2025

 

[MNW67]

sorting out a bank error were they transferred tens of thousands of pounds more than i asked them to luckily it was to the wife

OMG!

How did that happen. Was it done by phone.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

'New' bench all finished, so she decided the old one now looked shabby, and decided it needed repainting. Then she decided, it needed a good wash down, first, before painting, so I suggested pressure washing the best. That done, it led onto pressure washing the entire patio area.

Last night, after a few years of putting up with a really naff picture on the big living-room LG set, I/we finally got it set up on a decent picture setting. By , smaller default, on a reset, the picture was far too dim, I've tried numerous times, to brighten it up, but the facial tones ended up completely flat. None of the numerous preset picture modes were watchable - why, I have no idea. Last night, by much trial and error, I chose the HDR mode, which didn't allow any tweaking, then after switching off 'Smart Picture' mode, I found the tweaking could be done, and the settings would stick, even once the Smart Picture was turned back on.

I have two more LG sets, but strangely, the default settings on those are just fine.

 

[gas112]

OMG!

How did that happen. Was it done by phone.

nope face to face i repeated the amount twice she repeated it to me .
Then my fault she handed me bit of paper saying sign here and print there which i did without looking.
Mrs thought santa had come early . Teach me in future to double check
Mrs is into internet banking etc im a dinosaur so she transferred up to limit back last night and will do the rest later today .
Could have been a lot worse .oops

 

[Mottie]

Years ago, I went into my bank to draw out £250. I knew the lady behind the counter as she used to say hello when she walked past the workshop. "How would you like your cash"? She said. I jokingly replied "I’ll have nine fifties please" and she gave me £450! I jokingly said "Can you count"? She then realised she had paid me too much. Of course, I gave it back and she put it straight back in the drawer but boy, was she embarrassed.

 

[gas112]

Years ago, I went into my bank to draw out £250. I knew the lady behind the counter as she used to say hello when she walked past the workshop. "How would you like your cash"? She said. I jokingly replied "I’ll have nine fifties please" and she gave me £450! I jokingly said "Can you count"? She then realised she had paid me too much. Of course, I gave it back and she put it straight back in the drawer but boy, was she embarrassed.

in plumbcentre one day mate is paying his account several thousand quid i casually say just pay that into my account 3 hours later head office is phoning me asking why i have paid 750 quid more than was due .
I say i havent paid my account yet
yes you have you paid ££££ this morning .
Told her my mates trading title and told her i bet it matches what he owes .
yep guy behind counter had paid it into my account instead

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Yesterday, TV switched on and happened to be on TV sales/demo channel, so I watched a bit of it. They were demonstrating/selling an interesting gadget, for chopping, chipping and prepping fruit and veg - which they claimed sold for £70. I took a look on ebay, spotted the very same gadget for sale on ebay, for £8.39, and so ordered one.

Today spent pressure washing part of the drive, and giving the downstairs windows, their annual clean, whether they needed it or not.

Our elderly border collie, has for a few weeks, seemed to suffer asthmatic attacks, coughing, choking a bit, almost to the point of seeking the advice of a vet, but the past week or so, she has gradually got better without help. Guess it was just a doggy cold, or flu - I had something similar last week.

 

[Highway Man]

in plumbcentre one day mate is paying his account several thousand quid i casually say just pay that into my account 3 hours later head office is phoning me asking why i have paid 750 quid more than was due .
I say i havent paid my account yet
yes you have you paid ££££ this morning .
Told her my mates trading title and told her i bet it matches what he owes .
yep guy behind counter had paid it into my account instead

Plumbers are way to honest in my opinion.

 

[Mottie]

With a Robin having built a nest in the box in the back of the garden and with the blue tit birdbox camera still waiting for something to take up residence, I remembered that I had bought a Blink camera package in the Amazon Black Friday sale last year that I had never opened. I dug out the outdoor camera and after fiddling about with it I managed to set it up fairly easy. Set it up with a view of the box which has been gaining an egg a day for the last 3 days. Reading the instructions, the kit came with a sync module that allowed me to plug a memory stick into it for saving clips without the need for a subscription.

 

[Highway Man]

We have a family of foxes that live in our garden. We feed them every night. One of them sits staring in the window until we feed it.

 

[Highway Man]

 

[Mottie]

We have a family of foxes that live in our garden. We feed them every night. One of them sits staring in the window until we feed it.

Our friend does the same. She has 4 of them. Every night she goes out and gives 10 bangs on the tin and out they come. One had mange and she got some medicine from our local wildlife hospital and it’s looking very healthy now. Just recently, she has two badgers that join the foxes for their dinner!