Banking

Yesterday my lovely cleaners came; the senior one just back from a week in Portugal (the Algarve). After, TBSITW called round for a chat clutching 2 bottles of the famous Noilly Prat and also the famous potted meat from the butcher in a near by village. Of course I had it for my evening meal served with potato, carrot, turnip and steamed tender stem broccoli and leek. It was delicious, quite peppery where it is often bland. You put the potted meat on top of the potato and it melts into it. Mmmmm.

Some time back I had to cancel a credit card as it was lost. I use Credit Card Protection, so I called the company and asked them to cancel the card and request a new one. It has been almost two weeks and the replacement has still not arrived so I called to discover that, yes, it had been cancelled and a new account number applied, but nobody had ordered a replacement card. It is now, supposedly, on its way.

I have two credit cards and manage them on line, so when I discovered that the last 5 or so purchases had not been posted I worried that the card protection people had cancelled both cards. This morning I called the bank and after I had gone through the "if you are calling about x, press button 1" etc, and gone through all the security questions, they had a look and were able to confirm that all the "missing" ones had gone through.

The nice man asked me if I were on line and I said that I was and I was on the recent transactions page. Before he could say another word, I noticed that at the foot of the page there was a next page button. Because I usually use both credit cards and one was unavailable I had rather more transactions than usual on this one and had neither needed nor noticed that option. (In fact, I don't think it appears unless there is something posted on the following page).

Ooooops! Another senior moment!