Tuesday 27th November 2018

We took Ellie for her walk and then drove to Deal as I am having my hair coloured tomorrow so I had to go for a patch test. Meanwhile Mal went to post our cards and presents to go abroad. That’s those done.

On the way back to the car we decided to call into Nationwide to see what they had to say about the identical amount being taken from my account for the petrol I purchased at Sainsbury last week. I contacted Nationwide online but heard nothing. The Manager couldn’t find anything on his system that they had replied so he said he would look, even though this couldn’t happen. Half an hour later he agreed, it shouldn’t happen but it had but he couldn’t find out how. He called their Head office. It seems one was taken by contactless and the other by chip and pin. Again he said this was impossible. Finally head office decided this was Sainsbury’s system that was at fault so we needed to contact them. BEWARE using your cards and paying at the pump.

Mal then contacted Sainsburys and they said if he takes a screen shot of my account in then they will refund one amount!! I seriously wonder how many other people this has happened to and how many never bother to check their accounts. I don’t check that often.

I then dropped Mal back home and on to Westwood for my weekly lunch meet with Rhys. We went to the Hooden Horse again as it was nice last week. Tuesday is “Big Plate Special ” day and they have all their “large dish” menus for £6!! Rhys chose the gammon and that was 15 ounces of gammon! I think Rhys enjoyed it.

We then went for a walk around Westwood to walk our lunch off. We looked at Christmas trees and vinyl flooring , possibly for our bathroom.

Thought for the Day – “Do your little bit of good wherever you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”