Use the water cannon and rubber bullets tonight please Mrs May.It all looks so bad my American cousins are asking me if I need refuge with them.
HSBC Secure Card Problems
It has taken me 24 hours to get into my account.Collected another card from my local branch.Note they made no security checks before handing it over. They failed to give me a new replacement code so more time spent phoning India to get one.
HSBC have imposed this system on their customers regardless of whether they have the capacity to manage it. It is alleged that even blind customers have received them.
Hours of my time wasted on this.
HSBC Secure Card Disaster
This silly little card is a disaster.I am now locked out of my bank account. Hopeless for older people with arthritic fingers and short sight.
Lengthy phone call via the Indian subcontinent has failed to help.
Will visit local branch of HSBC tomorrow and insert it into someone
Orient Express Steam Day
Took a trip on an Orient Express Pullman service train from London to Bristol to celebrate a significant birthday.This was a train ride done the way things used to be with a steam engine and ultra comfortable coaches .A table for two with immaculate service for brunch and dinner were included in the ticket price.
Leaving Victoria station at 9 a.m. we ambled through the English countryside stopping to pick up water supplied by a fire engine .Passengers could get off and see this.Remembered what hard work it was seeing the stokers and fireman shoveling coal to build up steam.
Our destination was Bristol.Taken by coach on arrival to see Brunel's suspension bridge and then a guided tour of his steam ship in dry dock, beautifully restored. Back to the train for the return journey to London to find our table ready with canapes and cold champagne, followed by a good dinner.If like Grandpa you like trains you will love this.
The Wizard of Oz
A brilliant show at the London Palladium for Grandmas to visit with grandchildren.Witches fly round the auditiorium, snow flakes fall on the audience, the tornado is terrific and the music is hummable .Treat them to a pair of Ruby Slippersocks as a souvenir.
Danielle Hope has a nice voice and is sweet but this Grandma first saw the film 65 years ago aged 5;there will never be a Dorothy as charismatic as Judy Garland again.
Full house when we were there,this is an experience children love, get them away from the TV and computer screen.
Cambridge Restaurant Midsummer House
This restaurant has 2 Michelin stars. Eating here is a lovely experience.The menu is served as a range of small quantities of utterly delicious dishes over about 6 courses to everyone at the table.Professional restaurant food- not home cooking.
Be careful with the array of wines-- better to choose one good bottle to enjoy throughout the meal than be overwhelmed by about 5 glasses .I saw one lady with her head in her hands unable to cope.
Check the price of the wines before choosing--champagne can be £ 350 per bottle.
Cambridge and Tourists
If you are accompanying a group of young people please tell them to show respect when entering churches and chapels
- Photography is generally permitted but not during services.Posing for photos in mocking positions in front of paintings or a cross may seem funny to you but is very offensive to Christians who worship in the churches-Japanese visitors please note this.
- It is the custom to form a line when waiting to be served in a shop or cafe.Pushing in front of waiting people is considered rude.
- Crowding the entrances to streets and buildings, pushing people off the pavement (sidewalk)is inconsiderate to frail older people and mothers with small children.
- If you hire a bicycle learn the traffic signs.
GRANDMA DAILY: News of The World -Vince Was Right
GRANDMA DAILY: News of The World -Vince Was Right: "See how easy it was for Murdoch to close down this piece of popular culture. You may not have liked the NOTW but a free and challenging pr..."
News of The World -Vince Was Right
See how easy it was for Murdoch to close down this piece of popular culture.
You may not have liked the NOTW but a free and challenging press is part of a democratic society.He has taken this action to protect a small number of his favourites and their corrupt malign influence.Murdoch has had little regard to the employees who have been instantly dismissed, the newspaper sellers and vendors who have relied on it for their income and the public liked reading it.
I remember my grandmother enjoying this paper and I am seventy years old.
Our government must address the issue of BSkyB and halt the dealings for Murdoch to take it over right now.
Remember Vince Cable's comments a few weeks ago-- he was then banned from bringing his influence to bear in the matter. Vince was right.
You may not have liked the NOTW but a free and challenging press is part of a democratic society.He has taken this action to protect a small number of his favourites and their corrupt malign influence.Murdoch has had little regard to the employees who have been instantly dismissed, the newspaper sellers and vendors who have relied on it for their income and the public liked reading it.
I remember my grandmother enjoying this paper and I am seventy years old.
Our government must address the issue of BSkyB and halt the dealings for Murdoch to take it over right now.
Remember Vince Cable's comments a few weeks ago-- he was then banned from bringing his influence to bear in the matter. Vince was right.
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