Malta Vacation

Lovely hot sunny weather. Have found local Marks and Spencer, useful as pool sandals have collapsed.
For somewhere cheap and reliable to eat try Eddy's in the centre  of Valletta. Lasagne for 2 plus half a bottle of wine and 2 large coffees came to 25 Euros.As this was Saturday night there was also an entertainer. Ghastly
retrospective stuff, Elvis, Cliff Richards etc but the waiters' comments reduced me to helpless laughter. Worth the agony for this.

Malta Vacation 3

 We are there.Air Malta better than expected, hard working crew and comfortable seats.Glad we chose the Phoenicia Hotel , very nice room on recently refurbished third floor. Exemplary housekeeping, nice food. The swimming pool is unfussy, very clean and well appointed bar area .Hot sunny weather, no noisy kids, they are all back at school.Very easy to walk into Valetta for shopping and local restaurants.

Getting Ready for Malta Vacation 2

Return of several garments bought on Friday, care home appearance of night wear off putting-- made satisfactory exchange.Easy to return stuff to Marks and Spencer.

Holiday Preparations for Malta

It  always  takes me as long to get ready go on holiday as the time I spend taking the break.

Just going to Malta for a week has taken hours online checking airline baggage allowances-- a lady's purse counts as one piece of hand baggage and must  fit into your cabin bag  with Air Malta , where do airlines think women keep tickets, boarding pass, money, passport -up our knickers? You need these things to hand. We do not have pockets in our clothes like men.

Frantic buying of new bras, panties, nighties and so on as old stuff is too worn out to be seen in the closet of a posh hotel ( The Phoenicia). Old swim suit smells like an aged bath mat so a couple of those too.

Have a wind up cell phone charger-- whenever we go away stuff happens.Malta quite close to Libya.

Time to cram it all into the cases.

London Riots

Driving down Camberwell Road I was shocked to see how many shops were boarded up, many peoples' businesses and living accomodation wrecked.

I have no time for the bleeding hearts who claim poverty had a part.It was not loaves of bread that were stolen .Carefully selected stores selling electrical goods, phones, trainers, sports goods and jewellery were targetted.

The fire raisers  kept the emergency services busy and attacked them while the hudlums and gangsters took control of the streets.

This must stop. Ordinary people cannot live in fear of one group in the community who lack self control and moral standards.

Magistrates and judges please give the harshest sentences you can.Stop the hand outs and let the looters and those who receive the stolen goods try a real dose of starvation.

Essentials List

Things I must do before midnight

• Make plum jam
• Clear cupboards for fitting of newly ordered washing machine (Bosch).Comet very helpful when making this purchase.
• Tackle ironing pile
• Cook dinner -chicken with bacon, side salad, fries and rhubarb and ginger crumble dessert
• Check Ocado order before 6pm
• Stop doing this blog

HSBC Secure Card Problems Resolved

Have got this card functioning at last.

It requires 8 separate and correctly answered steps before you can get into your online account every time you use it for anything.

Have a pencil and paper ready.

As soon as the new number appears on your secure card write it down fast. It disappears in seconds-- get part way through it as you put it online and you are completely stuffed if you cannnot remember it.

You may have to ask the nodding Chinese idiot woman a question online then.

London Riots

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