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.

Tunstall village, Suffolk ~ watercolor demonstration

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.