16th October, 2022.
It’s official: I woke up this morning with an earworm.
Yes: Dutch girl band, Luv’, were dancing around my head: Trojan Horse was literally being a aural trojan house.
Thankfully, it’s now faded.
But I’m willing to bet something else will turn up, later.
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At any rate … ?
I had an adventure, yesterday.
Sort of.
You’ll possibly be aware that I — like so many others — are eligible for a £650 top up our benefits. And for £400 worth of help with our electricity bills.
That £400 is automatically credited to our bills for those of us paying by direct debit.
For those of us on smart, pay-as-you-go meters? It’s automatically added to our meters.
We get vouchers: ones we can ‘spend’ in pretty much the usual way.
Head for a shop with a PayPoint machine, hand over our card/key, and the voucher, and the shop assistant tops the card.
My first voucher?
Turned up, yesterday.
So, as I was heading into town, anyway … ?
I took it with me.
Figuring I could cash it in at one of the two shops with Paypoint terminals.
The first one … ?
The assistant happily admitted he had no clue how to put the thing through: but a colleague who did would be on shift later in the day, if I’d like to come back … ?
The second? At the other end of the High Street?
Had no idea, either: as his terminal wasn’t showing him what to do!
I sighed, told him not to worry, and went to pick up my medications.
And — on the way back home? — popped into my local Nisa’s, the only other place in the area with a PayPoint terminal.
It turns out they’d had a few people top up with there: and were able to do the transaction in a matter of minutes.
I’m feeling the irony.
I went all the way to the High Street to spend that voucher.
And indeed up cashing it in, around the corner … !
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Oh, JUST so you know?
I’ve finally caught up with Memento Mori, the fourth episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
It’s rather good!
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