16th November, 2024.
Right … exciting things have been known to happen.
On Fridays, certainly.
My nephew was over, last night: and managed to upload another game video.
If you’d like to press the ‘Like’ button?
He’d thank you for it.
On other fronts?
I’ve actually had a thing fitted: to help me get into the bath.
It’s basically a bath mounted office chair I can sit in, and swivel around.
The only minor problem … ?
I need a step-stool to get to it!
Ho … … hum … !
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Oh, I’ve got a delivery coming: from Apple.
And had a message, via WhatsApp, from DHL: to let me know it’s on it’s way, and that I’d need to sign for it.
It’s genuine: I have checked.
But … ?
I did manage to check the tracking number DHL gave me.
The package … … … was in Shenzhen, in China.
深圳市, for heaven’s sake!
When I checked, a few hours later … ?
It was in Hong Kong.
I hate to use the word ‘premature’.
But the word, ‘premature’, springs to mind!
Especially as the package arrives at Stansted, next week … !
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Just as a last thought … ?
I’ve officially been sent a letter from Brentwood Council: giving me a refund of Council Tax.
Which is nice.
But … ?
You can take the bills into your local post office: and pay them there.
There’s a bar code on the things that lets you do that.
There’s a bar code on the refund that should — in theory — let us claim the refund at a post office.
But? According to the phone conversation I had with a worker at Brentwood Council?
We can’t.
We have to have the refund paid into a bank, and apply online.
I can appreciate it’s a security thing.
But, frankly?
There’s a good chunk of my neighbours who aren’t going to be able to do that.
They’re not computer literate enough: even for a comparatively simple task like this.
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