Saturday, 22 May 2021
Adjusting!
I have been out to walk around my garden which has mostly survived the onslaught! It is very quiet out there..... none of the other houses had inhabitants last night. Even the cock has stayed silent! The traffic on the road is also much diminished. Saturday here is usually very busy with families departing to be replaced by new ones...we shall see if today follows that pattern! I have looked in the fridge and I am in no danger of starving...far from it! But its a strange Saturday...I had to check earlier to be reassured that it really is Saturday....all day! Yesterday I paid my gardener....in actual money since I found he was not cashing any cheques...so sometime soon I have to go to the village to get some cash. Hopefully the cash machine is still working! Wandering around the village used to be a pleasure. Now its full! People everywhere! At least thats what it was like last time! Despite that though stories are reaching me of businesses failing...hotels having to close though they seem to reopen quite quickly. We are all adjusting to change! Some are better at it than others! I can do this! I think!
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It is a fact that many cash points are being closed or being converted to ones that charge you for making a withdrawal of your own cash. I hope that those in Cornwall are not suffering from this attack of greed from the Banks, who are also closing branches wholesale across the UK. They seem to have abandoned the idea of serving customers locally and expect you to travel long distances to access a branch or to choose to do everything on line. They ignore the needs of those people without bank accounts or small businesses who need cash, change for their customers. My bank has closed all local branches and if I need to go to it, I end up in a line and wait upto 30 minutes to speak to a cashier. They tell me I can phone the head office, but you can't pay in cheques or cash at the head office.
The cashless society beckons, and your poor gardener will suffer along with the rest of us eventually.
And glad to read how positive you sound now. Long many it last.
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