I don't know. I am forced to restrict my comings and goings because of my broadband router going phut hiccough phut hiccough die. What do I find when I come back? You're all AWOL again. Have you not heard of fingers in dykes and holding the fort? Or are you all passed out on doatie's latest batch of poteen (what I never got sight of)?

BTW, I am slightly amazed that, at the beginning of the week, there was no mail but now they are on strike, stuff is rolling in. Still no replacement debit card though...

Same here, oddly. Mail arrived - three today - for orders practically before they're ordered. Sorry to say, I still have to pay for them.

I've been lucky enough to get .... notification of my pension, the form telling me to renew my car tax, the letter that says the house insurance is due, a card from the Vet that the cat needs booster jabs, an invitation to extend the warranty for my cooker, a reminder that my car is due it's first annual service and the car which was written off 15 months ago is due for it's first MOT( ) After that lot, I'm afraid I discarded the 3 begging circulars from various charities imploring me to save half the world for just 10p a day; £1 a week or £12 a month - especially since (apart from the cat bit) it could all be '.. done/booked online ..' which would have been great except somehow, despite firewalls, anti-spyware, anti-malware etc., my computer picked up a virus which managed - when printed out - to run to 8 pages of A4, caused the whole thing to go into catastrophic meltdown and cost me 35 quid to have removed.

If this is what happens during a postal strike, gawd 'elp me

You didn't receive my debit card by any chance did you?

It wouldn't get you very far I'm afraid, maybe as far as Birmingham.

You didn't receive my debit card by any chance did you?

No, I did. Wait till the statement arrives - eventually. Poteen all round.

That'll be 1,000 lines for you, my lad, plus a zillion Hail Maries and Our Fathers thrown in!

I did receive a grovelling apology (three pages of it) from one of the bureaucracies that let me down so badly over the last few months. Must be something to do with the full moon.

I want my debit card! NOW!!!

I want my debit card! NOW!!!

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

More likely, he's abusing your bank card, with Christmas coming up.


[More practically - and more accessible, just - wouldn't it make a lot of sense to try to get another card directly in the bank? Long ago, if I remember rightly, that's what I did when my own card disappeared into the ether while allegedly on its way here.]