Abbey Bank (On Line)

I was reading an article about on line banking and identity theft last night. Then this morning I needed to pay a bill so I went on line to our Abbey account. £888.68 was missing. Now a sum like that you would remember spending and neither of us had any recollection of nipping into the local off licence and buying a few bottles of beer to see us over the weekend and we can still get into the kitchen without falling over 30 cases of Tennent's XXXX .

Being Sunday I have not been able to contact Abbey to find out what is going on. But the bill still needed to be paid. Not to worry, I have a second account with Abbey. I keep a few pounds in there for the odd emergency, and this does sound like an odd emergency. Guess what? When I first checked all was as expected. Enough money in the account to pay the bill. So a cup of coffee later I went back to pay the bill and it wouldn't work. Back into the statement and £888.68 has now gone missing. Do I see a patten emerging somewhere?

So if you have an account with Abbey, or any other on line banking, I would check it NOW.

My credit card still seems to be functioning but I haven't tried it in a hole in the wall yet.

I will keep you posted.

Vote Now

The Herald Express is running a vote on it's on-line version. The question people in their thousands, well 210 so far have been voting about is Fleet Street and buses. Fleet Street is part pedestrianised and part bus lane,45 buses a hour run up and down it. The Herald is trying to jump on the perennial bandwagon once more and lead a crusading campaign to get rid of the buses. Anyway at the moment the vote is going badly for the buses with 67% voting against buses in Fleet Street, that's 140 out of a population of 145 000 in the Bay. The vote has been running for over a week which would suggest the idea is a dead duck. It just isn't going to happen; not unless the roadway collapses suddenly under one of the poor unfortunate buses.

That's 33 tonnes worth of buses very close together there outside the Ed Wool Shop. Any sign of any cracks?

Thank You 200 000 Times

Sorry I haven't been blogging recently, not exactly been on top of the world. In fact it took a reader to point out I had gone over the 200 000 mark. Thank you to all of you and I hope to be up and posting in a few days.

From Reuters

In case you missed this item from the nation newspapers about an incident on a Greyhound Bus in Canada.

Bus Overturns In Poole, Dorset.

It is very unusual for a bus to overturn as most of the weight is low down but in Poole which is just up the coast from Torquay and like Torquay is a holiday town an open top bus went of the road following a collision involving two other vehicles. The driver of one of the other vehicles was arrested on suspicion of Dangerous Driving. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt in the incident.

Click here for an account and video provided by the BBC.