@thelovebug
The someone will be Peter Piper. 😃

I went to the bank yesterday. Ahead of me in the queue were an elderly couple. They were depositing cheques into their account. Yup, cheques, plural. I hadn't realised cheques were still a thing.

When I got home, I got out my old chequebook. The last time I wrote a cheque it was October, 2010. Even that was an outlier. The previous cheque was written in 2007.

I was tempted to ask the couple why they were dealing with cheques, but, I had to deal with some even more old-fashioned cash.

#banks

For my North American readers, please note that check is spelled cheque. 😃

@ParadeGrotesque
To be fair, it was only ever one American, John McClane (Bruce Willis).

Also, I have no idea what the first bit means.

@clacke
Coming from an even smaller country, I'd just like to point out that her maternal grandfather was Scottish, which is where the Ferguson name comes from. 😃

@gemlog
Good gig, if you can secure one.

@tootbrute @clacke

We ended the day in the bar.
Unfortunately, it was boaring. 😃

My photo, in the previous post, doesn't do justice to the scale of the cask storage at this facility. There was, maybe, 50+ of these pyramids.

This wasn't on the Ordnance Survey map. 😱

#Scotland #DogWalk

Sadly, these were all empty casks.

#whisky #Scotland

@pandora
I'm not sure if these were already used, or about to be used. There wasn't anyone around I could ask.

One sometimes gets them in garden centres, cut in half, as use as plant pots. They're never cheap.

@thelovebug
Ten minutes is usually how long it takes me to read the précis on Wikipedia. That's usually enough for me to talk authoritatively about the book. 😃

@thelovebug
Yeah, but, are talking The Little Prince or War & Peace? 😃

@yngmar @Jkp
It's normally only BMW drivers that are allowed to park like that.

It's that time of year again when I receive loads of birthday greetings.

Not that it is my birthday. Whenever websites ask me for my birthdate I always provide the Unix Epoch Date, not my real one.

#NeverGiveOutYourRealData

@helenlockhart
It doesn't bother me, that much, as long as that is the limit of the physical contact. If anything else happened I might say or do something.

I've also noticed that the contact often happens when others are watching. It's as if there is a "possession" thing being demonstrated.

Of course, I might be blowing the whole thing out of proportion.

A new employee started 10 days a go. I've noticed she is very touchie-feelie. She is always putting her hand on my shoulder, and around my waist. It happens a good deal more than one might expect of someone just being friendly.

I'm not going to say anything, nor will I react. I'll see if it just stops after a while.

#work

@dajbelshaw
I'll only wear red, white and blue on Bastille Day.

@clacke
I cut open the plastic tubes, and scrape the remnants using the toothbrush (over several days).

@mansr

@clacke
Indeed, but, 2-3 months? Hyperbole?