O frabjous day!

After two weeks hanging off the telephone to my Bank I think that things are finally sorted.  Some light crept in on the problem when I found that I was two people and I was locked out when I gave the wrong answers to a security question because the question was set by Person 1 and I had morphed into Person 2.

We have now killed off Person 1 and my test money transfer went through without any problems.  So I need not have bought my so-new mobile phone for which its 'book of works' is still pending.  No doubt there will be a time when I will not regret having spent all that money although SIL says that it should be a tax deduction because I need it for my banking.

I would like to say at this juncture that the 'help people' at MacQuarie Bank have been, throughout, friendly and helpful and although we seem to have come full circle I will be endlessly grateful for their help and patience.

I realised a couple of days ago that my drivers' license was due to expire next week so I made a trip to the Department of Transport by the first free train, figuring that so early on a Monday morning in such horrible weather there would not be a crowd.  There were some people ahead of me and a queue was forming by the time I had organised a replacement so that is another tick off my list.  There are a couple of things pending on my to-do list but nothing urgent and nothing as difficult as my on-line banking problems.

D2 has moved her car out of my secure parking place because the secure parking areas are going to be cleaned tomorrow.  I was too tired yesterday to help her with getting a new battery installed and cleaning the greasy drip trays.  Her cars are all incontinent so the drip trays are essential.

I am still in semi-lockdown and everyone is very good about not getting too close and there are bottles of hand sanitiser at the entrances to all the shops and all the shopping trolleys and baskets are sanitised before being handed to me.  Western Australia still has a closed border and D1 will probably not be able to come to stay at Christmas time which is sad.  Maybe next year.  Anyone coming into the State must quarantine for 14 days.

The Limerick:-

This is an old one but so good that it bears repetition . . .

I sat next to the duchess at tea,
It was just as I feared would be.
Her rumblings abdominal
were simply phenomenal,
And everyone thought it was me.

Full of Sound and fury, Signifying Nothing.

I finally had the National Broadband Network (NBN) connected last Tuesday after a week of working with a dying Hotspot which was revived by a man from the Telstra Shop and using my Surface Pro and i-Pad I was able to access the internet but had no fixed line telephone so I had to replace my banana phone with a Samsung fancy one with all manner of bells and whistles which I have no idea how to use.  Luckily I had saved my contacts to card so they are all on my new phone

The first disaster was when I lost my Kobo account, opened another one which I could not access either after which Kobo seems to have died altogether.  Now I have been denied access to my main bank account.  My credit cards still work and I can fall back on writing cheques again but I feel all at sea as things fall down around me.

I spent over an hour talking to the bank in Sydney this morning and they will try to investigate why my account no longer recognises me and I have spoken to my financial advisor who has, hopefully, still got access and can transfer money to my cheque and credit accounts.  Now I just have to sit back and wait.  Meanwhile Techie will probably come by and check for nasties on the hard drive.  It is his invoice for connecting me to the NBN which I stumbled over; the bank refused to allow the money transfer and refused to accept that I knew the answers to my secret questions.  I know which school I went to, dammit!

We are having an amazing autumn and winter so far with temperatures in the 20s but with very cold nights and we have had a couple of quite severe storms  It looks as though the coming week will be wet.

I have had the results of my bone marrow biopsy and they were as expected so no surprises there and I am to have another blood test and appointment with the hematologist in three months after which I will be monitored every six months unless things deteriorate which hopefully they will not.  D2 came with me to ensure that I could question her in detail afterwards if I have any queries.

The Limerick:-

"I must leave here," said Lady de Vere,
"For these damp airs don't suit me, I fear,"
Said her friend, "Goodness me!
If they do not agree
With your system, why eat pears, my dear?"

. . . and all our yesterdays have lighted fools

I had my bone marrow biopsy on Thursday morning without sedation.  The doctor told me that the only thing which could disturb me was the prick of the needle administering the local anaesthetic and that if I had sedation it would take four hours but without it would only be one hour.  

Just after it was finished a rather dishevelled woman rushed into my room and asked me if it really didn't hurt.  After my re-assurance she rushed out again.  I can only assume that she was a nervous patient who had been sent in by the doctor to re-assure her as she seemed to be a bit panicked.

I will get the verdict next Wednesday  but a week today  -  next Tuesday  -  I am having the NBN installed and hopefully I will be able to keep my phone number.  iiNet has assured me that I will be able to keep it but I know of a couple of people who had to fight to keep their phone numbers .  At least iiNet now knows where I live and Custom Strata has told me how to direct the technician to the 'secure electrical box' to make the connection.

It will take four hours and during that time I will not have a phone connection but I can live with that.  Four hours without the internet will be harder but I have a 

'hotspot' and will have it charged up  -  although there is a certain horrible sameness about the news out of USA now which I am already tired of watching so maybe a good book will be the way to go.

On Thursday Custom Strata is holding an Extra-ordinary Annual General Meeting of the Owners Committee on Zoom.  It seems to be an exercise to see if future meetings can be held that way so I have loaded Zoom, sent in a proxy and told Custom Strata that if I can get into the meeting I will be a silent witness.  As there is no agenda I am not going to miss much if the connection doesn't work; my I-Pad was reluctant to let me load the programme as it does not recognise my fingerprint but finally gave in and loaded the app.

It has been a busy week . . .

I am starting to get Cabin Fever so if the weather holds up  -  and from the forecast it will  -  I might have another try at walking around Lake Claremont.  After the weather we had last weekend there should be some water in it again.

The Limerick:-

A fanatic gun-lover named Crust

Was perverse to the point of disgust.

His idea of a peach

Had a sixteen-inch breech

And a pearl-handled .44 bust.