You can't bank on it

 We used to have several banks in our town and gradually they have closed one by one. Now we only have... one.

It is odd as the last two that closed were always busy.

Not everyone banks online or ever wants to.

November already

 The shops are beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Does anyone else visit shops We do and find it more depressing each year that fewer shops and certainly independent shops exist.

Amazon is sheer crap and anyone who blindly uses it thinking they are getting a cheap deal is wrong. Often the prices are more than in a local shop.

Reading

 It is exciting watching our Grandson learning to read. Being able to translate black squiggles into words must be amazing.

Especially as he has jumped two levels in a a week.

I remember the first book I read instead of a comic - it was an Enid Blyton compendium. Fantastic little stories.

The modern world

Accidentally my mobile phone dropped out of my pocket on the bus.

Unfortunately the bus was on its way to the cesspit that is Bristol. So it was stolen. Some months ago someone had dropped their phone on a bus and I handed it to the driver. It is the way of the world that is a rarity nowadays. There is so much scum around these days.

It is a real pain having to get a new phone and replace all the programs and passwords.

If you want to cycle get a hat.

 I went with my daughter to buy he son a cycle helmet. These didn't exist as far as I know when I was young.

When we were ten years old, some friends and I cycled about forty miles to the nearest city and camped there overnight before cycling back the following day. Yes there were fewer cars on the roads but none of us wore helmets.

More innocent times.

Swimming

 Does anyone swim regularly? Obviously it helps if you live close to a swimming pool but it is great exercise which works all the muscles with no impact.And it is a true year round activity.

All change or maybe not

 Well a bit of rain is helpful for the garden but it does need a lot more.

I am bored of reading about climate change. Yee gods, it is always changing. People like to quote experts - are these the same experts who forecast a mini ice age. Does anyone else totally ignore these cabals of experts, those who forecast anything from climate emergency, no there isn't and even if there was there is nothing mankind can do about it; to Covid and the huge numbers that will die from it, that hasn't happened either; to the predictions in the early 1970's that oil would run out by the year 2000, yet here we are twenty years on with more cars on the roads than ever.

Get a grip, climate change/emergency is a nudge technique by those with private jets who are laughing at the gullible minions.