Last couple of days

Went to the 10.30 at Emmanuel yesterday, Sunday.  Things are getting back to normal after the long, long summer break.   I'll soon be back to making cakes for Wednesday's meal at the end of the month.

Afterwards Pattisue and I went to lunch at the China Buffet, instead of an ice cream, to further discuss the movie, The Butler.  I think it will be on for a few more weeks, then hopefully come to the downtown cinema.

In the evening I went to Walmart for some goats milk.  I have been urged to drink water to help my headaches - although they are alright at the moment - so I scoured the shelves, looking for something that remotely resembled Highland Spring, or Buxton, but there's nothing, the bottled water here just comes from taps, the local reservoirs, and it is pretty unpalatable.  I've got a filter in the door of my fridge, but it doesn't make it taste any better.   And water melon isn't good enough.

Today, Monday, I was just running round town doing errands, then I went to Emmanuel for an hour at noon to hand out packed lunches to the homeless.  I was rushed off my feet for the first fifteen minutes while I handed out 45 lunches.   Then it slowed down, and I handed out 5 in the last twenty minutes.  There were another 50 already packed but they were for tomorrow.  We just hand out 50 a day, then put an "all gone" notice up.

I spent some  of the afternoon talking to my new best friends at Visa Fraud.  You may remember a bandit hacked into my Visa card a few weeks ago, and was paying parking fines in NY City, and buying meals in California, with it.    Anyway, I recently paid my auto insurance with my Lloyds TSB Visa debit card - and although it is a well known insurance company over here Lloyds hadn't heard of it, so notified the Fraud Dept.  They let the payment go through but the next time I used the card it was declined, and when I rang to ask why I was put through to the Fraud Dept., and they questioned the insurance payment.    As the card has a 'damaged status' they are sending me a new one, but allowing me to use the existing one for 30 days while I'm waiting for the new one to arrive.
  I am very grateful for their diligence, but amazed that they have the resources for it.