Another Update

Day 6

Since yesterday was a very quiet, stay at home day, I ventured out to Croydon with Carol. We had a bit of a look around the Whitgift Centre, where I went to the bank to find out why we had not got our updated cash cards... The bank officer was very helpful and ordered cards to be picked up from the branch in 5 - 7 working days!! (Just as well we had some cash already!) Then she said we might need to get new pin numbers and that would take a further 5 - 7 days as you couldn't do it at the bank (perhaps the NZ banking system could show them a thing or two about that!!). Hopefully we won't need to use the cards before the end of the month!!

The weather has been a bit on the cool side - starts off sunny out, but cool, then the clouds arrive and it stays cool. Fortunately, it hasn't rained since Sunday, so don't need a coat.

Day 7

Today was the day when I got to meet Burnice - a friend I had met some time ago on an on-line card making forum. Roger was not interested in spending the day talking about cards and shopping, so he stayed in Croydon while I took the train to Lingfield, where Burn met me and we headed for the Craft Barn, an incredible craft shop dedicated to stamping and the like. I have never seen so much in one place that I could have bought! (Photo - Burn outside the Craft Barn clutching her shopping bag!)

After an hour and a half shopping, we headed back to her house at Woodingdean, near Brighton where we spent the rest of the time talking and playing with stamping stuff. Reluctantly, I had to leave her and get the train back to East Croydon later in the afternoon.

Meanwhile, Roger had spent some time going into Croydon and having a bit of a look around the shops. He was able to find out about rental cars for our trip to Wantage next weekend.