Another Land Based Day......mmmm.


A slight change in mood.

When I realised that I had handed Ubique over for that draft - I honestly thought it was cash, but wasn't - my mood was just about as crooked as that door.

A search on Google asking, can you stop a bankers draft?  and guess what?.... it turns out that you can, did nothing to help.
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A very stressful, sweating, hair greying and floor pacing week has gone by.... but yesssss it has just cleared.

Thank the air that we breathe for that!!  
Now we can get on.

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The first thing we are doing is training ourselves to be expert car dealers.

This is to avoid some sheepskin coated Arthur Daley type extracting too many of our English pounds for a pile of rust with a steering wheel.

I wonder if they would take a draft?

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Until next time...................

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Boatless For Nearly A Week Now!


Just what is the point of a bankers Draft???

There she is, considerably higher in the water with all our worldly goods - and one very cross cat - removed and lurking in that van.

A quick trip to the bank to pay in the tiny piece of paper that we had exchanged our beloved boat for and we were off.
This tiny piece of paper was a bankers draft which - everyone tells you - is as good as having the cash in your hand.

Oh no it isn't!!

Asking the set of teeth sitting behind the glass will the draft clear and be in our account today or tomorrow?
Thud....... that was the sound of my jaw dropping as she told us it will take the normal six days to clear.
But.... I thought this was as good as cash?  I stammered.
It is, says the teeth.
Cash clears more or less straight away, says I.
It does, replies the teeth, but this is a cheque.
No....this is a Bankers Draft that is as good as cash.
No....it is as good as cash but it is still a cheque and needs the normal time to clear.

Feeling a head banging session with a wall coming on, I dragged my jaw outside and went back to the bricks.

It still hasn't cleared as I type this.




Until next time......................





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