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[NickFitz]

^^^ What news of the DPD parcel? We should be told!

Ah, yes! That conveniently arrived around twenty past five yesterday evening

He left it down in the entrance lobby when I buzzed him in so I had to go downstairs to get it, but I don't blame him - he'd been buzzing around in that van dropping off parcels for hours by that time

[NickFitz]

One strange feature of my life at the moment is that various accounts of our parents are being settled by financial institutions and when they are, my brother will send me my share without warning. So now and again, like this afternoon, I'll get a notification out of the blue that several thousand pounds have just landed in my bank account

I think we're nearly there now though. Got to save some for interring the ashes next spring

[DoctorStrangelove]

^^^ The biggest pain in the arse was my dad's Halifax account. The number of times I tried to sort that out. .

Had to go there with my sister in the end and find someone who knew WTF they were doing, unlike the first oik.

The funniest bit was the interment of the ashes: they'd dug the hole in the wrong grave at the other end of the row.

The undertaker was, er, mortified. . My dad would have loved it.

[NickFitz]

Tea has been homemade pork chow mein. Very nice, I thought. I'm not saying anybody else would like it, or even regard it as edible, but I enjoyed it

This was accompanied by a new Police Interceptors which was from Nottinghamshire again despite the earlier episodes in the series except the one before this being from Northamptonshire and Notts being from the previous series

[NickFitz]

^^^ The biggest pain in the arse was my dad's Halifax account. The number of times I tried to sort that out. .

I think the main thing we have outstanding is our Mum's ISA at Santander. For some reason, they were able to deal with another account she had there no problem, but the ISA process couldn't cope with it not having been dealt with before Dad died, and they've got in such a tangle that they're having to start the whole process again

Today's payout came from Dad's Premium Bonds. We'd left them in until the final draw for which they were eligible, which was this month's. Looks like we didn't get the hoped-for million, but he won a few hundred over the course of the year

The funniest bit was the interment of the ashes: they'd dug the hole in the wrong grave at the other end of the row.

The undertaker was, er, mortified. . My dad would have loved it.

That's the kind of thing our family would appreciate too