Talking of fair’s…today was going to be a lovely family day out in the Cotswold’s taking in the Vintage and Handmade Fair. But..
First all the three cash till’s in our local town wouldn’t work….went down the road to the next, same thing…”well lets get going anyway” we said and drove for one and a half hours to our first destination Chipping Sodbury. Jumped out in the wind and rain and tried another two cash till’s. Hum…same thing. After a little headscratching the cash till queue began to share and we discovered that all the Halifax/Intelligent Finance customers couldn’t get cash out. Once we got through on the phone it appeared that their whole system had hit ‘technical’ trouble – no cash, no pin use, nadda!
So to cut a long story short I had to look round all this with only the money we could cobble together between us, less petrol money and lunch. Torture…all this loveliness and no money to spend! Nicky from The Vintage Magpie saved the day by letting us pay by post and there was enough for tea and cakes, so all was not lost.
