Starting on a Wednesday!

[caddyman]

Back in the office then, after a four-day bank holiday weekend. We civil servants get the extra day for the Queen’s birthday, don’tcha know. It’s instead of a living salary unless you are one of the few at the top end who get paid as much as two Prime Ministers (though why anyone would want to be paid in Prime Ministers is anyone’s guess).

It is now less than a fortnight until the move and we are beginning to get into squeaky bum territory as we face the task of packing and remembering precisely who we need to tell and what needs cancelling/transferring and all. We have decided that the best way of getting into the task is to go and see 39 Steps at the Criterion tonight with belle_fille1982 and mrtonylee. This will be far more fun than turning then flat into a packaging wasteland. That task will commence on Saturday, I reckon and then move apace until we find we have run out of time!

I am grateful to Fabio Capello for picking an England World Cup squad that has little chance of progressing much past the group stages (if that, given their recent performances). This means that I shan’t have to fret at missing a number of World Cup matches and can listen sanguinely to radio commentaries or watch Brazil or someone else between times.

I rather cunningly left a whole swathe of cash in my other trolleys this morning, so I have had to use the last fiver in my wallet to buy my morning latté. I foresee a raid on the ATM in my near future.

Comments

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

I thoroughly recommend mail forwarding - saves a lot of headaches.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

If I was paid in Prime Ministers I'd have Prime Minister Cameron doing my housework and Deputy Prime Minister Clegg doing the gardening. I'd lie back and sip cooling drinks.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're doing that. I think we decided on 12 months just to be sure!

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

There will _always_ be things you've forgotten and/or people/organisations who ignore your change of address notification. (I think the prize at the moment is the Bradford and Bingley, or whatever they're called this week, who are still writing to my dad at this address; he only moved a bit over seven years ago)

[velvet-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Given that we moved twice not too long ago here's a general list of who we had to tell. (They may/not be relevant or you've remembered already, but one usually slips through the net and I'm avoiding doing anything taxing at the moment.)

Utilities - gas, leccy, water, council tax, telephone, broadband
Bank(s)
Savings Account(s)
Credit Card(s) - do asap if make a lot of online purchases where the postal address has to match
Insurance
Pension provider(s)
Tax Office
DVLA - licence and vehicle reg (not sure if that's relevant to you two)
Employer
Memberships of stuff - National Trust, English Heritage, Dr Who fan-bois, etc. ;o)
Magazine subscriptions
National Blood Service if you're a donor
Amazon/Play/on-line shopping emporiums where your address details are stored
Other shopping emporiums that provide pretty, tempting catalogues you'd like to keep receiving, otherwise it's an ace way to get off the mailing list!
PayPal - definitely one to remember as I've had a parcel go to an old address even though the eBay address was correct
eBay
Healthcare - doctor (presumably need to change)/private healthcare provider/opticians

Word, a template letter and mail merge is the way forward. ;o)

Have fun with the 39 Steps.

[mathcathy]

They tend to stop immediately after you return something to them wit "Not at this address" on the envelope. I resort to that after a while of forwarding other people's mail for them, or whenever I start receiving junk mail that I don't want.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Of course in this case it is more likely that B&E _want_ their mail... (and I wouldn't do that to my dad -- I just ring up and yell at him before forwarding it)

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

Did you know that civil servants over here get paid considerably more than the private sector equivalents? There are 8000 people employed by the New York City transport bureaucracy that earn over $100k. Makes the slight chance of an OBE at the end of a long career look a tad paltry by comparison, dunnit?