Date: 23 April 2010 14:15:52
As I commented below after all your very kind, and also humorous comments, the money was returned to me early this afternoon: significantly shorter than the 3 weeks I had expected. Thank you to St George [the bank, but it is his feast day so perhaps some strange cosmic connection there...] and particular Dimmy of the Liverpool Westfield's branch who helped and got it all sorted so quickly, and who called me back to tell me as soon as she heard it was done. I will be sending a letter to her manager, whom I also met, expressing my thanks for her superb service; and also one to the Fraud Detection Centre, to say thank you also It was they who called me this morning to ask about these unusual transactions, just as I was about to call St George to ask why I could not withdraw any money from my account.
Thank you seems to be a word I've used here a lot lately [and I just edited my "Busy-ness Post Response" blog to add some thanks to rain who commented on the post after I wrote that entry], and looking back since I started this blog way back in July 2004 [1,796 posts ago...1,797 including this: wow -- you're a patient and long-suffering lot...] "Thank you" has never been far from my fingers as I typed away. Through my highs, lows, and all in between, both the community here at the Wibsite [for which thanks beyond expression to Chris, Dave and all involved in keeping it going and making it such a great place] and the people I've been blessed to know on other blogs and sites on the Internet have been a constant source of love, hope, encouragement, frequent good humour, and often a challenge to myself to change how I see things. And the fact I was allowed into all of your lives was a great blessing, and I can but pray I have returned in some measure, however small, all you have brought to my life.
I won't say au revoir for my French is appalling; I'll stammer out an auf Wiedersehen, for I am not sure what the future holds. I think it a good time now to take a break from blogging; not sure when [if?] I will return or what direction any future blog may take -- this is supposedly called Exploring Orthodoxy but Exploring the depths, struggles and pains of my mind, while not exactly rolling off the tongue, may've been a better title. Anyway: with my thanks again, and the parting comment that while my words here may stop I hope and pray to be able to continue to share in yours.
Auf Wiedersehen; it has been wondrous.
[you knew I had to throw that in :D]