The NHS, Tescos and Bank charges!

 I can not and will not complain about the NHS! I got to see my GP today, got the treatment I required and paid the entire sum of £7.40 for a month's supply of medication! It did result in me losing a day of work as I had to wait to get an appointment, but, the clinic are fantastic, kind, caring and saw me within a reasonable time and no money changed hands, which always pleases me! A massive hooray to everyone in the NHS, they are paid disgustingly low wages, they work unreasonably long hours and their dedication, which always amazes me, is often uncelebrated. (My sister is a nurse on the cardiothoracic unit in Treliske! A precise specialist working with people with lung cancer - all hail the nurses!!!!)

I will however complain voraciously about the see you next Tuesdays who run banks! At least Dick Turpin wore a mask! These people are bare faced robbers! When I paid off my overdraft I was waiting for a clear financial moment to change to a fee free account. They charge £17 just to use the bank account and then £5 on top to use the over draft facility, when not one penny in their hands is earnt by them! £264 a year to use an account, and not to gain from any of the 'products' that came with the account was not a good deal to me. On top, my taxes, your taxes and every other suckers taxes bailed out gross negligence and incompetence whilst they sipped champagne in Monte Carlo. We paid for the fat b******s to Lord it up! Today, when I had some spare time in between waiting for the local clinic to tell me they had an appointment to see me, I got on top of some financial matters that I needed to change for quite a while. I changed my bank account to a fee free bank account. I will now be £264 a year better off. That's a month's groceries, or the car insurance or one of the other bills that I've struggled with. Best of all, is knowing that I'm not giving those oxygen robbers any of my money! **** them! Yesterday Lloyds Platinum, today Lloyds Classic - all the services that I use and no bank charges. If we all did this, they wouldn't make the iniquitous profits that they do!

Finally, it doesn't seem much, but I sorted out my Tesco points and exchanged them for 'rewards'. I use Tesco filling stations as they have the cheapest diesel I can buy and I then save the points and treble them into rewards vouchers. Today, I cashed in £10 of 'money' to spend in Tesco to £30 of money to spend in Cafe Rouge! I'll give them to Dearly Beloved and he can whisk me off on a date some time in the future! So all in all, a funny old day of waiting around for an emergency Dr's appt (no, don't worry, Brits will know I am not dying but it's the jargon used for an appointment 'on the day' without prior notice!) saving £264 over the next year and getting a free lunch from my Tesco reward vouchers. A frugal day? I should say so!