Friday 12 June.
Moira made me my cup of tea in bed then prepared the breakfast. I got up and showered making sure the Press Stick was firmly in my ear to keep it dry. After breakfast I spent the rest of the morning reading and managing to complete the crosswords in the 'Telegraph'. Moira was going into the bank to get the new Gold bank card that we will be able to use overseas. I filled in the form for Moira to tale with her to Sanlam to withdraw the money from the Unit Trusts. There was a few gaps left in the form, like account number which I didn't have, I was hoping Moira could get it from them. She was lucky with that and they completed the form and the money should be paid into the bank next week. She wasn't so fortunate at the bank and they would only issue the bank card to me.
The next thing that had to be arranged was to cash in the Government Retail Bonds we have. Moira couldn't find any way to do it online so she went to the post office but they didn't have a form there and said to phone. She phoned and they sent an Early Withdrawal Form by email, now we had to get it printed out. We decided to go into Port Shepstone after lunch and print out the form at the internet cafe in the Mall and at the same time pick up the Gold card at the bank. First at the internet cafe we ran into problems with Yahoo, it wouldn't let us into our email as it didn't recognise the place where we were connecting from. We left and went to the bank and while there Moira said we could go into the Government web site and print the form from there. But first the Gold card and that took about a quarter of an hour, she had to put lots of information into the computer, examine my ID book, take my fingerprints then get me to enter a pin number. Eventually we were headed back to the internet cafe and were successful in printing off the form this time.
When we got back to the house Moira filled out the form for the redemption of the bonds and I photographed it onto my iPad. She then emailed it to the Government department. Not long afterwards she got confirmation that they had received it. That was all our finances arranged and once all the money is in the bank we can see about transferring it to Scotland.
I checked out the sport on the TV and there was the second ODI cricket match between England and NZ from the Oval. NZ were halfway through their innings and doing well. They finished with 398. During the break we had our dinner, I finished off what I had left last night and an apple, my appetite hasn't been very good since the op. There was the quiz show the 'Chase' on BBC Entertainment. When it finished I turned back to the cricket and England were just beginning their innings. Cricket has certainly changed since we last watched a game, there is no messing about getting settled they go after the runs right away. It was a tall order to get 399 to win but they were having a good go when it rained and the umpires took them off. England were 345/7 at the time about 6 overs to go and had a food chance of getting there. They were about 10 runs behind the Duckworth Lewis target for a rain abandoned game. It was nearly 10 pm by this time and it didn't look like the rain would stop soon so I gave up and went to bed.
I wasn't feeling particularly tired even with little sleep last night but I managed to get to sleep after about half an hour. I had to get up a few times to the loo but got back over to sleep again quite quickly. My ear wasn't as annoying as last night.
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