Serendipity Again

 

Eunice came and went and left very little mark on Trelawnyd yesterday.
I wasn’t woken by the wind but by worrying that overnight 8 thousand pounds had been deposited into my current account without my knowledge and not long after I had tried to sleep for an hour or so after getting home, I got up and rang the nhs pensions department in order to clarify why they had sent me the money .
The young man who eventually answered my call, laughed in genuine good humour.
My former nhs employer had processed my pension incorrectly and I was being recompensed for the mistake
Again when it has come to money,
Serendipity has chosen some brilliant timing in my life of late and she’s done her stuff just when I needed her too.
This is the third time in so many years that good fortune has smiled on me when I’ve needed money the most. 
Not having to scrimp and save for things like I’ve had to do with the chimney repairs is wonderfully satisfying. 
I’ve paid off my overdraft, my credit card bill and have deposited the rest into my savings account while I do some thinking…..
How lucky am I ?

Hey ho
Last night the goats walked back through the car park again but this time they were returning to the Orme 
The hysteria of Eunice is finally over



107 comments:

  1. That's FANTASTIC!! A buffer you can put to good use. I'm delighted for you John.

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    1. Thank you, it’s nice to underline the good

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  2. Barbara Anne4:20 am

    How lucky, indeed, with Eunice mostly missing your area and this timely windfall that will aid in the chimney work and - perhaps - the bathroom remodel, too. Joy!
    Sweet dreams!!!

    Hugs!

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    1. I’ve liked sharing a bit of good fortune

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  3. Brilliant, John, I'm so pleased for you x

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  4. Wonderful. My late mother experienced something similar.... but it had been a big mistake. She was quite downhearted for ten minutes.

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  5. Your good karma cycling back to you ☺️

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  6. Good news on a really shitty day (in many ways) - I'm happy for you :) :)

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  7. Yorkshire Liz5:47 am

    Just goes to prove good things do happen to good people. I can see your halo shining from here! Very heartwarming. Now breathe.......

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  8. You deserve it. Enjoy your well-deserved good fortune.

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  9. Well deserved serendipity or Karma ~ what goes around comes around. You really deserve this good fortune John, enjoy ~ Ro xx

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  10. Yay! What a relief. It's like you drew the "bank error in your favor" card in the game Monopoly! Glad the storm didn't inflict too much damage in your area.

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    1. Computer errors seem to abound, look at that dreadful debacle in the post office where hundreds of postal workers were accused wrongly of fraud

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  11. Lucky day! Excellent news.

    We were lucky too with little storm damage and, like your clever goats, are moving back to normal now.

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  12. Anonymous7:48 am

    That is quite a windfall. I was a bit worried about you and the storm.

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  13. It's a shame you lost sleep worrying about it, but how lovely for you that it's all yours. Glad you didn't get any storm damage to eat up that lucky windfall. xx

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  14. What great news. I am so happy for you.

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  15. thats great! i'm so pleased for you xx

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  16. Relief on both counts!!

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  17. Nice windfall, pleased for you.

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    1. Thank you heather, Gz, Julie, carol,

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  18. veg artist8:45 am

    Brill. Worrying that they got it wrong in the first place though. How many others?

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  19. Well, holy crap! What an error in your favor. Enjoy the reduced financial pressure — and the windfall! An appalling error in the first place, however. (Don’t forget the taxes.)

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    1. Yes, I will be taxed on it, something I wouldn’t have been originally

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  20. I'm so pleased for you John-an answer to a maidens prayer xx

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  21. Bloody marvellous old chap! I wish that would happen to me. I find myself in a state of penury. Any chance of a couple of hundred quid so that I can pay our heating bill?

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    1. and John my wig has blown far away in the wind x

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  22. Wow! That is so wonderful (but shouldn't you have received some sort of communication about it?).

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    1. Anonymous2:01 pm

      I wondered that about the lack of communication too.

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    2. See below , I think the first explanation letter didn’t arrive , the second one I received a couple of days ago was confusing

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  23. it's like hitting the lottery! good for you!

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  24. That is brilliant news John and perfect timing!

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  25. Did you hear about the British bank which gave a lot of people millions of pounds by mistake recently? That is so cruel.

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    1. I did make a point of asking him to check if everything was correct

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    2. They could still get you for theft. Remember all those single mothers who were overpaid for child allowance? They were threatened with criminal proceedings if they did not pay it back. I don't think you have anything to worry about though.

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    3. I went a tiny bit cold at your comment, I still can’t quite believe it…I asked how the “ mistake” was found , but he couldn’t answer me

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  26. May the gods keep shining on you, John. There is a saying in the motherland which I sincerely hope will not apply to you. And why I won't relate it either. There is such a thing as too much information. I sometimes think I am so thick skinned because certain realities of life (folklore) were fed to me with my mother's milk.

    As some of your other readers have pointed out, it's odd you didn't get some written advance "warning". By way of example, for some reason I had overpaid council tax by a "staggering" £22.00 (ain't I lucky). So they sent me a form to fill in as into which account the money should back into. I won't mention that they don't give me the option for them to just take it off next tax year's council tax bill. Why keep things simple when complicating them will do?

    Enjoy your windfall. (Joke Alert) Don't spend it all on "plastering" your walls with more paintings and cluttering the place with trinkets.

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    1. Anonymous2:04 pm

      Trinkets and paintings - no doubt there'll be lots!

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    2. Lol and if I want to buy a painting , that’s my business and not yours..if I irritate you don’t read of my good fortune , frivolity and other negative behaviours lol

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    3. Ursula , I received a somewhat confusing letter on the 15 th from the pension office stating they had already written to me regarding a pension update.
      I don’t recall receiving that letter

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  27. Perhaps I'm a simpleton, but I believe that those who believe in serendipity get to experience it! I s'pose you can call it Karma or the law of attraction - what we think about, we bring about. You, dear John, must have infinite good Karma!

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  28. Wow! How wonderful for you. Take a bit and buy a lottery ticket...maybe the good luck will carry over.

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    1. It’s nice feeling I have a safety blanket of sorts

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  29. If good news comes in threes, you survived the storm, received a unexpected money, what next? Maybe you should try a date.

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  30. No wind but a nice windfall!

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  31. So glad you and the rest of Trelawnyd survived Eunice. We once had a big sum deposited in our account and spent quite a bit of time convincing the bank it wasn't ours. I'm glad you were able to confirm that your bonus is yours.

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    1. Yes although I should have asked in writing

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  32. Good for you! Money worries are the worst.

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  33. Timing is everything! You have a ice safety net.

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  34. Anonymous2:28 pm

    Good for you having a windfall.
    But scrimp and save? That's a joke, you fill your house with ornaments, paintings, new furniture, have lunches out, nights away with meals out, visits to the cinema and theatre.
    Scrimping and saving is when your (reduced) state pension doesn't cover the basic outgoings, when the thought of the increase in energy bills means using the heating even less than you do now, when going to bed at 6 pm is the only option to get warm, when using the oven to cook is a "special" occasion, when the hole in your shoe means putting a plastic bag over your foot before you put the shoe on, when you deliberate whether it would be more economical to light one candle rather than having one light bulb lit, when you turn down an invitation to have a coffee at a café with a friend because you know you haven't got enough to buy a cup and you can't let the friend buy it because you know you won't be able to buy it the next time. Because you couldn't stand the shame of saying you hadn't got the money. Scrimping and saving is when you completely miss meals because you know if you had that last slice of bread with soup at lunchtime then come the later mealtime you'll wish you'd saved it to eat then. These are a few of the things from my past week. I'm now at the local library keeping warm and using a free hour on their computers, they close at 4.30 so I'll make my way home with my leaky shoe to my cold house. Bedtime not far away but with an empty stomach as I had the soup and bread at lunchtime.

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    1. I wonder if you may contact a local food bank who are there to help people who are struggling to make ends meet at the moment x

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    2. Trying to be helpful3:05 pm

      Good afternoon, have you checked to see if you are entitled to any welfare benefits that may help with your situation? xx

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    3. You make a good point and a valid one
      But we, I suspect, have had the discussion before and I really have no intention of doing so again
      Suffice to say I don’t bang on about the clothes I don’t buy, the new car I don’t drive, the big tv I don’t watch, the big house I don’t live in, all these are not important to me
      If I say I scrimp and save I do so,
      I may not do it in your Dickensian type way , but I am careful with my money and am grateful for what I do have
      I concede my life may be brighter than yours but I do work full time for my income

      I don’t apologise for that .

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    4. And yet here you are 'Anonymous' able to make snarky comments on the internet, through your broadband on your computer / smart phone?

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  35. Wow. You won the lottery without even buying a ticket! How excellent!

    Very happy for you.

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  36. PS: I find that people who paint the most dramatic pictures of their dire impoverished state: ie going to bed with an empty stomach, are almost always given to over-dramatics. I have an acquaintance who likes to paint a very grim picture of her financial ruin, and how she worked 120 hours a week. It's simply untrue, exaggerated to garner sympathy. Best to not even dignify with a response.

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    1. There is obvious unhappiness in her comments whatever the reason Debby

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    2. Debby, I will "dignify" your comment with a response.

      Just because you feel uncomfortable with the picture Anon paints doesn't mean it's not true. There are people who do have to choose between being warm or fed. Or going without either. There is unimaginable poverty (considering we live in a rich country) that is well hidden from view. The truly poor are invisible because, as Anon points out, they make themselves so. The shame of poverty!

      A friend of mine, well heeled to boot, now retired, volunteers at a foodbank. He doesn't say much about it; when he does it makes for heartbreaking listening. I have no idea how he copes with other people's misery, actually coming face to face with it. And I am not only talking about the "habitually" poor but people like you, me, John, anyone whose luck may run out, out of the blue, and maybe at the mercy of the next coin coming their way.

      Having said that, here is my hot tip of the day: Commit a crime. Nothing too drastic. Let yourself be caught. Have a roof over your head and, probably, shit food but food nevertheless at Her Majesty's pleasure. Tax money well spent, don't you think? In case you don't get it do note a hint of sarcasm (mine) in my last sentence.

      May the sun shine on you too, Debby; some experiences in life we can do without, but please don't kick those who are down already,

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    3. I don’t think that was Debby’s remit at all Ursula
      She just questioned anon’s validity

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    4. No need to dignify your response, Ursula. In your rush to be critical, you missed the point completely. Ps I operate an emergency food bank.

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    5. Ps I do not doubt Anon's validity. I doubt his veracity. s/he is resorting to very exaggerated hyperbole to make a point.

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    6. My mistake Debby lol

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    7. Debby, I have learnt not to rush. Yes, I am critical because I believe sometimes views, including and particularly our own, do need to be challenged.

      I "missed the point completely"? What point? Whether Anon's particular story is exaggerated or not, he/she DOES have a POINT. Hyperbole doesn't come into it.

      In the end it all erupted over semantics. John mentioned "scrimp and save" and Anon tried to put him right on what constitutes "scrimp and save". Anyway, it's all relative. I am sure that someone who doesn't have the means to buy all colours of a particular Louboutin (shoes) they have fallen in love with does feel hard done by too.

      Anyway, let's not take away from John's joy over his windfall.

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    8. Sorry to bicker on your blog john. I usually try to overlook. My apologies. I will once again revert to shaking my head in disbelief. Ps...if you are managing a trip into London at some point in the next month, let me know.

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    9. Not to bang on about the “scrimp and save “ debacle
      My scrimp and save is just as valid an anons Ursula , they are obviously different which I acknowledged
      Debby, I will be down twice in the next five weeks , a fact that sort of supports anon’s comment lol

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    10. I think there’s been too much over judging here
      Coupled with too much micro managing of information

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    11. Anonymous1:30 pm

      Micro managing? It's a blog John not a big puffed up business endeavour!

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    12. The person Jill ( and anon( s ) who delights in putting everyone’s comments under a microscope thus missing their true meaning makes blogging rather exasperating to say the least
      That’s what I mean my micro managing
      It makes perfect sense
      Except to a pedant

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    13. Strangely the last sentence of 'jay's' comment is worded similarly as another name commenting here previously-To Me-"reply not needed"-"won't return"- But it Seems they do John x

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    14. Game playing flis game playing
      I realised the same
      What a waste of time
      Further comments willbe deleted
      Hey ho

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  37. I have only just seen the windswept gentleman and chicken on your Trelawnyd Village sign-it's very unusual - I have a windswept chimney sweep and my top dog lookalikie weather vein x

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  38. Congrats! You have one helluva financial guardian angel!

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  39. Good for you dear one. It has been like them saving it for you all this time - your money troubles are over.

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  40. My husband died in 2018, two days before his mother (who was a couple months shy of her 100th birthday.) Because he "pre-deceased" her, I didn't expect anything from her will since there was a provision in it that said if that should happen, the money would be divided between his two surviving brothers.

    One day I got a letter from his youngest brother, executor of the mother's will, which said he'd tried his best to rectify that provision but legally he couldn't, so he sent me a check for the amount he'd received. I sat in the post office's parking lot and cried at his kind gesture. A week or so later, another check came from the older brother. Financially, I was in good shape but that extra money gave me the cushion I needed to be able to help my grandson, who's autistic, realize his dream of attending a school for young adults on the autism spectrum. I'll always be grateful for the generosity of my brothers-in-law.

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    1. That’s such a nice story, where following the money was the key, it founded its best course

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  41. That's wonderful John. I'm happy for you! This is an excellent example of what good karma can do for good people.

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    1. That’s kind bonnie , I’ve been blessed with kind today

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  42. Will receiving the pension in one lump sum affect your tax situation? Just a thought, maybe need to set some aside?

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  43. A lovely windfall! Do get the details in writing though.

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  44. Delightful news! Unexpected money is the best sort of money to receive. Enjoy every cent of it.

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  45. How fabulous was that. Good Karma coming back at you. Well done you.

    Jo in Auckland

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  46. Excellent. You know I'm happy for you to get to the real end of the line to post my comment.

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  47. You are VERY lucky!

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    1. Yes….the downside could be seen that my tax bill till be larger than it would have been if I had been given it originally

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  48. So happy for you,you deserve it you gonna treat them doggies ( and Albert ).xx

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  49. Aren't surprises wonderful...

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  50. Ursula was right. Why you didn't support her is a mystery to me.

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  51. Very pleased for you. Jxx

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