Be Excellent To Each Other

I work in Liverpool (albeit it not in the city centre) but last time I saw there markets there it was like four huts. I'm happy to be going to the Chester one tomorrow during the day. Hopefully not too busy.

Hmph!

So earlier this month my bank put a stop on some random unauthorised payment and cancelled my debit card. All good. But three payments to an energy company went through that were also nothing to do with me. 30+ mins with a nice but cotton-mouthed lady on the phone to get it sorted. All done.

But I started thinking about how someone could have got my card details. I rarely use my actual card. I use Google Wallet more often and PayPal for stuff online. But if I line up the dates and when I most likely used my card it was to buy things at the Chester Xmas market. I only used it twice but I think it must have been one of the stallholders. Bah!

Cheeky buggers. Did you hand it over at any point?

I don't think it ever left my hand. So it might have just been their scanner or they caught the underside on camera or something.

I mean it might be some sort of clever Hollywood hack or something else. But the timing is suspicious. As were the disgusting fake Walnut Whip style chocolate marshmallow things I bought.

The first year in ages I decide not to play Whamaggedon, it turns out I would have got my highest score ever (20). 'Twas ever thus.

I forgot to mention that before Christmas, Manchester City Council put out a warning for drivers not to drive into the city centre. New bike lanes, one of which causes traffic flows to seize up on Deansgate, one of the main routes in and out, along with other road works and various events in city centre venues will cause grid lock for hours. Days before they'd issued the warning, drivers were already complaining that they'd got stuck in jams for hours going into the city centre and even if they wanted to abandon their journeys, were stuck for hours trying to get out again.

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