You Gotta Love the Bank

Copy & pasted is the email below we received from the bank:

Thanks



Grateful if you would give me the EC equivalent for 150 000 dirhams



I am sorry but this currency is new to me



I would appreciate your assistance in this matter



Thanks again

Lost in transit....

Our bank transfer from the UK to here to pay for our container has got lost in transit...........what on earth does that mean?........a trace (whatever that is exactly) has been put on it and an answer may appear between 2 days and 3 weeks. Alternatively the money broker/exchanger/dealer has just stolen our money. The shipper, Ziegler, wants their money before Friday. A visit tomorrow first thing is called for to our friendly bank manager. Do you think we'll get a 13,000 Euro overdraft facility with no questions asked when we are leaving in 3 weeks..............it was all going too well wasn't it............I don't want to discuss high stress levels because in the big scheme of things there are plenty worse off than me I know and I have to keep telling myself this...there again I really would like my container to actually leave this country.....anyway our friend George has just arrived with the rest of our state of the art (even prefab is state of the art you know) pool stuff and a nice bottle of champagne. All I need is a straw now and I'm not sharing. Maybe tomorrow this will all be a dream.............

ps The packer packed all my shoes so I have one pair of flips for the next 6 weeks - am thinking along the 'loads worse off than me' principle again so no problem hey.

Waiting for news from the bank

We were hoping to fund our build project without the need for a loan. However, the sale of our townhouse in Turks & Caicos fell through. We spent 3 months reading emails from our buyer of how close he was to signing the papers and transferring the deposit. Of course, when d-day finally arrived - about the third one - he pulled out. We now hear he has bought the empty plot of land next to us and is going to build a replica of ours. That's the way it goes in property purchasing - you always think you can buy land and build cheaper - which of course you can if you can stand the hassle of doing it yourself. Anyway, we are now the proud owners of a lovely house in Dominica but to complete our complex (I've always wanted to be on the Grand Designs show) we now have to complete the railings, landscaping, The Shack (ask my husband) and the swimming pool. The loan paperwork has all been sent to the National Bank of Dominca and we wait in anticipation now for their answer.