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Happy Birthday!!
john | 09.03.18 - 6:36 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday!
My birth record shows an incorrect time. I was born just after noon, which should have meant my mum was required to spend an extra day in holiday - but the Dr put my birth back by a few minutes so my mum had the option of being discharged a day earlier.
Friar Sven | 09.03.18 - 6:57 a.m. | #
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Many happy returns!
Tunnel Bore | 09.03.18 - 7:01 a.m. | #
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happy birthday dg
amber | 09.03.18 - 7:01 a.m. | #
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Happy birthday! Enjoy your trip to Plumstead.
martin | 09.03.18 - 7:02 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday!
I was born at 6:20am and do the same thing, and by an amazing coincidence it is also my wife's birthday today as well.
Ken | 09.03.18 - 7:04 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday dg, hope you have a wonderful time celebrating your special day.
Lynn | 09.03.18 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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Happy birthday!
Rachel | 09.03.18 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday
Sara | 09.03.18 - 7:19 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG. I hope you have a great day.
Terry | 09.03.18 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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Many Happy Returns of the Day,DG! ๐๐๐๐
Enjoy yourself !
Jo W | 09.03.18 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday!
Peter of London | 09.03.18 - 7:39 a.m. | #
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Merry birthday, DG!
Mike Newman | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 7:42 a.m. | #
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Happy birthday from a regular reader in Paris.
| 09.03.18 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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A very happy birthday to you DG
DannyR | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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Many Happy Returns DG, and here's to many more years of your most excellent Blog
IanD | 09.03.18 - 7:57 a.m. | #
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Many happy returns!
Rob | 09.03.18 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday greetings from both Bus Stop M and myself.
fishislandskin | 09.03.18 - 8:05 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday!
kittens | 09.03.18 - 8:11 a.m. | #
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Happy birthday!
Andrew | 09.03.18 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG and thanks for your great unmissable blog!
Dave B | 09.03.18 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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I can loan you some cash - I can be at bus stop M 'sometime this afternoon'
Have a good day DG, though the starts not too great.
Gazza | 09.03.18 - 8:26 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG! A bus trip to celebrate I hope.
Kevin | 09.03.18 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday!
Some Guy | 09.03.18 - 8:28 a.m. | #
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Good Morning DG and I hope you have many happy returns of the day so that we will all be entertained, educated and engaged well into the 21st Century.
strawbrick | 09.03.18 - 8:31 a.m. | #
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If you're still writing comments that say 'Happy Birthday', you haven't been reading...
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 8:32 a.m. | #
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Cash is so 20th Century.
Boris fan | 09.03.18 - 8:41 a.m. | #
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On the one hand...Happy Birthday on the other hope you get it sorted
Simon | 09.03.18 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG! Just see it as a new experience, a gift of sorts...
Rob | 09.03.18 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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Sorry to read of your misfortune. When it happened to me several years ago I was able to go to a branch of my bank, write out a cheque to 'cash' and use my passport as photo ID. I don't suppose it would be so simple now. My thought are with you today.
Dave | 09.03.18 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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@Dave
It is.
Bank Manager | 09.03.18 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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Despite the unfortunate start I hope you enjoy your birthday.
I keep two cards from separate bank accounts in case an ATM gobbles a card.
One of the large UK banks offers a replacement card over the counter at selected branches. I used that service about 3 years ago when I lost my card. I got a new card on a Saturday morning.
Have you found a new music genre with "hold music".
At least the weather is much nicer than last week.
John | 09.03.18 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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Oh dear, the young man who approached you and then walked away may have been checking the scam worked.
Still Anon | 09.03.18 - 9:09 a.m. | #
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Happy birthday!
How could a hacker hack the screen message? That's worrying.
Once my card was stuck in a cash machine inside the bank. There was no error message whatsoever, it just returned to the default screen. I waited a minute or two standing in front of the machine, and it just gave back the card, again without any message. If I had walked away, someone could have taken it.
Greg S | 09.03.18 - 9:22 a.m. | #
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Lebanese loop.
Basically, if a cash machine swallows your card, stay by the cash machine, phone the bank and don't leave the cash machine until you have reported all the details.
Pedantic of Purley | 09.03.18 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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I do hope the clouds over your birthday morning will clear up. All the best then for a new year in your life. May there be many good things to write about.
To pick up one of yesterday's topics, at 53 you've just reached the 'prime age' of sixteen.
Joachim | 09.03.18 - 9:45 a.m. | #
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Happy birthday dg. That year went fast!
I hope you have a great day. ๐ ๐ ๐
Rob Healy | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 9:55 a.m. | #
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What a palaver. Hope the bank card drama gets sorted with minimum fuss.
IslandDweller | 09.03.18 - 10:05 a.m. | #
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Oh no! What a horrible start to your special day!
I hope the rest of it is trouble free and more enjoyable.
Cornish Cockney | 09.03.18 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday ๐
YDU | 09.03.18 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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Many Happy Returns!
Hope your unhappy birthday start doesn't spoil whatever you have planned for the rest of the day.
PofP's tip will hopefully prevent anyone else who reads here ever having the same happen to them - so some good can come out of the situation.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 10:19 a.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG!
Sounds like you were the victim of a Lebanese Loop... :-( Hope the rest of the day goes well though!
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 09.03.18 - 10:22 a.m. | #
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Our daughter, whose birthday is also today, has had troubles too. A trip to Madrid has had to be abandoned. Boyfriend's Mum is now driving them all to visit. Lunch with parents will be a poor substitute, I fear.
RosemaryT | 09.03.18 - 11:00 a.m. | #
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Sorry to hear of your misfortune at the cash machine DG, this must be a real day of mixed emotions for you, on one hand waking up to celebrate both your own birthday and also remembering your Mother on what would have been her Birthday, and then having some low life thief steal from you, I really hope the remainder of your day gets better.
fishislandskin | 09.03.18 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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If it's any consolation, one birthday when I was having a day out to escape a crying baby (my own, and after 3 months I was pretty much at my wits' end so wanted just one day to myself), I was attacked by a busker on the District line who I'd asked to stop playing as compulsory entertainment was the last thing I needed at that point. I ended up with a broken tooth for my pains and he legged it at the next stop.
Hope your day gets better.
Andrew S | 09.03.18 - 11:43 a.m. | #
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Did you inform the police? When the same thing happened to me (on my birthday!) the bank let me use their phone to report the theft to the police. They were very helpful, and found useful CCTV footage from some of the locations my card had been after it left me.
Many happy(er) returns of the day!
timbo again | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 11:50 a.m. | #
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Have a brilliant birthday DG!
Enjoy the seaside and hope you get yer card sorted soon!
Paul | 09.03.18 - 11:54 a.m. | #
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Happy birthday DG
Richard | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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Happy birthday! Will a trip of bus 53 be coming soon?
Patrickov | 09.03.18 - 12:10 p.m. | #
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Congrats!
Sidney | 09.03.18 - 12:12 p.m. | #
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It's still noon so I truly hope better things to come. My first sentence still stands.
Patrickov | 09.03.18 - 12:13 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday to London's Best Blogger.
Ian Brooker | 09.03.18 - 12:18 p.m. | #
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Penblwydd hapus, gลตr diemwnt!
Huw B | 09.03.18 - 12:57 p.m. | #
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Birthday! I hope next year it's happy.
Bob | 09.03.18 - 12:58 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG. xxxx
Auntie Doris | 09.03.18 - 1:23 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday,DG!
Jackal | 09.03.18 - 1:40 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG
Cxx
Chris | 09.03.18 - 1:52 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG - I always enjoy your blog.
Dave K | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 2:03 p.m. | #
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Ever since one of my neighbours, who lives a fairly hand to mouth existence, had his debit card cloned at a cash machine outside Tescos I have made sure only to use ATMs inside stores or my bank thinking that those machines are less likely to have been interfered with.
I'm sorry that you have had a memorable birthday for all the wrong reasons. Clocks go forward in two weeks so that's something to look forward to.
milliem | 09.03.18 - 2:15 p.m. | #
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Happy Happy Birthday dg
Lorenzo | 09.03.18 - 2:18 p.m. | #
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Don't bother reporting it to the police. I am pretty sure that the current protocol is that the bank reports it to the police. In any case, assuming the bank refunds you, you are not the victim (in the eyes of the law) and it makes more sense for the victim to report the crime.
Because cybercrime and fraud are not really localised crime it makes more sense to deal with it nationally. That is why Action Fraud was set up.
Pedantic of Purley | 09.03.18 - 2:53 p.m. | #
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milliem,
Good advice when it can be followed.
Doing it inside the bank also puts more onus on the banks if something untoward happens e.g. someone snatches money out of your hand as you withdraw it. And you can put you money away in relative safety with fewer people seeing where you put it - or even that you withdrew money. Also the CCTV is almost certainly very good.
Pedantic of Purley | 09.03.18 - 2:58 p.m. | #
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Happy birthday, DG. Lovely writing. If it's the cashpoint on the wall of the old NatWest it may be a regular scam. A few weeks back my card was swallowed after the machine made odd noises. I hung around try to process what to do as I had two kids in tow and was in no mood/position to have a protracted phone conversation with an automaton. Anyway, during my despair, the card re-emerged.
Aly | 09.03.18 - 3:26 p.m. | #
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A birthday in Dover. Could be worse. Probably.
France has disappeared - best news I've heard today :)
Frank F | 09.03.18 - 3:41 p.m. | #
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Yup, certainly sounds like Dover.
Me and a friend went to Brighton on Wednesday and when it came to a meal we agreed on fish and chips at somewhere overlooking the sea. I'm pleased we did: it was the best fish and chips I've had in quite a while
RogerW | 09.03.18 - 4:05 p.m. | #
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Many happy returns, DG, in spite of all the hassle, from another daily reader currently on holiday abroad.
@Pedantic of Purley: have you ever tried reporting a crime to Action Fraud? I have, and found the process so convoluted and time consuming that I gave up.
Tim W | 09.03.18 - 5:10 p.m. | #
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@poP
My card theft happened within he Square Mile. Maybe that's why the Police were interested - they have more of a focus on financial fraud than their Met colleagues.
timbo again again | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 5:34 p.m. | #
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Hope you have enjoyed your day. Nice that we could share it via your updates
Brian | 09.03.18 - 5:53 p.m. | #
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Tim W,
No I haven't but I have heard of similar reports. I wasn't recommending it merely pointing out it the 'correct' route to take if for some reason someone insists on reporting it.
I suspect if you dial 101 they will either point you to Action Fraud or just record the details and pass them on unless they categorise you as being someone for whom a local visit and/or investigation is appropriate. This is more likely to be based on the vulnerability of the person affected rather than the nature of the crime itself.
By why should DG report it to the authorities at all? He reported it promptly to the banks so should not be penalised. It is the bank's problem. And it ought to be because they could eliminate this nonsense by having readers that only retract half a card (the bit with the chip on) so that it is always retrievable.
DG did exactly the right thing - well very nearly. He reported the card loss promptly. He had no reason at the time to suspect he had been scammed. He got some emergency money out and didn't let it ruin his day.
Pedantic of Purley | 09.03.18 - 6:30 p.m. | #
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timbo again again,
Maybe. Or maybe it happened a while back when it was down to all local police forces to initiate investigation.
Pedantic of Purley | 09.03.18 - 6:32 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday DG
GB | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 6:39 p.m. | #
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I live in Bow - any chance of letting us know which ATM it was so I can hopefully avoid the same thing happening?
dg writes: See comment at 3.26pm.
Jim Harte | 09.03.18 - 6:44 p.m. | #
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Many Happy Returns DG.
John DLC | 09.03.18 - 7:20 p.m. | #
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Newhaven?
Simon | 09.03.18 - 7:40 p.m. | #
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No castle at Newhaven, only a fort...
I know it's DG's day... but the talk of birth times leads me to reflect on the fact that I was born at 00:08 British Summer Time, which I only realised a few years ago means that I have been celebrating my birthday on the wrong day for nearly 53 years and it's really the day before.
Sarah | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 7:57 p.m. | #
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Oh go on, as (and only as) it's your BDay I'll take the bait and make the comment you are clearly craving about a diet consisting of:
- Golden Wonder pickled onion flavour crisps
- a KitKat
- proper seaside chippy chips
- a Wagon Wheel
I do hope you have salad for your dinner in the Thames-side location...
dg writes: There was some shredded lettuce.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 09.03.18 - 7:58 p.m. | #
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Cheers.
And happy birthday!!
Jim Harte | 09.03.18 - 8:15 p.m. | #
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Happy birthday. May all your electronic display boards be precise.
Ben | 09.03.18 - 8:26 p.m. | #
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Happy Birthday from Dover. I guess the tunnels in about the said castle of the town.
Big Al | 09.03.18 - 8:26 p.m. | #
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Happy birthday, if we could send you a card we would
SJM | 09.03.18 - 9:19 p.m. | #
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Dear DG,
A very happy birthday.
Hope the Thames-side pub was worth a visit.
And thank you for the daily moment of pleasure...
Celal Kavur | 09.03.18 - 9:46 p.m. | #
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And turning out the light
I must have yawned and cuddled up for yet another night
And rattling on the roof I must have heard the sound of rain
The day before you came
Agnetha | 09.03.18 - 11:00 p.m. | #
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I hope that you can look back on today and consider that it was on balance a surprisingly Happy Birthday.
Bob L-S | 09.03.18 - 11:02 p.m. | #
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Belated happy birthday DG.
THC | 10.03.18 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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I wondered whether your 'river-side' destination may have been Mr McKellen's excellent establishment.
Have drunk there a few times, but never dined. One for the summer maybe..
Frank F | 10.03.18 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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Sorry to have missed you.
Many happy returns Mr Geezer.
Serena | 10.03.18 - 11:37 a.m. | #
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Felix Natalis and Many Happy Returns of the Day dg.
My sister was born on 7th March 1965, so she is 2 days older than you. My Uncle Fred was born on 9th March 1930 so is exactly 35 years older than you.
Thanks again for keeping us all entertained, informed and amused.
Kiss kiss
Neesy | 10.03.18 - 7:24 p.m. | #
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