Tuesday, the 16th of April 2024: “West Brom’s Quirks and Stress”!!!

Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 13 degrees, chilly, sunny and slightly overcast.   Tuesday is the day I usually visit the two building societies in Kingswinford village for my mother. She receives money at one and pays her bills at the other, which isn’t very logical. I’ve suggested she simplify this by having just one account for both, but she doesn’t want […]

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Tuesday the 20th of February 2024: “Bureaucracy and Stress at The West Bromwich Building Society”!!!

Wordsley, Stourbridge, England: 8 degrees, chilly, overcast and with the possibility of rain. Stress at the West Bromwich Building Society in Kingswinford. Every Tuesday, my mother collects her pension from the West Bromwich Building Society in Kingswinford. She needs to withdraw the money there to deposit it in the Nationwide Building Society next door to pay her bills. I don’t […]

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