Diary 1st To 4th March 2017

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Diary Wednesday 1st March 2017 My overdue money from yesterday finally went through today, just in time to stop my direct debit outgoing payments pushing me into the red. I had to rush round paying other bills too, which I normally split between the end of the previous month and the start of the current one. I skipped the job search activity to attend a voluntary work keynote meeting of some health and wellbeing groups associated with and affiliated with the university though I as only there as an observer. I did get to mention our film festival project as few of us involved in that were in attendance. I sent off some book reviews I have done of some books sent to me by post from a publishing group. They may send me more in the next few months. They were very good books this quarter. Diary Thursday 2nd March 2017 I went to the job club today, which was pleasant though I found no good job leads at all. Diary Friday 3rd March 2017 My first welfare hearing this month, and never a happy experience for me. I arrived nice and early at the offices to find out my usual advisor as off ill. A lady sitting in for him interrogated me like I was a crime suspect. She asked me hat kind of work I as looking for even after reading my complete catalogue of job searches completed since my last hearing (I have to produce these as part of my claim). I told her I am looking for warehousing and call centre work. She insisted that there is lots of such work out there as if I could just pluck jobs from trees at any time, and demanded to know why I get no interviews despite as I told her, few companies even replying to my applications at all. I presented her with print outs of the e-mails I sent out for jobs over one day and she finally let me go. I checked my bank details and discovered that Amazon Prime had charged me for a subscription I had specifically turned down when offered it during an ordinary Amazon book purchase last month. I got assurances the money will be reimbursed within eight days. Very annoying. Diary Saturday 4th March 2017 A quiet day so I just did some essential food shopping while the weather was nicer than usual, and turned the heating off. I have a heap of old coins, some of which a friend assures me may be of a little value, so I have contacted a professional coin dealer about possibly selling them, but he looked at the photos and dismissed them as of no value. Very disappointing. I contacted my friend who thinks he might be able to help me sell them. The photo is of one of the coins. Arthur Chappell