I had a rather busy morning. Tigger has a new phone (as I think I mentioned) and she suggested that I might like to take over her old one. It’s an iPhone 8, like my current phone, but has twice the memory and as you can never have too much memory these days, it did seem to make sense for me to swap.

Moving all your data to a new phone used to be a complicated and time-consuming activity. Not these days, at least, not if you are migrating from one iPhone to another. In that case, the process is virtually automatic and, once set in motion, completes the changeover all by itself.

Everything seemed to go smoothly and within a very short time, I had in my hands what appeared to be a perfect clone of my old phone. Just to make sure, I tried all the apps. Everything was fine until I came to my bank apps. Understandably, banks don’t take lightly the idea of moving their apps from one phone to another. Before the apps will work on the new phone, you have to perform some validation checks. Eventually, I managed to satisfy all of them except one: my credit card app.

There are several ways to set up the app and all of them failed. I ran the checks again and again but to no avail. It was time to call the bank.

What with people working from home and doing their banking online, when you phone a bank, you inevitably find yourself in a queue. When at last I managed to speak to a human, I explained my problem with the app. He politely informed me that he would have to contact their technical people to find out what to do. There was a queue fir their attention so this would take a while. In the meantime, he would put me on hold.

When he came back, he proposed talking me through the set-up procedure. I must say, he was an extremely patient man and did his best to help me. We tried several times to set up the app and it failed each time. I went back in hold while my helper queued in his turn to speak to technical support.

We went through several iterations of this procedure. Eventually, our man returned from his latest chat with tech to say that they had deleted my account and this should make the set-up work at last. It didn’t.

Then, just when we seemed to have exhausted all possibilities, he spotted that one little detail that had been missed. We fixed it and… bingo! The app loaded and worked.

I think I must have spent an hour in the phone and that, together with the time I had spent before that trying to get the app to work, used up a large chunk of the morning.

Tigger is at work Wednesday to Friday this week and so I an on my own today until the evening. After lunch, I managed to convince myself that I should go out for a walk. I did go but, to be honest, my heart was not in it. I took a few photos along the way but not many. Tigger sent me some of hers so I will add them as a bonus!

Leak repaired

The water leak in Claremont Square has been repaired but for how long?

Afternoon sunshine in Amwell Street

From Claremont Square I crossed Amwell Street into Great Percy Street.

I mentioned the other day that I hadn’t been keeping tabs on the neighbourhood’s window boxes so today I looked to see what was available in Great Percy Street. Not a lot, it seems, and I collected a grand total of three.

I think this is the best of the three, both for the amount and variety of plants.

This one is quite pretty too. It will be interesting to see how the plants change through the seasons.

Percy Circus

On reaching Percy Circus, I thought about sitting there for a while but decided to keep walking.

Path to Bevin Court

I took this path from Percy Circus to the housing estate called Bevin Court. This part of the walk is still quite bare from winter. Perhaps it will become greener soon.

Green grass and daffodils

Further up, there is green grass and daffodils growing in the shade of the trees.

Tree sheltering daffodils

I continue to enjoy and admire these mature trees growing in so many parts of the borough, not only beautiful on their own account but also encouraging birds and other wildlife.

Cruikshank Street – one the the neighbours

Walking up Cruikshank Street, I met one of the neighbours, enjoying the sunshine.

A mood of feline calm

Although I spoke to him politely, he maintained a mood of feline calm and immobility so I thought it best to leave him in peace.

And now, as promised, some photos sent by Tigger. They were all taken “somewhere in the city”.