So last Friday we took baby Poppy to be registered (after making an appointment to do so)-
- taking the opportunity (while we happened to be there) -
- to get some more books out of the library (as the registry office is in the same building)...filling out the forms (with exactly the same lady who registered Thomas) took about ten minutes, including niceties, and then we were free to wander around Reigate town centre for a bit, scoring Thomas a Dr Who action figure in one of the charity shops and Poppy a nice Lamaze panda bear snuggly-thing to suck in the toy shop-
- and then we popped to the little (extremely noisy) cafe in Priory park for a spot of special occasion lunch-
-of rather good pizza (Thomas carefully picking off all the particularly good bits from mine ;)...
However, when it came time to try and open bank accounts we hit a bit of a brick wall-
- everywhere we tried told us they were too busy (urm? Yep, huge queue in Natwest as you can clearly see) and asked us to make an appointment for a future date, which we didn't, deciding instead to check out all the various deals online, but from the looks of things poor old Thomas and Poppy won't be getting a little plastic elephant money box, or a Griffin saver's document wallet and ruler, all the banks (in Reigate at least) seem to have stopped doing that sort of thing, just offering some measly stickers or vouchers! :(
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