Rowan Tree and Red Thread

I love the online application systems that banks now provide. Sam and I are trying to get a new car. A loan would be nice. I've gone to our bank, the one we have our current account with and all that, and tried to get a loan sorted out. I wanted to borrow €X over three years, repayable over 36 monthly installments. Instead I seem to have, in principle, borrowed €X over one year to be repaid in 10 monthly installments. This is not what I wanted. Sigh.

As we're off to Finland bright and early (well early) tomorrow, I'm not going to be around to sort it out until the second week of April. Double sigh.

I only tried out their bloody online application thingy because they were offering a 1% discount for all the online loans. B*ggers.

We're off to Finland tomorrow starting sometime before consciousness round 5 am. An epic journey of many flights, airports and sundry delights awaits us, most of which will be accompanied by airline food. Pray for us if that's your sort of thing, or wire up your infinite improbability drives to a really hot cup of tea by preference. I know it's unlikely I'll see one of those for a while.