Good news and bad news

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The good news is that while I was going through a load of old credit card receipts, statements, etc. and shredding them I found a ten pound note.

The bad news is that it's the ten pound note that was withdrawn from circulation in 2003... Not sure if the bank will still take them, we shall see. If not, I think it has to go to the Bank of England or something.

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I was working near the Bank of England recently and took the opportunity to pop in with an out of date £50 and £20 that we had found in an old piggy bank. It took around 10 minutes to fill out the forms and get some crisp £20's and a £10 in return and was quite fun to actually walk in and use it as a bank (there is a dressed up doorman and everything). I'm glad I didn't just post it to them.

If you email them they will send you the forms to fill in by return mail, but they are different to the forms you fill in if you go in person so having them completed doesn't actually help very much (although the cashier just copied the information to the correct forms so I guess it gave me more gawping time.)