luck comes in threes

No notes/coins are obsolete as such Jacky, just some are no longer in circulation. The five pound note have changed from the paper ones to smaller plastic ones. Now the ten pound note is in the process of doing the same but you can use both types at the moment. The pound coins have also changed, old ones are about to vanish.
The banks will take old currency in though. You may have to find someone with an account to pay it into as they say they won't exchange old for new.

Please tell me what money is going to be obsolete soon. I have several notes in my drawer which are now useless because I had them in my purse and they had become obsolete between visits to the UK.

Anya that really is good.

Every time I clear out drawers I find at the very least a fiver and yesterday it was £20 + small change.

Wow Anya Lucky indeed!

Cheque not check!

Oddly enough ‘yes’ has to be the answer to that. I changed fuel suppliers and a check for £79 arrived last Monday from my old supplier (despite them saying I wasn’t owed anything) then another my ‘excess’ payment of £300 from an accident I was involved in in 2011 was refunded on Wednesday as it was decided I wasn’t not to blame and then a substantial payment of over £10,00 arrived yesterday for a PPI which I’d been told I wasn’t entitled to, but which I referred to the Financial Ombudsman.

Happy days ?

Woo, lucky you indeed, MaggieMay!

Not luck here, but joy ... Joy of welcoming DS1 home for an overnight stay from hospital, joy of welcoming more family for a Sunday brunch and joy of unexpected job fulfillment So not a bad week for me either!