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[venta]

Someone has just written me a cheque. They bank with NatWest. NatWest do cheque books with animals on.

I have a cheque with a badger on it!

This is very exciting. It's almost (but not quite) worth not banking it.

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

The very first cheque I ever wrote was in May 1989 and it had a fox on it. :D

[venta.livejournal.com]

Turns out there's nothing new :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I was secretly quite disappointed when I switched my current account back to NW in 2008 and my cheque book was just plain grey.

I've never written a single cheque with it, mind you, and they'll be phasing them out before I get round to it. I should have made a fuss and got animal ones, then at least I could gaze at them while not using them. :)

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

I've never written a single cheque with it, mind you, and they'll be phasing them out before I get round to it.
I had to write a cheque to a solicitor a couple of weeks ago, and I was quite surprised to see that it was the first cheque I'd written in six years!

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

My cheque book has a Cheshire cat on the cover but, alas, no animals on the actual cheques. (I'm with smile.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

No fair. I'm with Lloyds, and don't get so much as a horse.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I, briefly, had an animal chequebook from NW, but that was long long ago ...

[ebee.livejournal.com]

You can request them just by phoning and they change the default ones they send you.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I'm not that bothered, to be honest.

But badgers are striped, not chequed...

[j4.livejournal.com]

Dude! That's almost worth switching to Natwest for!

Re: But badgers are striped, not chequed...

[lnr]

*groan* :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

My first bank account was with NatWest, and with it there was a little booklet explaining How It Works. It included the snippet that you could write a cheque on the side of a cow and it would be legally valid, if you'd used the right wording. (Or on an egg.)

Since then, cheques that just have pictures of animals have seemed less exciting.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

I don't care what a cheque looks like (and I used them a good deal) provided the ban will allow me to have just my initials and surname on it, without the honorific. My marital status should be of no interest to the recipient. I dread to think of having to fight the battle again when I leave RBS (as soon as Santander takes over completely).

[venta.livejournal.com]

But surely, if you could have a functional chequebook with no honorific, wouldn't it be even better if it had a nice furry beastie on it?

I've never thought about whether my chequebook said "Miss" on it. It doesn't. That's Lloyds, but I know you've gone off them, too :)

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

The joint account's still with Lloyds but not my personal one since they wrote to the Dad after I'd made a telephone inquiry about my personal account.

[ulfilias.livejournal.com]

I've been with Natwest for years and have lots of cheques with animals on. Always something i rather liked !

Will be a shame when cheques die out fully.