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Hello, Elle!
Is there no "Help" facility on the site, or email, to assist with your message?
If you have an email from Just Giving, your donation will have been processed, I'd imagine?
You could also make another small donation (Go on! It's Christmas!) and this time make sure your message is posted before you press "submit" or whatever?

Update, Elle!
You can "edit", "update" your message at any time.
You will need "donation reference number" which will be on your received email from JustGiving.
Just go back to the site and follow instructions to "edit" message and it should be easy enough, hopefully!

Hi, Rusty!
Oh dear! Been there , attempted to do that !
I pasted in donation reference number and am told it is "incorrect"!
Impasse!
The PDSA have thanked me nicely for my donation though.
I think I probably need to talk to David.
So long as the PDSA has the money, and he knows that we have supported him, I guess all is well?
A pain though!
Now....I have just read on the News that there has been a terrorist attack on a Berlin Christmas market.
Nine people killed.
My daughter was at that self- same market only last week, on her work trip to Berlin!
A scary thought, isn't it?

Hello, Elle!
Yes, a very scary thought indeed!
Some awful things going on in the world!
Elle, check your bank balance to ensure only the right amount has left your bank.
Something odd has happened if it does not recognise your reference number.
There is no confusion between the letter "O" and the number zero "0"?
Can you phone them and ask why it does not know the number that they gave you?
This is a Free number 0345 078 2063, or email their "helpline"?

Good morning, Rusty!
A lovely day here - bright and clear - and cold!
Great to be out!
Now the latest update.......
The message to David has at last appeared on the "Just Giving" website this morning!
My donation reference number though is still unrecognised,
I have phoned the number that you kindly found for me, but it is all recorded with no relevant options - all geared to Charity organisers.
No "human" to be found!
So I have emailed "Just Giving" to apprise them of the situation.
David meanwhile now knows and is also looking into the matter himself.
Seemingly, I am not the first person to tell him of problems with the site so he is going to speak to management this morning.
Whew!
Coffee needed!
Anyway, how are you?
What are you up to today?

Good morning, Elle!
You are on the ball today!
Well done on the progress with JustGiving!
You have earned your coffee!
It is an excellent idea for David to get on to them.
It is his account/charity that could suffer if folk get irked because they have problems donating, and walk away.
Nobody wants that!
Be an idea to check your bank balance or PayPal account to satisfy yourself that all is in order?
That is what I would do, but I am a "belt and braces" man!
It is a frosty start to the day here.
A bit colder than of late.
I have done my ASDA trip and no further plans.
I have an eye on the sky in case of bad weather arriving sooner than forecast.

Hi, Rusty!
I swear it is getting colder by the minute here!
I just popped out into the garden and it is freezing!
Much colder than at 8am!
I am drinking hot soup to warm me up!
I paid the donation by Barclaycard, so should be okay.
I am with "Barclaycard Secure" and my card is password protected.
I do agree with you about being ultra careful.
Right....I have done some household chores, finished the Times QC (easy today).
And am now going to wrap seven more presents.....................!

Hello, Elle!
That's fine that your account is safe!
The sky is as black as my boot here.
Heading out for a walk and hoping the sky does not fall!
Not looked at the crossword yet!

Hi, Rusty!
I hope you enjoyed your walk?
How far afield did you venture?
I hope you made it home again without any ill treatment from the weather.
Your black skies did not sound good!
I hate to say it....... but the sun is still shining here!
Very cold though!
I have finished wrapping presents - a lot of work that will be destroyed within seconds!
Still, I am feeling "festive" - I have the tree lights on, and folk keep dropping by with cards........

Hello, Elle,
The walk was fine!
A bit dampish but that is what raingear is for!
I have been reading about some of our local primary schoolchildren who, today, completed a 270 miles "Antarctic" walk!
They wanted to "walk in the footsteps" of Scott and Shackleton who trekked that distance from RRS Discovery in Antarctica in 1901.
The children started their walk in August and walked at "playtimes" and lunch breaks, until today, when they finished their walk at the gangway of RRS Discovery at the harbour.
I think these young ones are just great, and so are their teachers!


Hello, Pigale,
Hope you are fine!
On Friday evening there is a programme on BBC2 television here.
It is called "Wild Tales from the Village".
The blurb says, "A year in the life of an extraordinary village hidden away in the French countryside, showing the parallel world of tiny creatures that live side by side with unsuspecting humans."
I like the sound of it and am looking forward to seeing it.
When I saw the "blurb" I immediately thought of you and your village!
A pity you don't get BBC2!