Credit card and air miles

I've been using my Nat West Visa card very little this last year or so as it collects Air Miles and I don't fly any more (I'm discussing with a charity about whether I can transfer my existing air miles to them for their staff to use).  I've got another card that collects money for the WWF, though suspect it's a fairly small %, as they never openly state what it is.

One of the things I've become a lot more confident about since I started hanging around Money Saving Expert is being willing to haggle and to state up front what I want.  Today, I phoned up Nat West Visa and stated that I wanted a card that gave me cashback or a decent charity donation and no Air Miles of any kind whatsoever.

I now have a Nat West Visa 0.5% cashback card.  Given the amount we put through the card annually (we always pay it off in full each month) that's a non-trivial amount of cashback.  I can take that cashback when it's added to the card in November and donate it to charity and know exactly what I'm getting - and I can pick any charity I want.

And all without the hassle of applying for a new card.

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I'm still trying to find the perfect journal layout.

I've a preference for Bloggish and Expressive because of the tag lists.  Bloggish Powell St is nice and straightforward and uncluttered.  In fact, the only thing I don't like about it is that there is no clear visual break between difference people's comments.

A lot of the Expressive options are far too fussy.  The default isn't too bad, though I'm not madly keen on the font.  Again, there's no clear breaks between comments.  However, I quite like the three column layout of Expressive.

Expressive - Book - has a better font, but the tag cloud looks a bit odd and hard to read.

Expressive - Autumn theme cherry - much easier to read and good handling of tags, but I don't like the header.

Expressive Butterflies grey - underlining the orange tags is not a good idea.

Expressive - CAlifornia Poppy  - tag cloud has font problems

Expressive - Carson - not too bad.  Tag cloud is mostly readable and comments by the owner of a journal are boxed when you read the comments.

Expressive - Cityscape London - messy tag cloud with some font sizes.

Aargh!  This is killing my wrists.  What I want is some version of Expressive that has a readable tag cloud and is reasonably plain in general look.  I can't tell what they look like well enough from the theme preview page, so I have to keep viewing my journal through them on another tab and it's not good for me.

I'm going to stick with Bloggish Powell St for today.