Getting the Car Insured

How can the price of car insurance for the same cover, full comp, business use on a new car, having not had a policy of my own, in the UK, I lack no claims bonus. I’ve been driving over 20 years, everything from old bangers, to new Merc’s, and never had an accident worse than losing a wing mirror, I didn’t even claim for!

How can the policy prices differ by so much?

Direct Line quoted me £986 special offer as I have being a named driver on Mums policy with them and they say they give me a no claims bonus for that?

The worse was £1721.53, Thanks but no thanks ;-(

Admiral were the cheapest of the big name brands £452.75 without any no claims

Take a look at the price comparison web sites; I have saved a few hundred pounds!

www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/

Finding a name for the New Baby

Been reading about vehicle registration in the UK. I knew the number plates had a date identifier, just call me thick, I didn’t realise they came out bi-annually!

Nor did I realise that the first of these two letters is a mnemonic standing for the name of the broad area where the registration office is located. This is intended to make the registration more memorable than an arbitrary code. For example, A is used as the first character in all registrations issued by the three offices located in the vicinity of East Anglia.

So I figure out that my new car when I collect it, will have plates that start with a start with G, the Kent and Sussex issuing office based in Maidstone, otherwise known as the Garden of England. The age will be 60, and the rest is random. There is a good chance my new plate will start with ‘GO6O’

Not “GOGO”

I like that. It's quite a fun name, for a little car that woun’t go very fast, and difficult to forget even for a dyslexic like me!

My old Honda bike, had the numbers and ΠΚΚ, which would translate into PKK and is a common abbreviation for The Kurdistan Workers' Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan or پارتی کار که‌رانی کوردستان Parti Karkerani Kurdistan), not that anyone ever commented, surprising when you think about where I was living. But easy for me to recall, everytime I brought her a ferry ticket!

Greek Law Enforcement.

The Greeks have cycle lanes,but where is the law enforcement? When someone gets knocked off a bike they could be killed.



In Greece there is little to no law enforcement, it is the same with

• Crash helmet laws,
• Smoking in public buildings,
• Parked motor bikes and cars on the pavements is quite normal too.

ect ect, the list could go on and on.

They just all do what they want, yet they call it a democracy!

Just had to post this

I couldn't find "Miss Gobby" my mates will know what I'm on about..

Calendars

Working with Calendars

Trying to get my windows beta 10 Calendar to sync with my iphone and other calendars -

just needs a bit of toying with.

Smile with the Specials

Well Done to the Specials on winning the webby awards (they had my vote, and I'm delighted that such a nice bunch of special people won)


www.the-specials.com

Fight the Parking Ticket

Yep we managed to get a parking ticket, or as it officially called, a penalty parking notice. Soon as we saw the yellow bag stuck on the windscreen there was a big sigh, and a few words spoken. We went straight from the car park to the council offices to challenge the ticket. Did you know:-

“Some 2,749 appeals were not even contested by local councils. Sometimes councils will not contest appeals purely on the grounds that they want to clear a backlog”
Read more

The car clearly is adapted for a wheelchair, can the parking attendant’s in Canterbury not use some common sense? We have a Blue Badge.
What the BBC say today on Disability Blue Badge Scheme

What's in your Wellies

Emms family grow veg in theirs

Rubbish

Looks like Thanet Council are saving money and economising on bins? I know it is our taxes, but three households, one bin.

Are Thanet Council making up for animal cruelty by providing free food for the rodents?

Cheap Holiday, expensive phone bills

I'm sure my contract with Vodafone is due to run out soon, so just maybe I should take some advice and learn.



Actually my phone bill during my holiday wasn't that bad. I only accept text and no calls while Im away..