Mundane News

[pawl]

Unusually i fancy something sweet to eat. I have two puff pastry mince pies and a carton of custard. Will they go together?🤔

Definitely

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Check your insurance renewal dates!
~On Tuesday [20th] I asked Mrs A_T when the car insurance was due as I'd just got a reminder for the house insurance and remembered the car insurance date was around the same time.... Mrs A_T couldn't remember either but hadn't seen a renewal reminder letter yet.

I checked to find it had run out on the 13th! I rang MoreThan and said could they check if it had auto-renewed as we hadn't had a reminder. No, it had expired... and as it had expired I couldn't just renew it on the phone I'd have to fill out a new policy form on-line... she couldn't do it apparently.

Not happy as Mrs A_T had driven me to the hospital in Newcastle the day before for a routine appointment... thankfully without incident [or a Police number plate check!!]

Went on line to find the MoreThan website wasn't working and said I should ring the number that I'd rung minutes earlier!

I went on the AA website and filled in a new policy application on-line and paid with a card... insured within minutes and the best bit because it was a new customer policy it was £300 cheaper than last year's MoreThan payment- same terms.

This morning [24th] I got two letters from MoreThan dated the 14th telling me that my insurance was 'due to expire soon' [ie the 13th!] and could I ring to pay the premium... £496 proudly announcing 'down from £559 last year'! I won't be contacting them again.

So, more LessThan than MoreThan then.

 

[Illaveago]

This is one of those things I'm sure I would understand if I was a proper cyclist.

It's a bit like I spy but using cycle maker names .

 

[Gravity Aided]

Oh! That frame I bought which I thought began with R now looks like it begins with F and is a professional !

A Falcon, is it?

 

[fossyant]

I have been roped into fettling sewing machines today. One of MrsF's 3 overlockers needs looking at. The thread arm wouldn't stay up, and I've found the part inside the machine and glued it back in, as well as hoovering it out as I have some mini attachments for the hoover exactly for jobs like this.

The next job is to strip down one of her expensive computerised sewing machines and clean it out as she suspects there are a few broken needles in there. Shes got 4 sewing machines. So thats 7 vs my 4 bikes...

 

[fossyant]

I'm not touching this one....🤪 That is a full colour screen instead of buttons and dials.

 

[Reynard]

Overcast, mild, very blowy and attempting to rain here chez Casa Reynard.

Spent the morning doing the following: pulled up the courgette plants, cut off the half a dozen courgettes and one marrow left on them (sneaky marrow, didn't see it!), harvested the grapes, cut the grape vine back, re-jigged the fridge in the utility room in preparation of this evening's yellow stickering trip, filled up the cats' biscuit dispenser thingy and made a large cauldron of leek & potato soup.

It is almost lunchtime, and I am going to indulge in the hummus I made yesterday. Given the amount garlic I put in it, it should work well in keeping people away from me in Tesco later...

 

[Reynard]

Oh, and a little birdy told me something earlier, so...

Happy birthday @Speicher

May you have an absolutely wonderful day, and I shall raise a in your honour xxx

 

[Andy in Germany]

Oh, and a little birdy told me something earlier, so...

Happy birthday @Speicher

May you have an absolutely wonderful day, and I shall raise a in your honour xxx

@Speicher: What @Reynard said: Have a good day.

 

[Oldhippy]

Very wet in Oxfordshire but would be out if it wasn't my weekend working. 🧐

 

[DCLane]

Had an expensive lunch in Goring - £16 for 2 sandwiches and drinks - and am sat in Streatley waiting for the rain to clear so we can test-ride the national hill climb route.

 

[fossyant]

Cotton hanger doo-dah fixed on the overlocker and the computerised sewing machine is no longer telling MrsF something is jammed and is now working. Did pull out a chunk of compressed cotton which may have been jamming the machine.

 

[Illaveago]

I was not given the chance to ring any bell when I finished my treatment.

I'm sorry to hear that .
There wasn't anyone there apart from my wife to witness mine . The previous patients had the staff watch them ring the bell .

 

[Illaveago]

Check your insurance renewal dates!
~On Tuesday [20th] I asked Mrs A_T when the car insurance was due as I'd just got a reminder for the house insurance and remembered the car insurance date was around the same time.... Mrs A_T couldn't remember either but hadn't seen a renewal reminder letter yet.

I checked to find it had run out on the 13th! I rang MoreThan and said could they check if it had auto-renewed as we hadn't had a reminder. No, it had expired... and as it had expired I couldn't just renew it on the phone I'd have to fill out a new policy form on-line... she couldn't do it apparently.

Not happy as Mrs A_T had driven me to the hospital in Newcastle the day before for a routine appointment... thankfully without incident [or a Police number plate check!!]

Went on line to find the MoreThan website wasn't working and said I should ring the number that I'd rung minutes earlier!

I went on the AA website and filled in a new policy application on-line and paid with a card... insured within minutes and the best bit because it was a new customer policy it was £300 cheaper than last year's MoreThan payment- same terms.

This morning [24th] I got two letters from MoreThan dated the 14th telling me that my insurance was 'due to expire soon' [ie the 13th!] and could I ring to pay the premium... £496 proudly announcing 'down from £559 last year'! I won't be contacting them again.

Well the name of the company does say , "More Than !".

 

[Illaveago]

A Falcon, is it?

Yes! Your turn now .