What are you all up to

Hope you both get the teeth sorted. I have a check up booked for September, and know I have a couple of nigglers that will need sorting☹️

I was surprised to see on the Sky Sports Racing Channel, that the Club sponsor a number of horse races at Uttoxeter, which I assume must cost quite a bit.  

Goldie I also have one of those, just a little newer, use it every year as our old cooker apple tree, we planted it 40 years ago, gives us a huge crop each year, plenty to see us through all winter with many puds. Not this year however, slim pickings this year to start with, maybe it’s having a rest year, which it well deserves, then the squirrels got to it! Bloody things, they pull them off, take one bite then drop them to the ground. They picked the very last one yesterday. I’m getting good with the mega water pistol but I can’t be on watch all of the time. They run but are back again within a few minutes. Lots of them this year, and I’ve never known them to take the apples before. Goldie just to say I do love your dresser in the background of your photo.

It’s a bit of a nightmare is bike insurance, especially for very expensive ones. We actually use Pedalsure who are a specialist bike insurance for our House insurance, as they are the only ones that seem to understand things clearly. We’ve had bikes stolen from home (garage) but thankfully, at the time we had all the receipts, and our local bike shop provided us with full details of all our purchases, so we got a full payout, plus repairs to garage. Some tea leaf will have spotted us putting them away😡 We got a phone call from police months later, thinking they had found OH’s very distinctive bike, but it wasn’t. 

I wish with hindsite that I have not bought  the bike (which was due to the senior moment that I have mentioned), as it has far too many caveats to avoid it being stolen and/or voiding any inurance on it! Obviously too late now though.

I really do wonder how capable insurance companies are if they don't even know that a customer is paying a premium for something that they don't actually insure, or tell customers something, which as you say, is complete rubbish. 

What we are told over the phone is often at odds with what is in the written terms and conditions and I have given  insurance companies information which I have later found out, they have not written down, which could have voided a policy if a claim had been made.  Thank you for the information and I have taken note of what you have said for future reference.

The area where we live isn't known to be an area for many burglaries or thefts and my next door neighbour has one of those CCTV doorbells which picks up people who walk up my drive as well, BUT never say never! I would think that they are a good deterrent to burglars.

I will try pedalsure, although I have received some quotes from Eversure and Churchill so will compare the comparison quotes!!!

Perhaps I should have bought a canoe instead, as the way the weather has been last year and this year, it may have been more appropriate.  The weather is looking a lot better for next week though!

I am pleased to hear that Lizzie is getting better.  Pets do seem to pick up more "bugs" when they are older but tend to get over them quickly as unlike humans, they simply live for now and don't stress over things like we do.

That’s an incredible price for an overnight stay. I guess none of the big six mega vet corporates are interested in the Outer Hebrides. It would have been around £500 with our vets😡. We shall stay on with current vets for rest of Choccy Boy’s life, but we have an independent vet still a little bit further from home, comes highly recommended. Vets are good where we are, but the prices set by company are off the scale. We haggle every visit so that we don’t end up paying the “new customer rate”. They are struggling for vets as well.

Well the family early birthday party for OH didn’t quite go to plan. First I cut my thumb and had a bit of a problem to stop the bleeding. We just managed lunch in the garden and then the heavens opened so stuck inside for the rest of the day, the evening bbq food had to be cooked in the oven. We had just finished this, desert and birthday cake when very suddenly our granddaughter became unwell, ambulance called and here very quickly and they bluelighted her to hospital. Her Mum went with her, hopefully they will let her go home later tonight once they have stabilised her. One of the paramedics recognised her from previous calls. Having said that the youngsters all said they had had a great time and our daughter in law has just phoned to thank us and to say they enjoyed it. Birthday boy said that apart from granddaughter being taken ill he also very much enjoyed himself. I’m just a bit shattered now. Dentist tomorrow.