Happy Birthday!Birthday today so taken day off and will be doing naff all
That wont last long
WhiskyLassie
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Happy birthdayBirthday today so taken day off and will be doing naff all
That wont last long
Many hip, hap, happy returns!Birthday today so taken day off and will be doing naff all
That wont last long
Me and boyo more or less finished off the job of clearing a 2 metre margin around the "field". in places it's a lot wider, we got a bit carried away.
So in all about 9 hours work for two blokes.
I am SO unused to this physical work!
then off shopping and to see some peeps.
I am still spitting feathers at the fact that our house insurance for the UK has flown up from £350 odd to £550 odd, for exactly the same cover! (only just received it in the post bag from the UK). Plus they took the money off W's credit card and it was only on ringing up about it I was told this was exactly the last day in which I was still in the "cooling off" period.
As we go away so long each year it isn't easy to "gocompare" as there aren't that many companies that would cover us. So we are having to "suck it up" as they say.
I will be writing to them to get them to justify this horrendous increase but I doubt it'll do much good.
Have any of yous had this sort of thing with house insurance?
So in all about 9 hours work for two blokes.
I am SO unused to this physical work!
then off shopping and to see some peeps.
I am still spitting feathers at the fact that our house insurance for the UK has flown up from £350 odd to £550 odd, for exactly the same cover! (only just received it in the post bag from the UK). Plus they took the money off W's credit card and it was only on ringing up about it I was told this was exactly the last day in which I was still in the "cooling off" period.
As we go away so long each year it isn't easy to "gocompare" as there aren't that many companies that would cover us. So we are having to "suck it up" as they say.
I will be writing to them to get them to justify this horrendous increase but I doubt it'll do much good.
Have any of yous had this sort of thing with house insurance?
Is this something to do with having increased cover for the house being left unoccupied over a certain length of time??Me and boyo more or less finished off the job of clearing a 2 metre margin around the "field". in places it's a lot wider, we got a bit carried away.
So in all about 9 hours work for two blokes.
I am SO unused to this physical work!
then off shopping and to see some peeps.
I am still spitting feathers at the fact that our house insurance for the UK has flown up from £350 odd to £550 odd, for exactly the same cover! (only just received it in the post bag from the UK). Plus they took the money off W's credit card and it was only on ringing up about it I was told this was exactly the last day in which I was still in the "cooling off" period.
As we go away so long each year it isn't easy to "gocompare" as there aren't that many companies that would cover us. So we are having to "suck it up" as they say.
I will be writing to them to get them to justify this horrendous increase but I doubt it'll do much good.
Have any of yous had this sort of thing with house insurance?
JimS
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My insurance went up the same
No rationalisation needed just rip off Britain
I cannot think so.
It has been left empty for the same period of time each year, saving Covid and one year Brexit, since I retired in 2015.
Thanks for this, it is what I expected to be told.
Obvs I did ask but got told nothing, when talking with the renewal bod.
Doubt they'll even answer my letter.
saxavordian
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Some of you lot ask what I do in the morning.
WhiskyLassie
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I tend to blond girl flirt and say if I'm stressed it's the girly time.Me and boyo more or less finished off the job of clearing a 2 metre margin around the "field". in places it's a lot wider, we got a bit carried away.
So in all about 9 hours work for two blokes.
I am SO unused to this physical work!
then off shopping and to see some peeps.
I am still spitting feathers at the fact that our house insurance for the UK has flown up from £350 odd to £550 odd, for exactly the same cover! (only just received it in the post bag from the UK). Plus they took the money off W's credit card and it was only on ringing up about it I was told this was exactly the last day in which I was still in the "cooling off" period.
As we go away so long each year it isn't easy to "gocompare" as there aren't that many companies that would cover us. So we are having to "suck it up" as they say.
I will be writing to them to get them to justify this horrendous increase but I doubt it'll do much good.
Have any of yous had this sort of thing with house insurance?
6pot
Well-Known Member
We've got an awkward insurance policy too which means we can't just gocompare or direct line etc. Because it's a Victorian building divided into three and it's a shared freehold, which is great in some ways, we have to use a commercial insurance company and it went up this year. Because we divide the premium into three it didn't seem too bad but the overall increase was quite a lot.Me and boyo more or less finished off the job of clearing a 2 metre margin around the "field". in places it's a lot wider, we got a bit carried away.
So in all about 9 hours work for two blokes.
I am SO unused to this physical work!
then off shopping and to see some peeps.
I am still spitting feathers at the fact that our house insurance for the UK has flown up from £350 odd to £550 odd, for exactly the same cover! (only just received it in the post bag from the UK). Plus they took the money off W's credit card and it was only on ringing up about it I was told this was exactly the last day in which I was still in the "cooling off" period.
As we go away so long each year it isn't easy to "gocompare" as there aren't that many companies that would cover us. So we are having to "suck it up" as they say.
I will be writing to them to get them to justify this horrendous increase but I doubt it'll do much good.
Have any of yous had this sort of thing with house insurance?
Stone56
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THAY bury them at this time of year for the wintertime as thay only semi hibernat but thay have a **** memory and the trees grow
Stone56
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We had the fire department deliver 2 loads this week so 24 cubic meters nice having a shower int it price has gone up but the vegetables like it
I don't pay to get water but I do have to pay to get rid of it.We had the fire department deliver 2 loads this week so 24 cubic meters nice having a shower int it price has gone up but the vegetables like it
Boyo wants water to his property for watering etc. i.e. he doesn't want to have to pay for it.
so has been looking into getting someone to make a borehole for him
30 metres deep.
So he was all chuffed to tell me tother day that he has finally found someone who'll do it... €5k.
Not saying that is an unreasonable sum, not that I have anything to judge it by, but I did say he needed to think seriously about capturing the water coming off his roof like we do. Not in exactly the same way as that would entail major works to put in an underground tank and pipes, but to at least have a system of butts like lots of us do in the UK and indeed we did before all the Frog stuff took off. He is at least thinking seriously about it.
Can't help thinking that €5k buys an awful lot of water. Our bills have dropped but not by a huge amount once we started pumping our own stuff for watering the plants.
so has been looking into getting someone to make a borehole for him
30 metres deep.
So he was all chuffed to tell me tother day that he has finally found someone who'll do it... €5k.
Not saying that is an unreasonable sum, not that I have anything to judge it by, but I did say he needed to think seriously about capturing the water coming off his roof like we do. Not in exactly the same way as that would entail major works to put in an underground tank and pipes, but to at least have a system of butts like lots of us do in the UK and indeed we did before all the Frog stuff took off. He is at least thinking seriously about it.
Can't help thinking that €5k buys an awful lot of water. Our bills have dropped but not by a huge amount once we started pumping our own stuff for watering the plants.
I've forgotten. Where do you store it? And can you drink and cook with it?We had the fire department deliver 2 loads this week so 24 cubic meters nice having a shower int it price has gone up but the vegetables like it
