Latest moan from you and me - 2016

Good afternoon @fat controller @Jiffy many thanks for your valuable input,after listening to 36 options I chose the one that said are you thinking of leaving I then got through(20 minutes later)the chap on the other end said hello ,I explained at length in microscopic detail that the price quoted was extortionate

This is the breakdown(not me)the cover

Roadside £74.77p
Home start £73.35p
Relay £86.03p

Total £234.15p

I then explained that Mrs Woo only drove locally due to personal circumstances and that the Relay she didn't need ,he then said look I can offer you a service that we don't advertise which £45 but that is only a 20 radius and no further,but as an existing customer we can give you a special deal of £95 which includes Home start and roadside,I said I would think about it and get back to him

 

I use Privilege for my insurance, Woo, as it's the cheapest of the lot and, as FC pointed out, you can get road recovery "bolted on" so Privilege have included full cover for the UK and Europe for an extra £70 added to my insurance premium. It is easier and cheaper by far to get a deal with your insurance company when renewing your policy. Why not speak to your insurance company and see what it will cost to add road recovery to the insurance premium. I think you will be surprised and pleased at the price.
The AA seem to regard their customers as walking Cash Machines and will keep raising the premium every year. Insurance companies do the same. Privilege send me a insurance quote every year costing me more than the previous year, but when I go online to their site and put in all my details the online quote is always cheaper by far. So I ring Privilege and explain that their online quote for me is vastly cheaper than their annual postal notification. They check that and then agree to the online quote which is always cheaper than the actual premium than I'm paying for the present year..............so I've been reducing the annual cost of the insurance premium and fully car recovery for the last 4 years.

 

We've been with the AA for over 50 years. Our cover cost £131.11 in April and it covers both of us for Home Start and Roadside. Nowadays it isn't linked to a specific car but for any car either of us may be driving. They, now, also include a number of freebies. The only one I can think of at the moment is free key replacement if we lose the key.

I've a feeling that we get the Home Start chucked in as gift for good conduct.

I don't think that we have needed their help on more than half a dozen occasions but we've been grateful when it did happen. The first time I used them was in 1965.

We were driving through Scotland in our brand new car and it broke down in the middle of nowhere just by a big sign that said 'No stopping. Army Artillery Range.' . Fortunately I remembered seeing an AA phone box about a mile down the road and ran all the way there (could do things like that in those days). They only took 20 minutes to get to us and fixed the problem on about two minutes. We had run out of petrol and the petrol gauge had stuck - in a brand new car .

I thought it was quite funny the other year when I received a very nice leather bound road atlas of GB from them, nicely embossed with 'Golden Anniversary Atlas'. Inside, attached to the book by a nice ribbon, was a four inch square magnifier . They must have thought that I was so old that I would have trouble seeing the details

 

@Jiffy

Can't you make use of them? We were given food waste bins that we asked them to take them away. We now have four of them!!!

Our driveway has two entrances and they put two by each one. The bins are different sizes. The small ones are about 12" square and 18" high (supposed to be the ones to keep in the kitchen) and the others are about 20" square and 30" high, to be put out for the bin men.

The silliest thing about it is that the council that put them there is not our council That council starts eight doors up the road!

They're fantastic for keeping our bird food in.

 

Good morning @Jiffy my friend will the Beige bags match the front gate

 

I always thought it was 'Love is all Around'. (1967 The Troggs )

 

Hi @Jiffy my friend you could always get a tester pot first of "Flat Mat Cow Pat"

 

All the neighbours to one side of us and a couple the other side lost their power yesterday morning . The electricity board (I still use that old term ) tried rerouting the power whilst they struggled to find the fault. Apparently our area is on three phases with the houses being split between all three. So they were able to reroute some of the houses onto one of the other phases. They found a fault in the overhead cables but fixing that didn't put everything right. Nice neighbour has been off the grid now for 29 hours and they're still working on it.

They came along at 5 p.m. yesterday with all their tracing equipment and eventually found what they thought was a large break in the cables under the road. Then they called out the big boys! By 6 p.m. there were eleven vehicles outside, plus a digger, and when we got home from the BBQ there were four vehicles and the digger still there and our driveway was blocked by a trench in the road. Fortunately we have a second entrance (we're posh ).

There have been bright lights (very bright), compressors going and the digger still working all night. I've been providing tea and coffee every two hours since 11 p.m. All gratefully received.

They haven't quite reached up to the part of the road, outside our other entrance, where the water board have marked off the area to be dug up to fix the water leak!! The water leak is not the cause of the problem, so they say, but they think that the high power surge that they pump down the line to help sort out the overhead cable problem may have blown the cable underground They've supplied the neighbour with a mini generator.

Leccy men are back. They abandoned the site at around 5.30 after capping off the gas main which they had cut into!!!! Gas board worked on the break until 11 a.m.

Only six vans here now and all their digging equipment at noon.

'nother leccy update:-

Not good! After having the gas board in to repair where they broke the gas main they've decided that the problem is not where they thought it was.

They've now got to put the road back and then they'll start digging outside our place as they now think it may be there So they'll, then, cut us off.

The problem will then be what to do. Their detector has said where it thinks the fault is and they've marked out the place with paint. So I pointed out to them that is exactly where the water board has marked the road for fixing their leak.

Thinks , do water and electricity mix?

This has now been going on for 29 hours and they're no further forward than they were at the start.