LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2017

So far it has never failed for me. Same with insurances, which I do over the phone. With the phone deals there's not much in the way of benefits that I can use but I'm paying next to nothing anyway.

With the car insurances I've always got them to well below the renewal quotes (not always with the same company) and, up to now, it has reduced each year for the last eight years. I can't see it getting any lower so I shall have to fight to keep it the same. My S80T costs just over £200, fully comp, no claims protection, a courtesy car if off the road for a claim and only £100 excess.

 

I've just renewed my Anytime Calls contract with BT and negotiated the first three months free.

Also spoke to them (too early to actual do the deal) about renewal of Line Rental Saver and they've offered to upgrade me to Infinity (fibre) for £1.50 per month.

 

That's the trouble with these new fangled things

 

The main problem is that the fibre doesn't come to the house. It goes from the exchange to the 'box' in the village - and I don't live in the village. The engineers told me that the ADSL copper still runs from the box to my house.

 

And that is the real problem which the companies promising "super fast" broadband seem to fail to mention when touting an improvement. There are millions of houses, including mine, that won't gain any extra broadband speed because the last link into the house is copper wired. I wonder why they fail to mention that in their advertisements promising higher speeds

 

It should improve our speed to a certain extent as they have brought the fibre 85% closer to our house but it's the last mile or so that's the problem. There's no cable in this area either.

Having said all that, I wouldn't dream of streaming content so it won't matter a lot to us.

 

This is a little self-moan

I watched Alan Davies on TV last night (midnight to 1.40 a.m.) and he was doing a one man show.

Most of his non-stop stand up was moaning and comparing the way things used to be compared to nowadays. I thought it was very good, but I lived through the times he was referring to.

I thought his delivery was excellent and the content funny - so why am I moaning?

It's because I can't remember much of what he said so can't tell Mrs Shiney!

He did the typical things such as, when we were young there was only one telephone in the house (if you were lucky and could afford it) but it was always in the hall. If you were posh you had a telephone table and if you were posher still you had a seat next to it. In the winter you needed to take a blanket with you because it was always freezing in the hall. Phone calls were much more expensive before 6 p.m.

He reminisced about scraping ice off the inside of windows and, totally unrelated, about the ignorance about sexual matters.

Can't remember much more