LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

Too true!!! I love my boys though they might treat me as a taxi, b&b, cash machine( sorry I’m all out of notes ) but they’re good kids and I’m proud of them

 

To be fair, all three of our kids were "self starters." The eldest had a very good job and was able to buy his first house, in his early twenties. He now has an apartment in Canary Wharf.
Our daughter when she left home for nursing lived in the nurses' home until she moved in with her boyfriend. He became an IT contractor, they've a five bed home in West London and a holiday home on the South coast.

The youngest did need a bit of help, I helped him do up his first house, a small terrace. "We" partitioned off the double back bedroom into a single one and a bathroom. I made a contribution to the cost. From there he never looked back.He "upgraded" a couple of timers. He and his partner now live in her house and he owns the holiday home they share in Derbyshire.

So as kids, they've cost us very little. Not that we had much to offer them.

 

We had a bit of a mishap this morning while driving to where we were going to start our morning walk.Unfortunatley a female pheasant decided to run out in front of our car to commit suicide,and as there was a van coming towards us doing at least sixty MPH and was level with us at the point of impact Mr Kandy had no option but to hit the bird rather than the van

After the imapact I told Mr Kandy that I thought the bird was still attached to the car as when I looked in the mirror there was no sign of it in the road. When we got to the car park at the start of the walk I got out and went to the front of the car to find the body of Mrs pheasant wedged in the grill deceased.I managed to pull out the bird as Mr Kandy can’t face those sorts of situations.I laid the bird near the hedge so that the local fox can have it for tea.

Mr Kandy came round the front of the car and noticed that the grill where the bird impacted was all broken so once back home after the walk he contacted his insurers.They had to ring us back due to a long queue and fifteen minutes he got the call back.

He was on the phone at least twenty minutes and when he came back into the lounge he was telling me all about the questions he was asked by the phone operator.She wanted to know who was in the car with him at the time,so he had to give her my name and date of birth.She also wanted to know if I was wearing a seat belt at the time and had it been injured at the time of impact. She also wanted to know if there was any child car seats in the car as well.Talk about an inquisition,just for a bloody bird impact

Anyway,whoever is going to do the repairs will contact us to arrange having the mini taken away for repair and to arange a high car for us to use The ironic thing is we are coming up to the first anniversary of buying the mini after my Ka sprung a leak and we had to get rid of it.Just hope our second year of motoring turns out a bit better,oh and I expect we shall be getting those text messages from the solicitors who will want us to put in a personal injury claim unless of course they have stopped those now

 

@Kandy who's going to put that poor bird right

 

Yes, all these questions are because of the culture of neck injury claims.
The close questioning is to ensure a claim "for something not mentioned when cautioned," isn't possible.
The other con is if someone gets a dent in their car they sometimes take the number of the nearest parked car and try to claim against the owner of that one.

Are you going to give the bird a decent burial.....or cook it?

 

@Doghouse Riley

 

As I said in my post I laid the bird on the grass by the hedge so it will feed the local fox.We were gutted as we don’t like running things over and always take evasive action but the van was too close and it was either us hitting the bird or the van when it continued to run across in front of us

We don’t eat Pheasant @Doghouse Riley and I wouldn’t have fancied hanging it up for a few days then gutting and cooking it.Such a shame as it was in full breeding condition but at times they are such stupid birds

We have just had a phone call from the car rental people asking us if the car repairers have contacted us yet and Mr Kandy said no we are still waiting to hear from them.I expect it is going to be a few hundred quids worth to repair the damage and we hope the radiator hasn’t been damaged either.It will probably cost us more in premiums next year as well

 

I think that pheasant is trying it on with a whiplash claim against your insurer

On a more serious note if it was me i would see what the damage was before deciding to claim or not. It may be cheaper to buy a new grill yourself and have it fitted rather than doing it through the insurance. Future premium costs plus the excess etc etc.

Try ebay

 

Hi @Kandy I am sorry to hear about this lot mate..i was just having a joke about the bird plus like you said the fox's will get a good meal.

I would try at first what @WeeTam suggested as there's a lot who go that route first mate and I hope you and your hubby both feel ok?

 

Thanks everyone for your replies and love your humour

Mr Kandy has already started the claim procedure and the hire car people have the car booked to be picked up next week.

Our car insurers even wanted Mr Kandy to video the state of the bird and car and to do an audio commentary be he said to me he thought blow to that (or words to that effect) and after me telling him just now what you have all suggested about getting a grill off of eBay (even though he has never touched eBay) and getting it fitted himself he said Ebay would be the last place he would try.He has also had to go out in the rain and take photos of all sides of the car and he has already sent them photos of the bird and damage done so they can see it is genuine

 

Well the sooner your motor is done @Kandy you'll be more settled but what a performance regarding pic's of the bird...Christ it's dead plain and simple I don't blame him where doing a commentary is concerned he's done enough with informing them and the pic's.

Some folk swear by Ebay on the regards of getting motor parts as you can drop on some good deals with cars being broken but Mr Kandy is going by what he feels right and you can't blame him.

and that it's sorted sooner than you think

 

My suggestions of extreme choices about "burying or eating," wasn't supposed to be taken seriously either. But I can understand that the circumstances of the accident could be upsetting.
From the photo, there appears to be no damage other than to the grill. This should be easy enough to remove. As has been suggested replace it yourself. Check on e-Bay listing the model of your car, there seems to be plenty on there and they don't seem to be that expensive.

 

Hi @Doghouse Riley, Kandy's hubby as already acted with the insurance company.

I know where your coming from though concerning Ebay...as my hubby is with a car forum and they go that route and scrap yards before going and getting new parts

 

No problems @Doghouse Riley I wasn’t offended by your remarks and I know you meant well and as @Gail_68 said Mr Kandy had already started the insurance claim before I mentioned it on here and we have never had any dealings with e-bay and I know that Mr Kandy isn’t interested in it There used to be a car scrap yard not far from us but it closed down over ten years ago and the land has been up for sale for years to put work units on it but so far the only takers have been the travelling community when they broke into the place Xmas 2016 and left in the New Year 2017

I have just let him get on with it as he knows more about cars and dealing with insurance companies so he can have all the stress of it

There was some farm work going on in the open field near to where I placed the pheasant so if the fox doesn’t get to it then one of the farm workers probably will spot it.It won’t go to waste I am sure