A Thousand Million Thousand Other Things: February 2012

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Blimey Guv'nor, its the Great London Skyline

Maybe I am being rude, but the mish mash of spikes and spokes as I look out across the London skyline makes me think of the dust mounds of Little Dorritt....

2 new sites "The Shard" - yet another prestige building centre left, and the Olympic Stadium, far left...
Is that The Eye, The Umbrella, or the Bike Frame?
And somehow the stadium looks like a debtors prison.....

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Location:Primrose Hill, London

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Oops - Still Broke (17th Feb 2012)

Lift at Manchester Airport...
... Yes, the same 1...

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Location:Sunbank Ln,Altrincham,United Kingdom

Saturday, February 18, 2012

They got me...

and I thought I was sick of these ads...

Best deal was Marks & Spencers actually!!
Seriously, now the supermarkets are doing insurance, is this good or bad?

Seriously though, are we going to get a sensible review of the insurance companies unbridled power over the motorist?

RAC report of govt review of car insurance
Manchester's key 103 radio report
Guardian's report

I truly hope so - haven't you noticed over the years how searches for insurance have started to include more and more 'granular' details for their information - e.g.

annual mileage has been broken into segments by the thousand
no claims used to be up to 5, now its by year from 1 to 9, 15, more depending on the insurance company - how can you provide evidence for over so many years when the insurance companies didn't record that many years pin the past?
the excess is no broken into voluntary, compulsory, for windscreen, some other things I didn't catch
phone quotes force you to listen to all the extras, even when you specifically say no extras.

And the cost now.... a 13 year old 2.0litre car with alarm and immobiliser, with a driver who had a license for over 20 years, no claims, no points, over £1100....?!?

So where is the money coming from for so many new drivers buying expensive cars round where I live?

I mean, they must be new...

Friday, February 10, 2012

Back to basics

Train from Manchester airport to Lime St Liverpool reminds me of the really basic transit with frame seats bolted into the floor. Guess I won't be charging my laptop then...