Unlucky birth dates...

Check out this link, apparently your driving skills are based on your date of birth

http://www.onlyinsurance.com/Car-Insurance-News/12752817-Unlucky-birth-dates-could-affect-your-car-insurance.aspx

I drive fast (hence my 3 points) and was born in June but I am a cautious and havent had any accidents....just that people have hot me so it wasn't my fault.

Gossip Girl

This is going to be a change from my usual type of blog…not that there is one.
But I love Gossip Girl, it rocks. I don’t think any other TV programme has got me this excited…except for Making The Band, ANTM, Prison Break, Real World, One Tree Hill…okay well this is different!
Gossip Girl just goes to show you don’t need to be on the west coast to have a glamorous show. Forget the OC, Gossip Girl is where it’s at.
Imagine walking down the Upper Eastside and being in GG’s radar. Imagine going to a high school where everyone gets a text update on the latest goss. Where the ins and outs of going to an American high school could be so interested.

You know you love me XOXO

Credit crunch

With all this talk of a recession and what not, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to have a firm hold of the purse strings and tighten them. I don’t mean we should all turn Scrooge and let the recession affect our appearance. Never that. But it’s time to limit the caramel macchiatos and mochas that I have become accustomed to and time to use the dreaded work kettle and make my coffee. I mean there has been a jar of Kenco in my drawer for the past month and the amount of times I’ve used it I could count on one hand. It’s funny how I can mange to find myself standing in a queue in Starbucks- leave the office- but can’t go to the kitchen to make a coffee. Which is more cost-effective and probably takes up less time and I could put as much coffee as I want! Making it stronger and I’ll be able to get through the day that little bit more with extra coffee.
The credit crunch also brings me to my next point. Finding a more cost-effective way of getting to work. I thought about walking one stop so I could save £1 if I do it both in the morning and after work (I refuse to buy a monthly pass, its cheaper for me to PAYG). But let’s be realistic after a night out or in, will I really get up out of bed that bit earlier? Nah, thought not. But on the way back from work that is an option, I could even pop in to Tesco or Iceland on the way home. I also thought about getting a moped. My brother reckons his friend spends £10 a week on petrol for his moped. I really could see myself whizzing down the A40 in a baby pink moped. But then I realised I will be paying for two insurance policies. When you compare car insurance to bike insurance premiums, bikes probably work out cheaper. So I would be saving money, but I thought about winter. I can barely sand outside for too long when it’s cold let alone drive in the cold. And what about when it’s raining? My hair?!?!
So as much as in theory a bike would be best for me, I would really need the choice of both car and bike, and the words credit crunch come to mind and forking out for two insurance polices really isn’t the one.

That my friends was my thought for the day okay well maybe just morning. Monday morning and I am thinking about cruising to work in my moped to save time and money. Well back to the grind for me.

Random calls!

A few months back I may have blogged about me having Car Insurance issues. I had serious problems and trust me it wasn’t the one!
Anywho, much to surprise I received a phonecall on Wednesday and due to me being at work I couldn’t answer it. The person left a message- which is a bit odd for an 0800 phone number. I listened to my voicemail and I was told to call back. Lunch time came and went and I really couldn’t be bothered to give them a call back. So today the company called back and I decided this random number really needs to stop ringing off my phone. I called back, and the person kindly informed the person I was after was on another call. I told him, its either now or never, I am sick of this number harassing me. Okay harassing is a very strong word. But you get the gist. So the man on the line told me it was a personal injury company called Claims something or another said my insurance company *coughKwikFitcough* passed on my details. Okay, stop. Right. There. Kwik Fit passed on MY details? How dare they? I feel validated, what else are they passing on. So where was I? Kwik Fit passed on my details stating that I had an accident. Ummm did I? No what had happened was….my car got hit, I wasn’t in it. So what Kwik Fit were thinking that day I don’t know. Either way, I was so annoyed that my details were passed on. There is only one time I used a personal injury company and to this day I stand by them and say that’s the only one I would use. So naff off all you other companies. And as for Kwik Fit don’t pass my details. When I have time I may just give them a call to have a rant. Don’t you just love call centres?

I just don’t get why Kwik Fit would think people can put in accident claims when they weren’t in the car? Ahhh!!

Carnival 2008

Why did I bother? The day was going well up until it came time to go home and the Po-po decided they were gonna barricade us in and treat us like criminals. People were throwing bottles so the Police decided they were going to cordone off the road and not let anyone go anywhere. Because surely this would calm them down right? Not at all. People got even more frustrated and began throwing even more bottles. People were sticking to the pavement and trying to get out of the way and not get hit by bottles. I kindly *in my nicest voice ever* asked an officer if we could just get through to a slip road and hide there because we didn’t want to get hit. His response? No. if he lets a few of us in everyone will want to go to the side road. Isn’t this a better option? Gradually let people go into the side road to avoid getting bottled. I made it obvious I would be claiming compensation if a bottle touched me. The crowd were trying to get through and out of harms way but the Police pushed everyone in the direction of the bottles. It was horrible. People screaming and clinging on to each other. Myself and my friend somehow managed to squeeze though and only made it to another row of Police officers, at this point we had to young girls tagging along with us. Poor things probably their first trip out alone and to be experiencing something that I myself- in my twenties- had never experienced. One of the girls rang her mum to let her know she was okay. Which I thought was sweet, you know how mothers worry.

In the middle of the roads there were still floats and buses. I asked one of the buses if they would let us on. No chivalry is obviously dead because they refused to let us on. Don’t worry about us, we’ll just get hit in the face with a bottle.

In the link below at the beginning there is one boy throwing the majority of the bottles- did he really think he was going to get away with it? The Police- who I thought would have just ran up to him and beat him- decided to use one of the floats as a decoy, they asked it to drive under the bridge in Grove and hid behind it and ran out on the boy. You know he got it at the station, cos the way they carried him off (all 15 of them) he was all crumpled up. We eventually got on to a side road and went the long way round and managed to get back on to the road we were on- this took forever and a day I thought we had walked to the other side of London at this point.

Yet again the Police trying to enforce their authority. Apparently they were picking on people and arrested them for no reason. I don’t mid stop and search- by al means do it especially in a vicinity where I know I am going but there is such thing as harassment. I read in one of those free papers that they were making racist comments too. Hmmmm. The officers were northerners and didn’t really know how to talk to Londoners, rather than show compassion to the ones that weren’t doing anything wrong- such as myself- they were rude, aggressive and hostile. The Police have gone down even further in my book.

Have a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7581556.stm

David Cameron's bike stolen..

Why you need bike insurance!
OMG, have just read this story about David Cameron's bike being stolen (BBC London) from Portobello Road so not far from me, yikes!
Conservative leader David Cameron says his bicycle was stolen after he left it locked outside a supermarket while he shopped near his home in west London. He was at a Tesco branch on Portobello Road when the bike - which he joked was "an old friend" - disappeared.
"Someone must have picked it up and walked off with it", he said.
"If anyone has seen this bicycle, I would like it back," he added. "I've eeported it online... but I'm not holding my breath."
Mr Cameron said he had been "picking up a few bits of salad" when the theft occurred at about 1800 BST on Wednesday.
His spokeswoman added the Tory leader was "annoyed" and "pretty hacked off" at what had happened.
A spokesman for Tesco would not go into details about the theft.
"Although we are very sorry to hear about David Cameron's misfortune, we cannot comment on incidents which happen outside our stores," he said.
Tom Bogdanovich of the London Cycling Campaign said he hoped the theft would not discourage Mr Cameron from using his bike.
The case highlighted the need for a greater number of secure cycle stands in London, he added.
Mr Cameron and his bike have had a high profile since he became Conservative leader three years ago.
His entire journey by bike to the House of Commons after becoming leader was broadcast live, filmed from above by news helicopters.
His bicycle was back in the news the next year as he faced Labour attacks on his green credentials after it was revealed that an official car followed him carrying his briefcase.
And in March Mr Cameron apologised after the Daily Mirror photographed him on his bike ignoring red lights and cycling the wrong way up a one-way street.

Anne Darwin sentenced

Has anyone read the story about the canoeist and his wife? Just read on BBC London that they've been sentenced to 6 years and 3 months and 6 years and 6 months.

Now not that they killed anyone but I thought that they would have been sentenced to longer, that was a large scale deception!

So on that note....Anyone looking for life insurance?