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Had my renewal price from RAC Breakdown come through. they wanted £96 for the forthcoming year.

I told them I'll give them £60. and they said ok :)

I noticed Green Flag do a risk assessment type of quote now for breakdown.

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You got ripped off, I get my RAC roadside, recovery, at home for £48 of Tesco club card vouchers, so basically I get it for free.

The normal RAC price for that is £113.

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As long he is happy with the price. It doesn't hurt to call and try to negotiate with them. Although it does make you wonder how they can justify the higher premium if they let you negotiate it down a bit.

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Like any company they try it on with customers who don't look for better deals. Loyalty doesn't pay.:(

I just moved my car insurance and from a renewal premium that had leapt to £385 yet I put my details in on their website and it came back with under £200. Lying, cheating you know whats.:mad:

I got insured on the same terms for £98 with a £20 shopping voucher thrown in from the AA.:)

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Yes, it seems they bank on customers being either lazy or stupid to not change providers. A lot of people I know actually think it involves a lot of work to change. 1 phone call, that's all.

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My nephew (aged 28) and his lady friend (who owned the car) walked away from a nasty crash - so happy they only have minor bumps and bruises; could have been so much worse....

They were on their way to catch the Holyhead ferry today when the accident happened - they spun out at 60 mph on the motorway followed by a trip over a verge and then 20 meters down a ditch and other than a fully ruined front end the driver compartment was untouched.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...7&d=1428078969

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Very lucky indeed :tu: glad they're ok!

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l am glad they are okay Hugh.:tu:

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I'm ready.

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Glad everybody is OK Hugh. Tribute to modern car design.

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Lucky escape Hugh, glad they're okay

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So glad they are ok, Looks Scarry

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As part of my subscription to the Times, I got a 12 month free pass to a genealogy site. In 90 minutes of searching, I have been able to trace back to my Nan's grandparents, which makes that my great great grandparents. Unfortunately I have hit a wall there, with no further information to go on.

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Ask some idiot in a supermarket where the Hot cross buns are, only for him to say "you do know they are seasonal":erm:

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He's right though.

and Xmas has been and gone.

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What are you stuck on? Missing on census or can't find marriage lines? Census transcription errors are your worst enemy btw.

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Just got the name of her grandparents but no further information, so cannot find their parents and so on. I'm wondering if birth certs back in the 1800's had info like mum's name, etc. like today's do.

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Birth certificates did yes but the GRO index did not actually record the mothers maiden name until 1911 which can make finding the right certificate difficult in some cases.

Some of the paid sites have certain collections of church records available in fact so do some free sites, just depends which area you are looking at and if they've been digitised at some point unless you want to trundle off down to the local records office and look directly at the microfilms. Church marriage and baptism books are actually more useful than the GRO records in many cases.

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Spoke to Dad last and he is seeming more like his old self as he is even talking about a holiday to America now.:)

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Bet that was music to ears den, so glad your Dad is feeling better.

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Great news :tu:

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Peter, thanks for that. Definitely think I might do a bit more on this, interested to know more about my family. Done a bit more on my Grandad's side of the family and traced back a while to find there is some Jewish blood in the family!

den, glad he seems to be improving. A holiday sounds like an excellent idea.

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Very nice :)

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Spending time with my wee mum, even though Alzheimer's has taken her memories and changed her personality. I love her and miss the way she was but just happy to spend time with her.

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Sorry to hear about your Mum Stephen as its terrible how Alzheimer's can strike loved ones down and the only thing l can say is remember her for how she once was and all the wonderful memories that you had with her before it sadly struck her down.

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Good news Den, ;)

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She will still be deleted to see you Stephen, ;)

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Well, this research has taken me places I never thought I would go. So far, I have found out there is German Jewish blood in the family and plenty of relations in Yorkshire, a county I have no time for as a Lancastrian by birth. Hoping to Hell I don't find I am related to a former politician or even PM.

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Maybe some Scottish bloodline Marc ;)

:D

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Researching Scottish ancestors can be a cakewalk to a certain point as the actual vital record certificates are all available online. No messing about applying for certificates from GRO/GRONI or even worse the Irish GRO in Roscommon who still seem to be stuck in the 1980s.

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Its a awful illness, one thing you can try is music/films/TV from her past, even food & sweets, may help trigger memories.

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There is some Scottish blood way back in the family, I think it is around the 1700's though. There is also Viking blood in the family, Irish blood and apparently VERY diluted French blood as well. Let's face it, if I was a dog I would be a damn mongrel.

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Nothing wrong with being a mongrel WOOF WOOF.;)

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Now found a relative who was born in Mayfair, London. Really enjoying this I am.

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:)

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She loves music and will happily sing along to old songs as she still remembers the words. Also loves the film Mamma Mia due to the ABBA music.

Started now to dance in a child like way whenever she hears any music at all, lol. So cute sometimes.

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Attachment says it all really. Might have no voice, but damn have I missed these blue skies this year.

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We had the sunniest winter on record so I don't think there was any lack of blue sky.;)

Or maybe its just very dull in Stevenage?:D

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We have had a couple of clear days, unfortunately still freezing cold. I was able to go out shopping without wearing a coat today for the first time since last October.

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Not down here as its been cloudy and chilly through Winter and thus throughout the spring so far.

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I managed to see my GP today. Yay, it was extremely hard to get an appointment mind you. Initially I was told there wasn't any for at least a month.

Then they looked at my records lol ;)

And I got seen in two hours.

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l am glad you got seen dilli as for them to say you might have to wait a month to start with is frankly ridiculous in 2015.

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I'm sunburned.
2 days of sun and I'm all red.

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That's a happy thought?:confused:

Sun this time of year is as strong as in September so slap on that sun screen unless you have skin that doesn't burn easilly. ( Like me :))

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Just returned from a period of NHS 'hospitality' and given the circumstances I think they did a bloody good job, so well done to those who've poked, probed, prodded and pricked me endlessly for the last week or so. :clap:

I've yet to see the local quack but apparently I've been suffering a combination of the effects of a severely inflamed 'glandus cynicus' and acute 'imbibus excessus' whatever that means... :shrug:

:D

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l hope you get better soon Osem as its never nice being in hospital.

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Feeling much better thanks Den.

If they made it nice being in hospital we'd all want to stay there wouldn't we... lol

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Glad you're doing ok - and back home? :)

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Yes back home now Dilli thanks - just having a break from the garden work.

Not sure I could have survived another night on a hospital bed but luckily I was in a nice shiny hospital and my bed was next to a window with the most lovely view across a park and the major features of the London skyline. Fresh air and natural light are such precious things, I wish our hospitals were better exposed to them.

Anyway I've been catching up with site content and was wondering whether to start a thread on the frequency of rhomboids in nature, courgettes or possibly old toasters which randomly turn themselves on/off. Maybe I'll set up a poll... :D

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A nice view certainly helps - this was mine at papworth before the op. :)

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I have my laptop back. So happy to get rid of the Brick. :)

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I never thought to take a piccie of my view but I could see as far west (on the horizon) as the City including the Shard, then Canary Wharf and as far east (identifiably) as the Dartford Crossing.

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My happy thought, the visit from social services seemed to go ok. Aside from suggesting it may be better for us if Natalie wasn't working.

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That wasn't you I read about on the Mail site last night? Bloke told he would get more help financially if his wife left work and went onto benefits.

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Not if it was on the Mail nope, but we most likely would be better off financially if she did give up work.

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Great news then, Back to normal ;)

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I think Natalie enjoys sticking me with needles far too much ;) :)

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You should see me now.
I'm even redder!

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You're going to vote Socialist Worker? :shocked:

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Cuddling up on the couch with my lovely dog, in perfect peace and quiet with a mug of tea and a good book.
Total bliss :)

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The trouble is as we all know weenie is the peace and quiet never lasts.

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Saturday morning shopping done at Lidl and back home just before the rain sets in.:)

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The rain went through our part of the world early this morning.:waving::Sun::Sun:

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Getting it now in Stevenage. I hate you both for having decent weather.

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Well the rain's barrelled through and the sun's just coming out. :)

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Sadly it does not den.

Got some good news today in the post. We claimed PPI that we took out for mortgage protection and got the decision in today so that was an unexpected little windfall :D tbh I didn't think we would get it anything.

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Phew! :tu:

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That's excellent news weenie.

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Been playing goat simulator - now that has cheered me up no end :)

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Got my Nan's birthday treat booked today, a helicopter ride over Epping Forest. They did do it from Hatfield House, but cannot be booked until end of August so decided on Epping instead. Should be nice, hopefully nice weather on May 31.

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Been sat outside much of the day chilling in my deckchair that Natalie bought me from Ikea :)

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Apparently Wednesday you might need your suncream dilli.

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Exellent :) - and it's another week off hospital this week. Which is just as well as it looks like it's all going to kick off again next week.

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Excellent news dilli, nice to have some time away from hospital and getting to enjoy the warm weather. Make the most of it, apparently April May and June are going to be boiling, temps in the 30's apparently and then July and August will be cold and wet. Global warming, don't you just love it?

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I'll be inside July - August I Should think ;)

I must admit I do have difficulty in doing nothing though!

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Excellent Weenie ;)

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Yes the Met Office do have a habit of predicted barbecue summers but the only problem sometimes is its September before people have a chance to use it.;)

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Sea mist that has been here all yesterday and this morning seems to be rolling away. Maybe we're going to get some of that warm sunshine they keep promising.

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We had the mist earlier old bean but now we are bathed in wall to wall sunshine in deepest Devon.:Sun::Sun::Sun:

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Satellite picture at the met office site shows a small mist patch just offshore unlike yesterday when the whole English channel was socked in.

Nice and sunny at the moment, just got a batch of laundry out to dry despite the leaky washing machine.:)

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Another lovely day here - beautiful warm sun and blue sky. Just off for a walk with the missus.

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Has the lady of the family got you on a lead dear chap.;)

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Not half Den. Every so often I get a treat for good behaviour and clearing up my own mess... :D

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At last! Shorts and T-Shirt weather. :Sun:

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Sadly I have not been fortunate enough to see any sunshine only clouds and patches of rain. The bonus to that is the plasterer could do our kitchen today as he does his indoor work in bad weather and rough casting when the weather is good. So maybe not so sad that the weather is not so good after all. Every cloud has a silver lining :)

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Been able to get back to the 1830's in my family tree. Really got the bit between my teeth now with this. Parish records next I think.

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Yes once you start its very addictive Mark.

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I traced my Family Tree back to Africa, I think some of them are still living on it;)

Now on the lookout for some A3 paper to put it onto. Found one relation who was a domestic help for a general surgeon in the Royal Navy.

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Shaping up to be a really nice day, 19C and rising, wall to wall sunshine.:Sun:

Going to shut down the PC and go and get some rays.:)

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Sun is out here but still too cold to sit out in the garden.

You enjoy the rays heero with maybe a nice glass :)

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Just found another relation, a colour sergeant in the Edinburgh Militia back in the 1880's!

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Just e-mailed a Ms Kitty Wan at one of my clients. Was hard to resist starting "Hello Kitty" :D

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LOL

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Real nice day here. I think it has to last till Friday

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Yes l looked at the forecast earlier and yippeeeee it has forecast good sunny weather down here as well until Friday nash.:Sun::Sun::cleader::cleader:

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Enjoy it Den. We might go away somewhere for the day, for a change

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Osem Jnr has completed a full house of 'firsts' in his final assessment in this section of his degree course - the only student out of 60 to do so. Yes, I've congratulated him but also made the point that things will get harder and he still needs to step up a gear or two... :)

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Well done to him, and to you for all the support for him.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2015/04/5.gif Osem Jnr.

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@ Hugh & Weenie - Cheers guys. :)