Twelve day after Christmas and all the dekkies are
safely stashed away. Mum always used to say that they had to be down today.
Simply put it is bad luck not to. I have no idea why, but I’m not one to take
chances.
I thought it was a pretty dull day before I looked
through the bedroom curtain. And I was right. Fog, fog and more fog, and it has
hung around all day. So no nice view from the window. I dare say a few travel
plans will have been disrupted.
Does anything make you go grrrrrrrrrrrrrr?
Dropped consonants make me cringe. What do I mean?
Well wa’s wrong wif this senence?
Ain’ nuffink wrong wif i’ is vere?
You have to say it as it is written to get the idea.
We hear such poor grammar and not just from kids
either. I don’t know if it’s just that we are here in London, but if an adult
spoke like that back in NZ I think they would be looked at rather oddly. What
do you think?
We heard today about the neighbour of one of The Man’s
friends. She was woken in the see small hours of the morning by a noise and
there in her bedroom were a couple of burglars. She did the right thing and
screamed and they scarpered. They’d broken in through a window. Initially it
was thought that they had gotten away with her TV and car keys as well as her phones
and TV remotes. After the police had been, no fingerprints were found, the car
keys were located abandoned in the garden as was the TV.
It is awful to have your home invaded like that; I am
so pleased that we live on an upper floor.
Years ago, back in NZ, I remember coming home for lunch
one day and discovering that our back door had been kicked in. with my heart
pounding I explored the house hoping that here was no one in there. It made me feel really sick in my stomach. We
had been burgled by the druggies who lived next door. They’d used a large rug
from our bed to carry away our TV, clothing, and a bit of jewellery. Never saw
any of it again.
The difference between there and here in the UK is that
if you make an insurance claim here it increases your premiums as well as long
your no claims status. It is no wonder that a lot of folks choose not to claim.
Well the way the insurance companies make money is by people NOT claiming.
One of the young lads who works with The Man contacted his
insurance company to find out if it was worth making a claim for the damage to
his wing mirror caused by another vehicle. He decided not to make a claim but
the insurance upped his premiums anyway. How wrong is that!
There really is a ‘Rip off Britain’ mentality here.
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