On Friday afternoon I got the phone call I had been half-expecting: the insurance company called to say that my car is not worth repairing.
A shame really. With the very few miles I actually need to drive it is hardly worth having a car, but I got used to having this.
Entries Tagged as 'Cars'
un-Seat-ed
May 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Immobile
May 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Life
I finally got round to calling the insurance company after last week’s prang. I had been waiting to hear from the lady who went in to the back of me, but she hasn’t been in touch, so I decided not to wait any longer.
Tags: Cars
Ouch
April 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
My tiny car is now a tiny bit smaller. I set out today to get signatures on my nomination papers for the forthcoming local elections and got rear-ended at some traffic lights.
I have had someone roll into the back of me in traffic queues before, with such slight a impact that there was not even [...]
Tags: Cars
Italian Plastic
November 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
Damn Top Gear and damn Jeremy Clarkson! Until last week I had decided that, in the unlikely event of me winning the lottery, I would rather fancy having as a day-to-day runabout one of those new Fiat 500s. Although it would be hard to resist an Aston Martin, Merc or Jag in the garage I [...]
Car Trouble
November 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Life
What great timing! Buy a new camera on Friday and then on Sunday 500 photogenic veteran cars pass within a few hundred metres of home. Some years I forget that the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run is happening: this year I made sure to catch it.
Car Jamming
October 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Life, Technology
Believe it or, if you must, believe it not but one of the most popular posts I have ever written in the four years or so I have been doing this is this one about hip punishments back in April 2006. It did not attract many comments but overthe years there is hardly a month [...]
Up On The Hill
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Life
It really has all been going on up here on Tolgate Hill. First of all that big fire on Sunday, and then yesterday there was an obstruction in the road as I came home from work. Right opposite where the fire was there was a tow truck blocking half of the road. It was reversed [...]
Driven round the bend
June 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Life, Technology, Work
We had our team meeting today, followed by the mystery activity that had been billed as ‘go-karting with a difference’. The boss didn’t tell us what we were doing until the last minute, when he gave us a map to Mercedes Benz World at Brooklands, and told us that we were going to be shown [...]
Broom, broom
June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Work
There is a bit of speculation about what we are going to be up to next week. The IT department is having its regular team meeting, followed by some sort of non-work team-building activity, but the boss is being a bit coy about the details. He has been threatening us with a team [...]
No show
February 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Politics
I can’t believe that I forgot about the Broadfield Forum tonight. I was all set to go, I even mentioned it to a few work colleagues who I know live in Broadfield, and then just forgot it was on.
Tags: Broadfield Forum·Cars
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