Got my renewal policy today and as expected it had gone up, a bit eye watering to find the new price hike as almost 50% above last years price.

Went back on Moneysupermarket and got an almost identical policy for £268...only £14 more than I paid to AA last year.
Rang the AA to cancel my renewal policy and got the "Well lets see if we can get a better price for you" and I told them not to bother, if they can reduce the quote why wasn't I sent THAT quote instead?

We'll see how good THIS company is.

That Angelique Foster she's lost as well for post as P.C.C. that's gone to a Labour candidate as well, over 25,000 more votes.

Sent off a letter to D.T. for the letters page about a month ago, I'd given up on it till I saw it had been printed in this last issue.

Won't make an 'aporth of difference but I got it off my chest.

Another letter printed in this weeks D.T. about the roads, two for two I'm doing well....besides it keeps me out of mischief!

To digress a moment, my daughter called into the new Smythes toy store the other day, very nice store too and after she had paid for her purchases it turns out she couldn't find the exit!! she had to ask one of the staff who said something along the lines of " Your not the first...it's not very well signposted is it" and directed her to the exit.

So the upshot is...Don't try shoplifting in this store you'll never get out.

So tomorrow's the big day, if what I've read about Mr. Bradley is anywhere near the truth I shouldn't think he'll earn enough votes to retain his deposit...still stranger things happen in politics, there is talk of trying to get Boris to come back and that wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Been looking on line to maybe getting a new cooker, when we had this one installed we paid about £70 for installation, that's now risen to £115. Looking round for repairers it would cost at least that much, maybe more, to have it repaired they've got you either way.
£115 just to have someone stick a gas pipe onto a bayonet fitting and plugging in the electric socket for the ignition, daylight robbery. Of course I could set it up myself but I'd run the risk of the cooker turning out to be faulty, apart from it possibly being dangerous, it could null the warranty.

Adding insult to injury the washing machine threw a seven yesterday, more expense!
Looking in on Currys the charge for installation is far less than for the cooker {about £30}
They say things happen in three's, wonder what's next?

We haven't been abroad since 2019 and we haven't missed it. It would take something spectacular, like a lottery win, to get us to go, we'll stick with Blighty for now.

Using this post..........
It's Grand National weekend coming up on the 13th, every year there's an outcry due to the number of horses dying, especially in just that one race {4 last year} and every year their voices are drowned out and the carnage continues.
All because there's far too much money to be made to worry about a few horses, there must be tens of millions of pounds bet on that one race so a few do- gooders bellyaching about dead horses will not stop the "fun". 

I think I mentioned on an earlier post about Aintree, something to do with ambulances covering at the track over Grand National weekend when "genuine" patients dial 999 and can't get an ambulance to attend 'cos they are too busy rubbing cream on jockey's sore backsides.
Very few things I get on my high horse for {excuse the pun} but horse racing makes me seethe.

I put horse racing, in any form in the same category I would put bullfighting