The good morning thread

jasst

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Fool that put down the floors in the extension here, glued and screwed the chipboard.
When I did need to lift some I thought great it’s screwed down, then it all got very messy and time consuming :mad:
I was always told that that is the correct way to do it to avoid creaky floors.
 

jasst

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We have Dorset Knobs here, as a local speciality. There is even the famous Knob throwing competition (similar to how Gloucestershire has its cheese chasing event). But our Knobs are baked, rather than farmed.
Started in my local village 2 miles away.
 

Oneball

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And another townie moving to the country and complaining about the sounds of country life! ;):lol2:

My parents live pretty much in the middle of nowhere, noisiest place in the world. If it’s not the sheep it’s the bloody birds tweeting at 4am. Give me a nice traffic hum any day!


We have Dorset Knobs here, as a local speciality. There is even the famous Knob throwing competition (similar to how Gloucestershire has its cheese chasing event). But our Knobs are baked, rather than farmed.

glowing balls in Wigan

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Put my bridge replacement up today; took all day and as it started raining about 1pm I hardly noticed it at first but it got steadily heavier, in the end by the time I got loaded up with the rubbish and old ropes, I drove home and had a shower to get dry!!!

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MarkMas

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Morning all. No reason to be up this early, but there it is.

Spent an excellent day yesterday sorting out my desk and re-running all the cables.
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Andyk

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Oh and I nearly forgot as I need to get this off my chest. Bloody, fecking, cheating, swindling, knob jockeys that are car insurance companies.......Had my renewal through yesterday by email. Now I claimed in 2019 so my no claims dropped to 3 years and up went my premium.
2020 premium was £430 for me Mercedes doing 22k a year. So with another years no claims bonus this year was looking forward to seeing this go down.....not a fecking chance....This years premium £578....WHAT THE FECK.

Went on line put my details in and cheapest quite £341 so £237 cheaper........but.... The cheapest quote was from my insurance company....Robbing b4astards. I notice they also have an auto renewal which I would worry about if it was someone like my be parents who are getting on in life and may no pick up in this and end up paying more than they should. They will be getting a call today and I feel they deserve a pull through with a Christmas tree. Feckers.... Rant over.
 

CatmanV2

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Morning all.

@Andyk similar with the Continental. All the online quotes were cheaper than the Jaaaaaaag. Went to my insco, Sheila's Wheels and they wanted £160 a year more (on a £400 pa premium)

So off to confused.com where I got a quote down to about £350. From e-sure. Who's brands include Sheila's wheels.

And, of course, the new quote from SW was cheaper than the changed one. sigh

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Simon1963

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Oh and I nearly forgot as I need to get this off my chest. Bloody, fecking, cheating, swindling, knob jockeys that are car insurance companies.......Had my renewal through yesterday by email. Now I claimed in 2019 so my no claims dropped to 3 years and up went my premium.
2020 premium was £430 for me Mercedes doing 22k a year. So with another years no claims bonus this year was looking forward to seeing this go down.....not a fecking chance....This years premium £578....WHAT THE FECK.

Went on line put my details in and cheapest quite £341 so £237 cheaper........but.... The cheapest quote was from my insurance company....Robbing b4astards. I notice they also have an auto renewal which I would worry about if it was someone like my be parents who are getting on in life and may no pick up in this and end up paying more than they should. They will be getting a call today and I feel they deserve a pull through with a Christmas tree. Feckers.... Rant over.
Exactly the same happened to me last year with swinton. Was paying £600 ish and my renewal was around £1100. Went online and they where quoting around £450 with the cheapest at £350 with Churchill. When I phoned them up they said they would look and see if they could match the Churchill quote. My response was don’t bother even if it’s less than Churchill you have tried to blatantly rip me off. Like you say Andy how many people just auto renew and get ripped off. Boils my pi55 it does.
 

zagatoes30

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Morning all, it is that day today but that's for another thread

@Andyk, insurance companies take the p155, they ask for loyalty and then shaft you at renewal time but believe me quotes in the UK are substantially cheaper than over here so don't complain too loud. I have to finalise the classic insurances today after taking ages to find one that will do agreed value.