Archive for February, 2011
Feb 14th by Ian under Miscellaneous
Well here is the update from my previous post on buyer beware on buying car insurance. Here’s the summary, did not receive new proposal one month before renewal date, did not realise we had automatic renewal, did not know we had re insured a car we nearly had sold until I noticed the bank statement, had a phone barney, followed up by diatribe letters (from me) So had £269 taken from my account and was given back £131 for the pleasure of insuring a car for 14 days, or less depending on the date the insurance was cancelled.
I have …
Feb 13th by Ian under Bird Watching
Sunday 13th February, my first ever tree sparrow and in my garden. I knew there were tree sparrows in some village gardens because a Fife countryside ranger told me. But here it was 5 metres from my kitchen window, not only that but I caught a glimpse of what I considered was a brambling feeding on the sunflower seeds with the fighting greenfinches and not so rowdy chaffinches. I waited for a reappearance of the tree sparrow after pointing it out to my wife, who spends much more time than I looking out the window ! This gave me time …