What I did today

[andrewducker]

In work at 8am to prepare for a 9am meeting, which went quite well, and produced some ideas for a project I'm working on.

Left early as I had a dentist appointment just after midday for a slightly chipped tooth*. It lasted ten minutes as the dentist just patched it. Then I went home, kept Julie company while she packed, prepared a few things for the holidays, made a phone call to the Edinburgh Registrry Office to talk about weddings, and made a phone call to my insurers which saved use £210.

And then we hopped onto a bus into town, switched to an airport bus, and then had dinner together at the airport as we arrived with an hour to spare before Julie had to head through security.

Then I got the bus back into town, nearly falling asleep on the way, switched to the bus home, popped into lizzie_and_ari's flat, and picked up the keyboard that I had lent to marrog aaaages ago***.

And then home, where I've fallen over for an hour, but must now go and pack for my own Christmas flights, as well as throwing out the rubbish and making sure there's nothing lurking in the fridge to evolve over the week we're gone.

And then bed, where I will no doubt sleep exceptionally well.

*Probably due to stress-induced teeth-grinding. I am _so_ glad it's almost Christmas.
**They were trying to charge us £485 for home insurance. I phoned a competitor, got a quote for £250, phoned them up and said I was quite happy to shop around, and got a quote from them for £270. I'm perfectly happy for pay the extra £20 for continuity of service, in case anything goes wrong again with the damp. Motto: make the call, you never know what it might save you.
***What with marrog and erindubitably having left for Dundee I suddenly found myself with a keyboard, and my copies of Ticket To Ride and Robo Rally back. We need more shelves.

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> **They were trying to charge us £485 for home insurance. I phoned a competitor, got a quote for £250

So... what did you say when they asked you about your flat's construction, and what did they say about the (I assume) flat roof?

[andrewducker]

I said "I'm on the ground floor, I don't know what the roof is like."

And when they asked about the construction I said "brick", as I've seen what it's like under the plaster (it's brick).

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

> I said "I'm on the ground floor, I don't know what the roof is like."

They let you get away with that? Wow. I vaguely remember when I tried that tack it didn't go down well.

[andrewducker]

I was a little worried about it.

I did it on the phone, by the way. Because I wasn't sure how to fill out the quote online, and if I phoned someone and then was honest with them then they could fill it in and be responsible for translating "I dunno" into the form honestly :->

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how this kind of thing is entirely meant to work. When I got contents insurance for a rented flat just after moving in, they asked me how old the building was. How on earth would I know, why would I know, and how would I be able to find out whilst on the phone to them, unless I happened to live in a building with the date of construction marked on the outside that I had noticed?

[andrewducker]

Tell me about it!

I said "I dunno, I guess sometime in the 30's, but I'm not sure."

And why on earth would it matter for contents insurance?

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Because ghosts

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

ROBO RALLY!