Thursday Blues

 

Hello everyone,

At last I have time to make a proper entry.  I`ve been a bit busy the last couple of days but I`ve made here it in the end.  Poor Kerry has had an awful day today.  She had an appointment to take her car for an Insurance assessment and they told her that it would most likely be written off by the company.  Her car is only five years old and despite having a fully comp. insurance they SAY it will cost more to repair than the market value.  The assessor told her that the suspension had gone and had probably been about to go just before the accident and that was why the company wouldn`t pay her claim.  Jim was furious as he didn`t think there was anything wrong with the suspension so he asked our friend S, who is our mechanic, to check it out.  He drove it and said there was nothing wrong whatsoever with it and that is was perfectly roadworthy.  Jim then went back to the garage and told them that he`d had the car seen by another mechanic, this was when the assessor had a change of heart.  He said he wasn`t certain it was the suspension but even so the new door panels would cost more than the market value of the car...hmm, he didn`t say THAT to Kerry!  Anyway, she will have to buy another car, something she could have done without at the moment and she is not a happy bunny I can tell you, and who would blame her?  What annoys me is that we pay so much for our car insurance and it somehow doesn`t seem worth it if they won`t cover someone who had an accident doing 5 miles per hour in a car park.  I always thought insurance was there to keep us on the road, it seems more like the other way round!

         

Jim and I have been out in the garden working this afternoon.  I dug up a clump of chives and planted them in a large terracotta pot.  My little herb garden is now non-existant with them all in pots having outgrown the little plot outside the back door, I`ve moved them all to the bottom of the garden by Jim`s tool shed because I don`t have the room at this end anymore.  I`ll miss the aroma of mint, chives and thyme, mixed with lavender that would drift into the kitchen.  I`ll just have to plant something else with a nice scent, a fragrant climbing rose for instance?  I`m still working on Jim with a view to him buying one for me...lol!

         

I`ve had Roman here since just after 3 this afternoon, he hasn`t had a sleep all day and was yawning in between smiles. Eventually he just crashed out on the floor and I had to wake him up to get him ready for bed, I`m sure if I hadn`t woken him he would have slept there all night!   He has been sleeping even longer than usual since he`s been crawling, I suppose it must wear him out with all the exertion.  It`s hard work being a baby....lol!  I took this photo of him while he was lying there, I just couldn`t resist it. :o)

I spent a couple of hours clearing out my signature files.  I got rid of the ones I don`t use anymore and I deleted them all from my FTP space, leaving lots of little red crosses at the end of my entries so I suppose I`ll just have to go back and delete them....huh, no chance,  they go back over two years and somehow I don`t think I`ve got the stamina for that...lol!  Tomorrow I`lll be clearing out my pictures, not just from the files but from Kodak Easyshare too, that should free up some space when I`m finished.

           

Today Jim has ordered us some digital phones, it has three handsets and an answerphone, something I wouldn`t be without.  I hope I can work out how to use them, they do everything except make a cup of tea, mind you,  for all I know they do exactly that. Gone are the days when all you do is pick up the phone and say `Hello`, Oh no, that would be too easy, this one has buttons for this and buttons for that. I wouldn`t mind betting that if I get a call, it`ll take me so long to find the `answer` button the caller will have given up...lol!

           

I`ll have to go now as I haven`t finished reading the journals by any means, actually I`ve read and commented on two and I`m not going to tell you how many I have left, let`s just say I`m going to be busy!  I hope you`ve all had a lovely day.  Enjoy your evening and Bye Bye for now. :o)