Saturday 20 December 2014

Wow How Confusing Is That !!!

I have just spent hours trying to get back into my blogger dashboard.

I have two e mail addresses with Google but only one is connected to the Blog but I used one password for both. Every time I tried to sign in I was told I am not the author of any blogs ! The profile that I was using for my blog was different to the other e mail address so  there was confusion in the camp. Now that I have changed the password for my Blog e mail and signed in with that one separately, well here I am, bingo.

I am sorry that I have not been around for a while, it is a traumatic event moving house. Especially when a buyer pulls out of the deal and you have to pay Council Tax on two homes ! Yes, that`s right you are only allowed ONE month free, even if the house is empty and unfurnished. 
You are only allowed two late or missing payments and then threatened with Court and a further £40 charge " to secure their debt" plus a bill to the end of the Council Tax year.
I understood if you want to insure against bad debt that YOU had to pay the premium, not your client !!!

Another tip, if you have been pestered by calls from companies to reclaim PPI for you. O.K. if their commission is 30% that still leaves 70% for you, anything better than nothing eh. But, make sure there is not a debt on the card or that the account is not still `live` or any refund will be kept by the Bank and you will still be left with a bill from the claims Co. Even if you are paying off the card balance to a debt management Co. make sure they have purchased the debt and are not just managing the debt for the Bank.

Big Tip No. 3 Don`t ever, ever, ever, invest or purchase property in Cyprus, you will for ever regret your decision.

This will be the subject of another blog later on, please come back later.

Tuesday 4 March 2014

HAVE YOU GOT A DVR JOURNEY RECORDER FITTED


Well I am glad that I had one fitted and working last year on our journey back to Cornwall. It was a dark cold winter night, the wind was howling and the rain was falling `cats & dogs`. We had just reached a section of road where the street lights finished, so pitch black. My wife was driving and she had the headlights on full beam, but had to dip them due to oncoming traffic, then out of the dark this large deer appeared running across the grass verge. Then  BANG the car rode over the animal [ if you squeamish stop reading now ] when we came to a stop I ran back to recover the animal before someone else ran over it. I found one leg still intact to pull it onto the verge, it was not a pretty site. As we could not remove it for our freezer [the law says] I offered it to the couple in the next car that stopped !! As a deer is considered a Crown Animal we could not claim damages of `Her Majesty `and had to claim on our own insurers, tough eh.

The bumper was hanging off, water was leaking from somewhere, my Wife was shaking like a leaf in a thunder storm and I was trying to get a signal on my cell phone and avoid getting knocked down myself.

However, we have the incident on video due to the Dash-Eagle video recorder, one of my stock items. Almost everyone who buys one from me says the same thing “ I wish I had one fitted before MY accident” well that is my point. `It is no good bolting the stable door AFTER the horse has bolted` fit one NOW.

Monday 20 January 2014

The old Rover has gone

Well the old rover has now been sold, I`ll miss the old girl after 12 years of faithful service. I hope the new owner get as much pleasure from driving her as I did, I know he will be pleased with the low fuel consumption as I left the Hydrogen Generator  connected, a good £375 worth of kit. At 20% more m.p.g. a hydrogen Generator would soon pay for itself.