First order of the day today, something I’ve been avoiding like the plague. Sorting out my car insurance.
Managed to do it. And it was a lot less grief than I’d anticipated. And I’ll probably save some money, as well.
I now have SD&P with Admiral, at just over 25% pa (c. £400) of what they wanted for H&R (c. £1,600!). And I’ve now got a PAYG deal with INSHUR, which is both cheaper, and payable as you go… phew!
More car bills loom, as Flo’ is due her MOT. The first in my custody. Aargh! I’m like that proverbial pelican; no matter which I turn there’s always a large bill in front of me!
I’ve come to the cafe at Peckover House, to chill, read, and continue trying to book work…
I picked up War of Wars in a church, for 50p!it’s a massive book, at just under 1,000 pages. And very, very good.
It’s sometimes remarked, in praise of good writing, that it’s ‘readable’. That may sound rather pointless and silly. But actually it’s the mark of the best writing. And this book is very readable.
I’m about 85-90% of the way through the book now. And it’ll be sad, in a way, when it ends. But o have plenty more books to move on to. Including volume three of N. A. M. Rodger’s epic rendering of Britain’s naval history.