9th July 2025 - Chris is going to Kill me

Thought for the day :"I have difficulty skiing backwards - it's a bit of an uphill struggle!!"

Dry 

Early start - unexpectedly, as I forgot to renew the car insurance - or rather forgot the day of the automatic renewal - at £276 instead of £178..

So last night I logged on - or at least tried to log onto the Privilege Website to see the renewal details and was faced with a continuous "Please try Later - we have an error "  any time I tried to log in - it was one of those "put in your email address and we will send you a passcode to log in" which failed every time ..

As time moved on it got nearer to midnight when the automatic renewal would start to take money from my credit card!!  Didn't want that - Go Compare and Meerkat search meant that there were options for £175 were out there.

AS the witching hour approached and no opportunity to get hold of my insurance company, I though I would contact Tesco Credit Card who claimed to have  24 hour service..  And they did !!!

Got an very quick response on the "Lost Stolen Fraud " line and a very friendly responder who told me that thought there was no way to block a particular claim - it was much easier to put a block on the card for a few hours ,  and talked me through the various bits of the website that allowed a very simple option "Block your Card"

And so no payment went out ( it also messed up ASDA but that got sorted when I unblocked the card)

And so it was an early start for me as I was on the phone at 8.30am talking with a lovely agent who managed to get within £9 of the best option, and it was easier to let the renewal run rather than spend another half hour with a new company for the sake of £5.

And so we are insured for running the Volvo again ...

and then Chris cam - and it was very hot today

And so I forgot to take any photos as we cleared the chicken and ducks of all the straw that is infested with red mite,   burned the accumulated greenery from the paddock, cleared the Balsam from a lot of the Greenhouse area and patio terrace - until I got sting by a wasp as I disturbed a wasp next ..

And then we took advantage of the shade by clearing the back area by the water tank - and failed to actually get the water pump working

Will have to shelve that until next week as we have a busy day tomorrow 
Meet Nancy to get the Big Cheque 
Visit Aberporth School as Vollsanger and give them a song and a cheque

Should be fun 

Susie's chest pains seem to be intercostal muscles as we thought and is improving..

Sadly - we seem to have lost another chicken this evening 

Ho Hum 

Cheers