{"id":325,"date":"2007-12-13T23:09:36","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=325"},"modified":"2012-05-03T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T09:22:34","slug":"two-out-of-three-aint-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=325","title":{"rendered":"Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internet is why credit cards were invented<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve blown some serious cash today:
\ninsured my car, twice (repeat after me; you are a twat)
\ntwo return tickets to Spain
\ncar rental for above<\/p>\n

So it’s finalised then; Christmas.<\/p>\n

I finish work on Friday 21st December which offers the prospect of having a few quiet days at home until The Big One, with hopefully a few opportunities to get 16 hands between my legs. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We’ll be having a sloooow Christmas Day which, as usual, will be dictated by things equine because Christmas Day is the day that Sue the yard manager has off.<\/p>\n

We livery owners turn up early on Christmas morning, we do our own horses, perform the usual stable duties and then have a fried breakfast, glasses of Buck’s Fizz and then go home, shower to get warm and clean (in that order) and probably (if I have my way) climb in to bed and have a snooze!<\/p>\n

In the late afternoon we owners return to the yard, do our pones again then disappear homewards.<\/p>\n

Except we shall be going to the Outlaws where we shall spend Christmas night and Boxing Day.<\/p>\n

Boxing Day night (I’d call it ‘Boxing Night’ except that makes it sound like an evening dahn the booza watchin’ a coupla ‘eavyweights slap each uvva while pouring brahn ale dahn me neck) we’re back at home.<\/p>\n

The day after Boxing Day we’ll trog off to the airport, catch a flight to Spain, pick up the hired car and take the almost four hour-long drive up in to the Sierras where we’ll spend four nights (if my accommodation enquiry bears fruit!). The days will be spent with Daughter doing, erm, stuff.<\/p>\n

Hmmm… thoughts leaping in to my head… perhaps we could go ski-ing if the snow’s not too dangerous?<\/p>\n

We’re coming back to the UK on New Year’s Eve where, in typical rock’n’roll style we’ll probably be flaked out in bed by 22.00.<\/p>\n

That’s Christmas from here.<\/p>\n

How’s it going to be for you?<\/p>\n

B.
\np.s. re the car insurance thing? I bought it lunch-time. I don’t do the pay-by-instalments option, insurance companies make enough out of us hapless motorists without being given extra money for providing the same insurance product. But when I got home and checked the details I found I’d booked the policy to start on 27th December instead of 17th December. So I rang Hastings Direct (who were the cheapest quote by several zillion miles) and they told me that they couldn’t change the start date.<\/p>\n

Instead I had to cancel the policy I’d stupidly bought at lunch-time which I’ll get a refund for (eventually) and then I’d have to buy a new one. So I did. And guess what? The new policy was more expensive! Hastings Direct and I talked about it for a while then I ate the meal that The Lovely S had meanwhile cooked. During the meal Hastings Direct (I swear she said her name was Tuba) rang back and after a bit of financial jiggery-pokery offered me the same premium that I’d taken advantage of at lunch-time. So well done to Hastings Direct and what a twat I am for getting it wrong in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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