Check Out My Box
There is nothing quite like getting post that isn't a bill.. I love unexpected mail and this box came out of the blue and has really brightened my day.
You can see more about my recent crash by
clicking
HERE
..HERE
and
HERE
Or you can click these links below.. If the links
aren't working come back in a bit as the servers are
being refreshed..
http://www.ourmaninside.com/blog/files/84acdca4295a8c386c63fbcf7954a1c2-77.php
http://www.ourmaninside.com/blog/files/0188b4e27e4482e04cf38d5effcd1afa-78.php
http://www.ourmaninside.com/blog/files/dbf66fea33e89f3defea42ce486c88e5-79.php
Thanks again to
Summersault
Communications
Crashage
Desperate times call
for desperate measures and whilst thinking about how
I can regain my freedom and leave the village I
remembered a little Vespa wannabe I had hidden under
a pile of junk in the garage.
I am not normally a winter rider, I don't have the
electrically heated kit that is normally required to
survive our extreme temperatures. I don't like
falling off on the ice either.. especially
after the Landy
incident.
Still, i do have a fat no claims bonus on a motorbike
having never claimed and the little 125cc LML Star
Delux does do the length of the country on a cup of
fuel.. so why not. If it weren't for the ice this
week I would have about 9 years no claimes on a car
too.
I can insure tax and mot the bike for the same price
as a set of Land Rover seat covers. So I have. And
for the moment I have limited freedom and the means
to get out of the village and at least into the
nearest two towns without resulting to our sporadic
and expensive public transport.
I am still going to need a car for those long
distance kit lugging journeys but having a burn on
the little bike today has made me yearn for another
'practical' bike that I can use for work.
I would also like to add a big thank You to the kind
folks that have donated to the Land Rover fund. I
can't tell you how cheeky i feel having this on my
site. It wasn't my initial idea and I was asked from
more than one person to set it up. I also won't be a
hypocrite and say i don't appreciate the idea.. I do.
Insurance companies are notorious at being difficult
and mine is no exception. After over 14 phone calls i
have found the right person to talk to, only then to
be told my claim has had to be re-started due to an
internal error. It will be a while before I see this
resolved and in the meantime I really need to be
mobile. At the very least so that I can work.
You never know, Land Rover may still get wind of my
appreciation and sponsor me to produce more content.
Parody and when to not look into a horses mouth..
parody |ˈparədi|
noun ( pl. -dies)
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
I am loving the seesmic films that have sprouted after yesterdays crash.. It is linked here if you havn't seen it.
Here are a couple of the parody's posted so far..
There has also been talk of a Land Rover Fund and whilst I am sat at my Grand Mothers (an 83 year old Italian woman who makes killer pizza named Ofelia) she has seen a couple of people talking of a collection so I can get another sensible vehicle. This is amazing to her and she is more than a little shocked that a website made up of people I mostly haven't met are considering helping me in acquiring a new car..!
I said they were joking but she said "Never look a gift horse in the mouth" or words to that effect. She actually said, "Never look in a horses mouth", but i know what she means..
So i am not.. Perhaps I am being cheeky by posting this chip-in link here.. but hey-ho.. I did just get a repair quote for £6780.. and that pretty much means my Land Rover is a write off.. I can't ever imagine getting another in the same condition for what i paid for this one.. Not unless someone out there knows the folks at Land Rover and they want to use my original post for marketing..
I do feel like it saved my life.. But whether i could ever get another.. who knows..