What are you all up to

We reserved a Blue Touareg this morning and went to dealer this afternoon to sort the paperwork.  We will get it on Thursday next week, so plenty time to sort the insurance.

We have ordered roof load bars, but will get floor mats and a boot tray on the internet.  And we will be taking a 4 year service plan.

Dealer says they cannot fit a towbar for reasons which were not clear, but have recommended a couple of specialist places, both already known to us, so we will get prices from them this week.

On the way home we decided to go mad and dropped in past a chair place and ordered 2 new "Stressless" leather swivel recliners, with footstools, to replace our present 35 year old ones that are falling apart.  

So now  we have well and truly "spent the kids' inheritance" !  I could easily get used to this!

Well done KjeIINN........you cannot take it with you, so enjoy it 

I wonder why the insurance is so much higher?

I suspect that a lot of dealers who say they fit towbars actually take the car along to a local towbar fitter, if truth be told.

The insurance was a bit of a surprise, but I suppose they are going to be insuring a much more expensive vehicle now than a 10 year old Volvo.

It is also a more powerful engine, and we are a year older!

OH was getting quotes on some comparison sites so was guessing to start with when putting in years of NCD, she put in 6 years and got no quotes at all.  Once she had dug out the paperwork and found she could enter 9 years, the situation improved.

She has also worked out which bank accounts to empty first to pay for the car, so all we need to do now is find all the documents and bits  for the Volvo.

It is a nasty grey. wet morning here so indoor jobs this morning then check the packing for our trip to N.Ireland tomorrow.

Well done Kj.  I hope you enjoy your new car.

Blue Toureg? I thought they were always blue - people of the blue veil aren't they?

Milliehull have a great time. 😀

having problems 😯😯😯😯   

Is that your Kindle Fire you're having problems with? Are there any discussion groups out there to find out information? It's taken me quite a while to sort my phone out but I've finally got there although I'm not using it just now. 

Logged in on my phone now. Brue yes Kindle Fire worked fine on the old system now eats words as you type! Posted on 1st or second day Rochelle said noted. Can read fine on it search on it etc just posting which is a pain as that's my preferred method of reading/posting. Don't want to login on laptop that has to be connected to mains 3 years old and grey don't make replacement battery 😐 it's an HP so wasn't a cheapo.  CT us a dip in and out as and when thing anyway. OK on my phone but not quite so easy to work within different tabs. Oh hmmmmm. Earlier post a classic as first word still gone by the time I posted 😟

Started off bright and dry here blowing gently I pegged out my towels, got ready to walk the dog combined with a blood test and return of selection of handbags to various shops. Grab brolly just in case as appears to be getting darker. Hubby me and the dog step out it is drizzling no time to get washing in. About 5 mins into walk rain starts open brolly to find bent spokes and broken handle - chuck it in the bin get rather damp. Blood test sorted appointment system and I was called in a minute or too early onward to the town. Hubby and dog damper than when I went in. Return £150 yes that much of handbags and that was sale prices 🙄 hubby much relieved 😂😂. NEVER spent or even looked at that sort of money on handbags in 60 years.......... I settled on the one I wanted at home as so many different sizes in various shops one I'd been eyeing up for a couple of months and got in second choice colour for half price last week. Still seemed cavernous so kept looking. Wanted cross between handbag and tote bag now very happy and glad I kept at it. I returned the one I'd coverted for months as it was too big would have been ok for weekend away bag when I really thought about it. Rain stopped by time we walked home now glorious so spun washing and it's out again.

Just been sorting out savings accounts as they have or are maturing.  Still getting 5% interest on some but much shuffling required to do so - hurts my head. All sorted now except I need to open a couple of fixed term bonds for granddaughter's savings but one matures next week so will do as a double job together preliminaries done with Metro Bank, we have a branch 1.2%.  Time for a cuppa now 😃

I bought a mid 80,s Bang and Olufsen sterio unit in near perfect condition so we can play some of our old vynal records that have been in the attic for the last twenty odd years.

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