Narrowboat Alacrity

Well that time has come around again………….. Yes Insurance time………..

I have always had the ” Fully Comprehensive ” insurance for Alacrity. Her first policy was with Michael Stimpson, real personal service. Then he merged with Mardon Marine who are now part of Towergate. Up until now I have not changed my brokers………..so what made you change I hear you ask……..Well when I looked at how my premium was put together I found that first there was the actual insurance cost plus an arrangement fee then get this a voluntary donation to their charity………….there was a note later on saying that I could deduct the charitable amount if I wanted to.

My view is that they had no right to add this amount even though I could elect not to pay it, It is the assumption that annoyed me. I regularly give to charities that I choose to support and donate items to charity shops.

I don’t like tin wavers or people who accost you in shopping precincts and try to shame you into donating.

I will donate to who I choose, an amount I choose, and at a time I choose…………………………………………….             

I now insure through Craftinsure online ……………………

We only decided to visit Alacrity first thing on Saturday, the weekend looked promising weather wise and the back pain Jo had been suffering from all week was on the mend and she felt well enough for the drive up.

It had only been three weeks since our last visit and already the spiders had decided to move back to their old haunts and breed………………thus a mass spider cull was in order we tried the humane method of chasing them out of the windows but as one was persuaded to leave two more would scamper in on the other side .

Afters general spring clean Alacrity was pronounced habitable. next was a shopping trip to Tesco in Daventry to stock up on staples as some of the tinned food was showing a sell by date of 2004. and the cleaning materials had taken a serious hit.

Fortified by the thought of a coffee in Tesco before shopping we set off only to find the store had totally removed the coffee shop in favour of a larger customer services area……………oh bum…………

Well having just picked up the cats, done the shopping and visited Vi (my mother-in-law) I decided it was time to update the blog.

Whilst I was away I had read a few books on Linux (alternative computer operating system) I had sort of decided to try Ubuntu a variation of Linux, Having downloaded the programme I decided to load it.

It loaded like a dream and recognised all my hardware it even went on to start downloading the updates……………….Phutt…………….Sod all happened…..ok ok so I should have left well alone, But as you all know I never learn……..The upshot is that the power supply has gone faulty and yes its £89.00 to replace.

So while waiting for it to arrive I’ll have to use my laptop………………