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HeatherKay
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Nope. I pulled the "your parent company just quoted me less for more" routine. I'm insured through Diamond, which is a sister company of Admiral, both owned by EUI Ltd. I did an online quote with GoCompare, which gave me Admiral as the best. Diamond quoted my renewal at £242. My online quote, with additional named driver and compulsory £60 excess, was £181. Bridget (with the 'd') down there in Cardiff matched the Admiral price. It pays to haggle, folks.  _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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RedEyes
Occasionally has a life
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It certainly does. Today, at work, I managed to negotiate (ie blag): At least four, and hopefully six, tickets to the Fairford Air Tattoo Almost a third off our electricity prices for the next two years (got a renewal quote from BG, immediately phoned them back with a much better quote from E-on, which they matched, and fixed for two years) A load of freebie extras (couple of hundred quids worth) for a new pressure washer we've ordered. Not a bad haul for the day!  Back on topic, I can't really pick any one thing to be happy about, so far this has been one of those years where nothing much is going on. However, home life and love life is all good, I have a job that pays reasonably, health is good, so I'm just damn well going to go ahead and be happy anyway. 
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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Should be happy - the car got through the MOT fine.
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HeatherKay
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I sense there's a big "but" there... _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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I'm a three figure sum lighter after the cost of the work. Labour for fitting 4 new discs, pads and a change of brake fluid (supplied by me), the MOT. Except I can't cover it, so I'm now in debt to the olds. But this is the happy thread, so I wasn't going to mention it.
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HeatherKay
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Sorry I asked.  _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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What's to be happy about?
I've just made a particularly good cup of tea.
I managed to get the BPS to agree to let me renew my membership at the cheap rate even though it lapsed about 15 years ago.
I have an evening of doing pretty much nothing ahead.
Jon
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pg2114
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:17 pm
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I'm happy that I have finally received a response to the two letters I wrote to my bank months ago, after writing a personal letter to the CEO. I can finally sleep easier at night Peter. _________________A Mac user 
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm
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Location: Scotland
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definatly happy about not ruining my friends leaving party by kissing her and her friends drunkenly  _________________
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pcernie
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I'm currently happy about some of my recent eBay wins. Even happier that I'll soon have a week off - region-specific holidays and annual leave FTW! EDIT - And Guns N Roses on Spotify is just  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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I've stopped pooing like a firehose _________________Jim
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lacloss
Doesn't have much of a life
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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!!
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
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im rediscovering the offspring!!
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saspro
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Just hit 4GHz fi rst go on my new cpu
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finlay666
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As in the band or do you have children  ? I started listening to Iron Maiden and Marilyn Manson again today, the new album of the latter is a bit crap bar a few select tracks _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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