This morning, I completed a survey regarding the future of the BBC for the BBC.
Overall, I think it provides a good service, especially the news and documentaries.
Could provide more live sport, but that obviously comes down to money.
Category: General
General life story
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Week 269 – April 28th – Roof
I took some pictures this morning regarding having the roof cleaned, after seeing what this company had done at my parents’ house.
Roof – especially the moss on the left hand side to be cleaned. 
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Week 268 – April 22nd – New laptop
After a few days of doing the cricket job, I realised that I needed a new laptop.
After discussing with Mark, I decided to purchase a laptop from Dell.
Main features, being a large screen, 32GB of memory, and good network card.
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Week 268 – April 21st – Magic Radio top 100 artists
Earlier in the year I voted for my 3 favourite music artists and today Magic Radio played the top 100.
This is where my selection finished in the top 100
Pet Shop Boys 35th
Michael Jackson 9th
Queen 2nd
In 1st place was George Michael and the highest female artist was Whitney Houston at 5th.
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Week 266 – April 9th – Thank you Trump NOT
On Wednesday, I always check my pension, and I was not looking forward to it with all news around the Trump tariffs and the market loosing big time.
Sure, enough and after looking back through my records, this was only 5th time I had lost over £10K in one week, but this was the most ever of £19k
How can one man in a different country impact mine and Claire future and where we can do nothing about it.
After speaking to both my financial adviser and financial market analysis, it just sit tight and hope he comes to his senses – which is a worrying thought.
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Week 265 – April 4th – First financial win of the year
Today I picked up our first Lottery financial win of the year.
We have had several lucky dip wins, this was actually from the Euro Lottery, which I did for the first time, as the Jackpot was £202, which someone in Europe won.
first win of the year, was actually on the Euro Lottery, where the jackpot was over £200 million -
Week 261 – March 7th – New car
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Week 261 – March 6th – Cost of living survey
Over a month since I was first asked if I would do this survey, we were finally able to do it.
Bob came around and asked various questions. Most were the same from other times we had done the survey.
This is one of the ways the government see how households are coping in life regarding living and cost of stuff.
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Week 261 – March 4th – New car or not new car
So today we drove to get the new car, even though we had not heard from car supplier.
We entered the show room and I saw our sales person, as I walked towards him, I could see that he was surprised to see us.
Yes he wasn’t expecting us and hadn’t read the email I sent.
So annoying, after trying to sort this out in advance.
Cut a long story, short, will go back on Friday.
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Week 260 – February 28th – Not what you want to see
We had gone to get a coffee and got back into the car, Claire said what’s that pointing at the car front window.
I got out of the car and it looked even worse, something had caused a massive crack on the screen.
You don’t want it to happen at any time, but we are selling the car next Tuesday.
A massive crack on the window and were meant to be selling the car next Tuesday. Once we got back home, I posted on the Auto glass website and was advised someone would call back by 1pm.
Of course no call, so I was then able to find a number to contact them and after speaking with a very helpful person, the earliest it could be done was Tuesday morning, the same day as picking up the new car.
I rang the car seller and of course the sales person wasn’t available, not surprising with the new car registration out tomorrow, so sent an email.
Let see what they say.
