A quick note for Lynda G, who commented on yesterday's post - yes, we already use drybags, but given they're perched on the back of our kayaks, they're only of use when we make landfall and not when on the water, as reaching for them while waterborne would upset the equilibrium of the kayak. For little items needed en-route, I use both a small, screw down compartment in the centre of the kayak (just large enough for a mobile phone), or a dry pouch round my waist.
We came back a day early from Pembrokeshire yesterday as the weather broke and it started to pour down. We were just going past Swansea at 3pm and hit what I assumed to be the tail end of the Dover queue.
We did, however, manage a bike ride into Pembroke and back before we returned home, thereby completing a 3 day triathlon - one day of walking, one of kayaking and another of cycling. We went to Pembroke via Lamphey. where we visited the ruins of the Bishop of St David's Palace.
On using the electric bike, which I hadn't used for a while, I noticed the front wheel, although usable, was quite badly buckled - a consequence of No.2 Son being knocked off it by a car in Chipping Sodbury High Street a month ago. The insurance company of the bloke who knocked him off is playing hardball, denying their client has any liability and refusing to send him the CCTV footage and witness statements, claiming they can only send them to his solicitor. This is an obvious ploy to deter him, a university student on a grant, from making a claim, I told him to quote the 1988 Data Protection Act, whereby an individual has the right to access any information that is held about them by another party. They got a bit flustered at that and said they'd get back to him.
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:They got a bit flustered at that and said they'd get back to him." I was involved in the insurance industry and claims handling for many years and can confirm that rather a lot of handlers see their job as to prevent all and any claims being paid. Many do not even know the correct interpretations of the policies. I have been involved with numerous claims where u/w refused to settle valid claims, even at less that the claimed amount, only to end up in court having to pay the full claim and all costs.
But then those making the decisions in the u/w are layers and those raking in the cash for their stroppiness are lawyer friends. Nuff sed.
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