I have a trip to Exeter and a trip to Plymouth booked in the coming weeks (well, just the hotels, ao far) and next year two trips to Spain.I won't book anything else for a bit, but may do Worcester as well later in this year or next year. 2027 at about this time of year or a bit earlier in the year for longer days, will be Scotland. This makes me happy, but then I think of what I've been through. I had a Ducati written off, nearly lost a leg, painso unbelievable that I couldn't escape from
I just posted something here and lost it. But not even that can't annoy me! It was about me calling my elder brother to thank him for his efforts, as we are finally, finally, at the end of the accident journey. I happened to mention all my planned trips, that mostly involve the train to Plymouth or Exeter. He said that I should get a senior railcard. I've been put off by the cost before, as it is eighty quid! Anyway, I went for it. I need to book the train to Exeter this week so we shall see if it saves much. It doesn't really save me anything as it just encourages more trips. The train to Fishguard for Ireland and then Liverpool for the Isle of Man. And that's before we get into the Scotland stuff! Anyway, it has been a long, hard, painful journey and I came very close to losing a leg so I am allowed to be happy! I wanted more money out of the winnings, but I can wait. I wanted to get Spain next year organised and now that is all done apart from the train journeys to Plymouth, I can wait.
Its been a long -and painful- haul for you. Glad that everything seems to have finally worked out. Enjoy!
I am determined to enjoy and be happy! I know that the investigating police officer thought it probably a fatality. I don't know as | remember nothing, but I might of written off a car with my head! I maybe a bit naive, but my solicitor and barrister were disappointed not to achieve a million quid for me! Around three-quarters of a million after the deduction of a £40,000 success fee, minus about another £100,000 to family members for their expenses, like travel, dog-boarding, and lost working to attend meetings and hospital visits. Then there was paying off my credit cards and loans and shit. The only thing that I might struggle with, is asking for the money out of my trust fund to buy a Panigale. Releasing about 20k from my trust fund to buy a new motorbike might stretch my solicitor's patience a bit too far! I can leave that one for a bit! The really sad thing is that if I asked for about £50k to buy some electric car piece-of-shit, I am reasonably confident that would get agreed! Funny old World . . . .
The senior railcard thing works really well as it integrates with the GWR app on my phone. I've bought my train tickets for Exeter and I saved ,ore than £25! I didn't bother with first class as it is only about an hour and during the day on a Wednesday, I hope it is not going to be mad busy like it was when I tried to go to Plymouth a few months ago. I have reserved a seat this time, so if the staff get pissy about letting m on, when I have a reserved a seat, that gives me a good excuse to get very pissy back! I've no idea what I will do there, but hope to get down to Exmouth one day just to see the sea!
This is from a new tablet, coz I want to fry Windows 11 sometime and this thing will allow such madness, whereas my desktop wont. First impressions of this HP tablet, together with the latest version of Windows, is that I have made a bag mistake. Android on a tablet is by far better!
Google says "River Severn" here. Fair dos: it is tidal where it says "River". What this proves is . . . . . . . And I was born in Chiswick, London and we used to walk down to the River Thames. It was tidal here, I think, and over forty miles from the sea!
Doesn't affect me, or my stash, but apparently the insurance company and my solicitor are still arguing over legal fees. Well. they agreed to pay me what they did, plus my legal fees. They never bothered to ask what the fees where going to look like. Now it looks a bit too tasty for them! Well, more fool them. They should of got a handle on things from the start and shouldn't of wasted my solicitors' time with all those stupid denials, saying that I couldn't prove that it was me riding the bike at the time of the accident, as well as not being able to prove my injuries, trying to believe that it was just a few cuts and bruises! They really, really should know better. I wonder if they are too dumb to see that if they just admitted liability at the start and offered a good figure. they could of saved thousands. Or more like tens of thousands. Their naivety is breathtaking! I am just a spectator as they always said that they would pay me what they did PLUS legal fees! Interesting tactic, though. Your insured client admits liability from the get-go and is prosecuted for driving without due care, yet you go on an insane journey, denying and questioning everything. You virtually force my solicitor to instigate action in the high court, until finally you start arguing legal fees after doing your best to increase them unnecessarily by creating diversion tactics! Never once did they ask how much the legal fees were stacking up after all the time-wasting tactics. Strange.
I can only assume that these tactics must work sometimes. It seems insane to me, but I guess people do just give up. Even if they are in the right. I must admit, that is how I felt in my darkest times. I just wanted to move on and pit it all behind me. I may be wrong, but I wouldn't of thought that I am alone in these feelings. The fact that it was "no-win no-fee" doesn't help if you just give up. My brother appointed the solicitor and the terms were clear, that if you just give up, then you are responsible for the solicitor's legal fees. At about £450 ph, these could have go quite tasty!
Don’t stress about it. If they can’t agree on a figure then you our sols will just put it before a specialist costs judge in the Senior Courts Costs Office for determination in a process called “detailed assessment” and, for good measure, the defendant’s insurer will be liable for the costs incurred in that process too.
