“Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Will you both just be quiet and shuffle along a bit!”
“It’s just not fair.”
“Yeah, we found this spot first.”
“We?! You mean I found it and you’re just trying to muscle in!”
“Er, no! I was with you when we stumbled across it, don’t forget!
“Children, children, just calm down will you? This sun trap was here long before you discovered it, and now you have found it, it’s time to use it. So, which one of you will spread the sun cream on my back?”
“Mum, really? Since when did a beetle need sun cream?”
It’s Tuesday, and that means Colleen’s Tanka Challenge! Of course, just providing a couple of words would be far too simple, so we have two words, yes, but we can’t use them! Only synonyms allowed!
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “the last piece of mail you received.” Talk about the subject of the last piece of physical mail you received, i.e. a gas bill–talk about gas, not the bill itself. Have fun!
Hmmm… it’s not often I get mail nowadays. Most of my bank statements and bills are online, as I hate to throw so much paper away!
However, there are some things that are inevitable… Bills.
And Insurance renewals.
The last piece of physical mail I received was a renewal reminder for my cat, Sonu Singh. And his Pet insurance premium.
We are lucky to be blessed with a beautiful, healthy kitty who has just celebrated his 5th birthday with us too.
And his health means that we haven’t ever had to use the insurance, but is’s a ‘just in case’ scenario, as it is for all insurance.
He’s a fully fledged member of the family so he deserves to be looked after, just right too!
But the premiums! Oh my!
It went up by £100 just in a year, and that is even though we haven’t claimed ever.
Apparently it’s his age.
Seriously? He’s 5! And a house cat, at that.
Most insurers mention the 10 year mark as a time you would start to see rises, but not our company.
Suffice to say, we found another insurer, at a fraction of the cost, and the same piece of mind regarding our fur baby.
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