I got your claim back, Tan. They want originals of your Travel Booking Invoice, Invoice showing premium paid and Insurance Master Certificate. Photocopies won’t do, even for £33!

I assume you have the originals. Anyway, I phoned them and confirmed that the claim could be finalised any time so if the originals are with you you can deal with it later.

Or are they with me?

Also, they require written authorisation from you giving consent for another person to deal with the claim on your behalf. An ordinary Power of Attorney doesn’t look to be enough.

Anyone would think this was a claim for many hundreds of thousands, blast them …

If it’s Flight SQ286, it leaves Auckland at 1415 and arrives in Singapore at 2045.

poor moggies i say!

gone of the wwoofing as i have only six or so days left. i need to get an itinary from somewere but my flight leaves at 2.15 so it is likly that it will arive in singapore at about 2 in the morning which sounds nice

julio

Electric storms last night. Much mewling from the cats outside several hours before the skies opened … too comfy in bed to respond. We’re just going to Petworth House to look at some paintings.

You haven’t got to Malaysia yet, Tan? How are the bumps???

The guidebook I consulted about Bali said avoid renting any motorised vehicle (2 or 4 wheels) on account of appalling local drivers, crappy upkeep, fake insurance, and corrupt local traffic police who sting you for vast fines for no reason.

nestling in the guest house at the mo watching the torent or rain flying of the roof!! It is really the rainy seasoin now, and the rain is just a solid sheet. You can;’t see more than two feet infront of you, and you wouldn’t have to go out for more than a nano second to be drenched. pleasent beach weather we thought!!!!! Geoff also wanted to hire some harley davison lookalike today… Mayhaps in bali!

Being barhams aswer to the village idiot, me thinkest that a platoon of highly trained guards (geoff) should be sent forth width to meet you, and perhaps even help you of the plane!!

WEll, we are of to do a spot of ‘singing in the rain’ as there is precious little else to do as the beach is a no go area!!

Love Tanya

hello! pics: top: christian snoozing in bluey, believe it or not three people slept in tat van. mid: rather top notch view just before i went white water rafting. bottom: once more the old gang doing a spot of fishing.

gods, i hate harry potter.just thought i would share that with you all.

yes it is still the first, tan. not long to go indeed! i doubt if annika will be joining us in bali, but we shall see.gadzooks malarky! dost thee thinkoth of me as some foolish knave? i canst findith mine ownest way from the hive of corruption and pesterlance we know as singapore. upon my troth i couldst meet thee wereever thee wish.

money is a bit low. wwoofing rears its ugly head once more and i think we will do it for maybe a week.
thanks for the e-mail also mama, rest assured i read your corrispondance, but usally after i have blogged.

last night we went to the world famous napier solstice fire festival on the green near our hostel. much fun, involving such delights such as a opera singing comedian who presented the show, a fire pod from a hot air balloon, flaming poys(fire chians wirled about the head.) a rather jolly rock band called double scotch who had the novel idea of encorperating bagpipes into a rock band. music was a bit crap but it was fun seeing them prancing about in there kilts and playing on a set of electric bagpipes of all bizzare things. the was also some cook island drummers, and some hot salsa dancing which i think mama would have enjoyed, many prancing and chest jutting blokes with oiled hair frolicking with dusky snake impresionists. then there fire works, quite impressive really, and a massive bonfire which we sat around until late. good stuff.

julio