Photos and Insurance

Photos

As promised (or threatened) I have exercised some editorial control and filtered the 3060 or so photos I took down to a much more manageable 2843. Um, yeah. A little over 2800 photos for you to view. Or not.

I considered, briefly, stripping them right down to a couple of hundred but that would require that not only have I taken one or two pictures that sum up a location but also that I can identify them out of the dozens that look remarkably similar. In the modern age you can look at the thumbnails and make your own decisions!

The photos all have a GPS location in them (so you can play with Google maps/satellite views if something catches your eye) and a few words including at the very least the nominal name of the location. I've tagged them similarly though I'm not sure if Google's Picasaweb always does the right thing or indeed even shows all the tags. When I try it, clicking the Romania tag, say, would show me everyone else's Romanian pictures...

Anyway, here are Ian's India 2010 photos.

That's the top level -- it turns out Picasaweb limits you to 1000 photos per album -- so you can click down into the various India 2010 folders. They are in reverse date order, so India 3 is the last one. You'll figure it out, I'm sure.

Whoops, forgot to add that what you might not figure out is why about half the photos seems to be leaning rather dramatically to the right. Now it could be a camera malfunction, it could be systematic camera wobble when I press the shutter (user error) or I could have a degenerative brain disorder leaving me viewing the world at a jaunty angle. Which ever you think is the most likely cause I did have a play with a few photos in Photoshop and found that even the jauntiest are only something like 0.7 degrees off horizontal. Go figure.

Insurance

It turns out the ambulance chasers were my own insurance company! To be fair, like the AA, say, Bennetts finds brokers on your behalf so you never know from year to year who your actual broker is. A Travis Perkins van claims to have had the floor of their van damaged by the "tent" falling from my bike. My insurance company was helpfully sending me a form in case I wanted to claim (nope) or, more likely, so I could state my side of the story in case the Travis Perkins people were bluffing. In addition, fixing the damage the deer did to my car cost around £2400 although the cost to me was a mere £450 in excess charges.

So, both companies will want to know that I've had to make a claim or had a claim made against me on another insurance policy and both will go up (whatever their "no claims protection"). Bugger.