A Car Insurance Minefield

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So finally I managed to get around to passing my driving test - 14 years too late I must add! Through an on and off period of around 3 years, I managed to bag myself some lessons, pass my theory and then sneak over the finish line of the practical exam just a few weeks shy of my theory running out! So that was it, I was road legal and I needed wheels! Having moved a few miles from where I had grew up, a car meant i could easily zip back and forth and mingle with familiar surroundings when it suited me, rather than waiting for a lift or public transport!

For me, car insurance was a new concept, yes I was aware of it, but the details and the options available went right over my head. I needed some help so I resorted to everyone's' favorite internet friend......Google! After all, the Lycos dog is just a shadow of his former self, and surely by now he would of had to have been humanely euthanised! Anyway, back to it...I needed information and I found this guide on car insurance. 

Having read through I was up to speed with everything, I was now armed with the information I required to ensure that I wasn't sold anything I didn't necessarily need. 

Now I am a shrewd man, perhaps too shrewd...It took me 3 days to find a quote I was happy with, when I say that, I mean it took me 3 days to find the cheapest! 

Cutting a long story short, I am now on the road, I'm still no driving expert and never will be, but at least I know I am a little more educated on the subject! I used Confused.com in the end after days of trawling through quotes. They seemed to deliver me the best priced one with GoSkippy!

I would say that if you are new to driving and have been completely ignorant with insurance, then just have a read and brush up your knowledge! 

Here's to my renewal date......Hopefully I can achieve 1 years no claims bonus!

Who Is Loving All Of The Ugly People?

Is there someone for everyone out there? I often wonder as I’m walking around, who is loving all of the ugly people?  Ugly is a terrible word when it comes to summing up someone’s appearance.  I’m talking about those ugly souls, the ugliness that people keep within. 

Its one thing to be attracted to someone, but in most cases it is true what they say - It’s what is on the inside that counts. 

So who is loving all of these ugly people?  I know certainly that I would not want to be with someone of that nature.  My fiancée has a lovely soul with an infectious personality – its what makes my life so happy!  I could not imagine it if she were to turn out to be such a bitch on the inside. (I hope she never reads this).

Is it a case of two “uglies” make a right, having a trophy partner, or is it just plain and simple that one person can be attracted to someone so much that they see through all of the bad?

I am interested to know what you all think.  If you saw someone who you were really attracted to but could see they had an ugly soul, would you continue your pursuit of them or would you let go and find someone else?

Just How Big Is The Universe?

I have quite a fair knowledge of the universe and our standing in it.  I have grasped the idea of its expanse, but I know that I cannot fully comprehend just how large that is.

It is very rare I have to go into detail about anything because usually there isn’t anyone around me that shares my interest in this subject, but on February the 21^st a little miracle happened.  Whilst we were driving back home my partner turned to me.  She wanted to know what the big bright star was that was to the bottom right of the moon.  She suggested that it was the North Star but I had told her that I was sure it was a planet.  As it got darker another star appeared to the top right of the bright star.  This was a reddish colour and it had begun to perk her interests.

Later on I looked into it for us and it turned out to be Venus and Mars.  My partner was astonished that she could not only see them but that she didn’t realise they were so close.  I began to explain to her that they were not close at all and in fact for us to travel there would take quite a while.

She then asked another question, she wanted to know how close the nearest star was to us.  I looked it up and it was roughly around 4.25 light years away.  Her obvious reaction was to try and work that out into something more fathomable based on our terms.  It equated to over 160 trillion miles – she was blown away.

I then tried to put something together for her hypothetically for her to try and understand how vast the universe is.

This is what I explained to her:

The universe does not work on our theory of time, it just exists and we try to interpret it into something understandable and useful.  Imagine if we had the technology right now to travel billions of light years from earth and then look back.  Imagine that we had a super powerful telescope so we could zoom right in on the planet. What would we see?  If we timed it right, we would be able to see the dinosaurs walking around!  We would be able to look back in time and see the planet in a much earlier state.  This is because of the distance we are away from the earth.  If we were 1 billion light years from earth and the planet were to explode, we would not see it for 1 billion years.

It really is hard to comprehend when you’re working with an expanse as vast as the universe.

Realising I Will Never Touch The Stars

I often find myself saying one simple line to answer certain questions – Never say never.  I am a firm believer in the thought that anything is possible.  How can you say now to what you do not know about tomorrow?  However, I am starting to realise that I will never touch the stars.  The thoughts I had growing up of being able to travel around in space to other worlds always excited me.  Seeing programmes on the TV like Star Trek and Stargate always kept me thinking that one day this could all be possible.  What I could not comprehend back then though was the time it would take to develop a new type of technology like this.  Something completely unknown being invented to propel man further and faster into space than previously achieved before. 

Whilst I have always realised that I would never really be traveling in space myself, it was more mankind as a collective breaking the boundaries and pressing on with discovery that tantalised my mind.  I would love to hear that a new type of spacecraft has been designed that will take a team to a distant earth like planet. I would then be waiting eagerly on the edge of my seat waiting for the results.

However, knowledge has grounded my thoughts of ambition.  Although I can still say that you can never say never, the fact of the matter is that technologically we are nowhere near even creating a prototype, ideas have floated around but at the moment the thought of traveling to a distant planet in a human’s lifetime is impossible.

I have to come to terms with the fact that I will probably live out my life never knowing if there were other possibilities out there.  But does this say more about me than I would care to believe?  I have only just asked myself this question as I have wrote to this point.  It has never previously crossed my mind, but should I be satisfied with what I have?  After all, we are incredibly lucky to have not only evolved but to also be at the top of the food chain.  I have a life that is of better quality than anything before and here I am writing a post about still wanting to reach for more.

Having paused for almost 5 minutes whilst pondering what I have just wrote, I am going to chalk this one down to human nature.  It is not within us to just be content.  Set your mind wondering and it will trigger a world of possibilities in your imagination.  I am the happiest I have ever been in my life but I will still continue to look at the stars and wonder.  This is not because I am unsatisfied in life, but because I am a curious little being who lives on a rock that has helped my species evolve to understand, and more importantly, to dream!