An Age of Magic

Save your money for who you want to have it – make a will!

Just say you have saved all your life, you did not take regular holidays even though you deserved and could afford to. You worked hard, went without a lot of luxuries, saved hard and did not waste your money. Then someone comes along and takes your money, all your annuities and assets and gives  the sum total away to complete strangers who just happen to share a great-grandparent with you. You have never seen them in your life, never even heard of them but they get every penny you have ever saved.

This scenario is seen each week on a show called ‘Heir Hunters’ – it is about what happens to the estates of people who die without making a will…their money goes to distant and far-flung relatives who often never even knew the deceased was even alive. I would hate that to happen to me and it is a very sad thing to consider. One lady’s money went to a cousin who happened to be the last person she would ever have wanted to have her money due to a long running family feud. But she never made a will…

Make a will and ensure your money goes to whoever YOU want it to go to.

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Were you foogled by Google…?

Google have finally come out and explained that mysterious doodles on their search engine masthead had a real purpose; they were to celebrate the birthday of science fiction author H. G. Wells. Now if one had had a Canon camera back then what would Wells have thought…?

The doodles were a UFO and strange crop circles and had the online world abuzz as to what Google were getting at. Each day has seen different drawings but each carried a clue pointing towards the birthdate of Wells – the final being a scene from War of the Worlds. Old Herbert George would be pleased; he would be 143 years old and he fooled people back in 1898 with his stories of mars and martians just as Google flummoxed a more sophisticated audience today.

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Insurance headaches

One thing we did not consider was how we would insure our car once we moved abroad. We bought our Suzuki ‘here’ and will be driving it over the border when we return home. We assumed that it would be uncomplicated…

We always purchase our auto insurance online but ran into problems when we discovered that our make of car is not sold in our home country. Net result is we are having problems finding cover for it. We have narrowed things down to just two companies who may be able to assist us – otherwise we will be looking at selling and repurchasing when we get home.

Talk about a headache!

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