We got an email this morning to say that the dentist has died. That was shocking. I never met her because my dentist left earlier this year, and the practice assigned me this one. I looked at her picture on the website when they told me she was my new dentist, and she only looked in her thirties. I don’t know what can have killed her so quickly – a heart failure? A stroke? It’s so sad because I think she had young children. You just don’t know what each day will bring.
We changed my car insurance so my elder daughter is on it. Privilege, our current company, wanted to charge us £404 extra for a learner driver. We had a quick look online and discovered the RAC offered the same thing for £240 less. We went with the RAC and paid the £50 cancellation cost (with £10 admin fee) that Privilege charged. It’s a sorry world when you can’t trust the people you buy products from, and when you know they’re looking for chances to swindle you.
The latest on the lens: the seller has agreed that £90 is a fair price and has said he will refund me part of the cost. No refund as of this evening. I have taken the lens out of its box now, and assumed I’m keeping it. I hope he refunds me, and I don’t have to complain to Ebay.
I did some gardening in the afternoon and in the evening transferred the stuff from my day bag to a proper camera rucksack I had. My day bag didn’t have compartments in for lenses and flashes, so I was keeping each in separate pouches within the bag. Now things are much better organised. The lenses and flashes fit in little compartments, which are quicker to access. There’s a laptop pocket at the bag where I can put my notebooks.