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Been ages since I last posted, or feels like it at any rate.

I've just been feeling very run down, owing to a lingering throat problem.

Did a math lesson over Zoom with my usual pupil yesterday, but had to break it into a morning and afternoon session as I was so croaky. Still a bit rough today.

On the other hand, the brain cells appear to be returning.

I got organised yesterday, worked out with the aid of Ethical Consumer Magazine who the insurance underwriter with the least fossil fuel investments was, and changed my house and contents insurance to Axa, ditching Direct Line (and making sure they knew why I was leaving), and by way of a bonus, saving over a hundred pounds on my policy as well.

Insurance companies have massive investments. They need to - a really catastrophic event could require enormous sums of money in payouts. Sadly, an awful lot of this money is invested in fossil fuels, driving further expansion of coal, oil and gas that is incompatible with keeping within a 1.5C temperature rise.

Axa are not brilliant, but they're doing better than most other insurers. They're making serious moves to disinvest from coal. (Still there in oil and gas, but any kind of progress is progress). So, I've moved to Axa, and made sure that they know why I've moved.

When I got my car insurance renewal from ASDA, it was £1869 (and they could no longer include breakdown cover in that as the car was getting older).

Thank goodness I shopped around. My new premium is under £800 and includes RAC Roadside. And my new insurer has a telephone number. ASDA used to stress me out terribly as you could only communicate by email - and they didn't always reply even then. Most things had to be done by logging onto the policy and manually editing it to change anything (like a new driver) and I just hated it.

I'm now with IGO4, via Moneysupermarket.com

If that sounds like a bit of an advert, I guess it is. Saving £1000 means a lot to us at the moment. And having an insurer where I can also speak to a human being (I phoned up to ask a question about one part of the policy and had an instant helpful answer) is important to me.

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