The fun never stops...

Just got a letter from my lawyer with a load of stuff that the other party intends to use as evidence (declared documents, or something). Amongst other things this includes the other guy's statement (laughable, I only hope he's as unbelievable in court as he is on paper), and the witness statement ("I didn't see the crash, but the car was heavily damaged and so I suggest the bike was going very fast". Yes mate, 30mph is very fucking fast to hit an essentially immovable object - I certainly wouldn't want to repeat the experience).

It also includes my blog from Advogato, a site I haven't been on since 2005 - I assume they're planning to use some stuff I wrote there about getting a written warning at work (pre-accident job) against the 'loss of earnings' part of my claim, but we'll see. Finally, they've included my CV, and a copy of a random e-petition that I signed on the PM's website. I can't see the relevance of the former, but this is dwarfed by the lack of relevance of the latter. I strongly suspect they just googled my name and printed off everything that didn't have the word 'perl' on the page :)

Anyway, have emailed my lawyer with my thoughts on the pile of stuff. Not much to be done about any of it at this stage, I'm pretty sure it's going to end up in court and then I just hope that I can keep my shit together and sound coherent while the other guy will hopefully sound at least as much like he's making up random nonsense as he does in his written statements:

"I blame the motorcyclist as the bike was travelling too fast and could not stop in time to pass me."

So I should have stopped and passed him? Right then. At least I'll know for next time, eh?

Arse.

My car appears to have eaten all the electricity in the battery while it was parked up for the last week. I assume this means that at some point someone set the alarm off, and I've totally failed to notice because it was parked bloody miles away (I hate this area).

Anyway, it now occurs to me that not only do I no longer appear to own any jump leads, but also I don't appear to know very many people who drive (I can think of exactly three, after careful thought - the rest of you are clearly a bunch of bloody hippies). The combination means that the only way I can see to get the car going again is to pay the RAC something like 40 quid extra to extend my cover to 'home' as well as 'roadside recovery' so that they'll come and jump-start it for me. Which seems a bit crap really.

Update: battery currently on charge in the hallway. The gauges on the charger don't seem to suggest that it's as flat as I'd expect, but then they have been known to be fairly inaccurate in the past.