I was all set to have a nice profitable end to May after I discovered that I’ve been overpaying my electricity bill for nearly a year.
It turns out that I’ve been misreading the meter (above) and giving a slightly larger figure than what I’ve actually used.
And now I’ve been given a rather significant refund from my electricity supplier.
Horray! Happy birthday me!
But I came home to a note from my neighbour that the new garden fences that I had replaced back in January had become loose. Sigh.
The long and short of it that the refund is now going to be used to pay 95% of the bill demanded by the handyman I’m hiring to fix the rotten post and fix everything so that it’ll last. That post should have been replaced back in January when the wild weather of Surrey wrecked havoc with garden fences and other things that are incredibly annoying to replace.
Oh hum. At least the weather ain’t too bad at the moment and we don’t have to batten down the hatches for a while.
I might be able to enjoy my garden this summer once this has been fixed (and have given the grass a bit of a cut).
So it’s back to an austerity birthday for me on the 22nd. Oh well, at least it’s not yet my 40th.
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