I am in slight shock. I do work my money out with care. Following the Mr Micawber policy.......
Living in a flat where I pay a maintenance charge, I had got into the habit, since I have been here, of NOT allocating money for general repairs. Must do so in future.
The Loo in my en-suite has had a very small trickle for some time now - tried the idea of ignoring it - but it did not go away and was starting to get slightly worse, so called in a plumber. Not as an emergency, just a normal job,.
He came yesterday, was here for nearly two hours, did the job having taken the cistern apart i n order to put in new part to replace the broken part. I had to pay a call-out charge tot he company when I arranged this, assuming that would be taken off the final bill - but it was not. Did get myj 5% pensioners discount.
However, it has cost me over two hundred quid for that repair. Looking back to when I had a similar one carried out at the house some twelve years ago, for over a hundred pounds, suppose this is correct price - but still a shock to myj (financial) system.
It was all very proper and I was given the cost, before telling the plumber tio proceed with the job, and all appropriate paper work afterwards.
Must say, I had forgotten how very expensive these sort of jobs around out homes can be these days. Think I will need to start to make a monthly allocation for such repairs in the future.
Does anybody work out with kettlebells ?
Scottish island ferries debacle. 🏴