Posted 9:55 AM by Cath

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I missed blogging so here I am.

Quick update.

I have Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome. It is kicking my ass. I went back to work very part time in November and fell ill again at the end of January. Currently off work but trying everything I can to get back on track (no caffeine, no alcohol, 5+ portions of fruit and veg a day, little or no sugar, meditation, wholegrain foods etc. etc.) as I'm bored pantsless. It doesn't help that we have no Sky at the moment due to a whole bunch of metal poles blocking the signal.

Big Haggis Towers is covered in scaffolding due to chimney-related horror. They are charging us £6.5k for the privilege of stopping the chimneys falling in. I make the point that if they fall through the roof there are several other flats for them to fall through before they hit us - the folk on the top floor should pay more due to the relative danger. ;o) This morning an additional statutory notice plopped through the letterbox informing us that we now have to make repairs to the masonry and spalling (what is spalling - waiting for Dad the Surveyor to call back with a translation). They wouldn't have known that if they hadn't been poking around on the scaffolding with a mallet on Monday! Bah!

When Mr. S and I ventured into the land of home-owning, we bought this flat with the intention of doing it up (it was decorated and plumbed etc. by monkeys we think) and moving on after three to four years. However, long term illness and huge bills for building work that we can't even see when we're in the flat means we may have to revise that plan.

It never rains but it pours eh?

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