NO more relationships with 'girls next door'!; - after TWO in the 'Priory Street Posse'!

Lulu but was to wait frantically for over a week, as we see now,
to try again before getting any response. It was to turn out
that their latest user interface had considerable teething
problems!
I was awoken on Tuesday by a phone call from Barclays, and it
was their fraud department quizzing me about a failed attempt
to draw out over £3,000 to a holiday company the other week,
and asking which recent transactions on my card were mine.
They gave me the phone number of the debit card department,
and I duly rang, cancelled my card and requested another one.
There was still a postal strike! Would my new card and PIN
number arrive by the weekend, so I had more than the mere
£80 I had on me in cash less groceries from last night? I spent
£20 of the precious £80 or less in posting off at last, with the
strike due to end the next day, my eight precious papers I had
produced over the last weekend – with the additional cost of
acetate and cardboard covers and binders adding to my
financial misery – my main topic of conversation with Jackie,
my nurse who arrived at 4pm…
So started two whole months, of financial misery and
devastating stress, only about to end this Wednesday 19 th
December with a substantial cash injection in the form of a
£2,000 loan. Possibly as we will be seeing in due course with
much more than that from a wholly unreliable source. With
many more periods of days relying on my own dog ends from
my bin in my lounge containing that vital reserve of my own
usually deliberately very long dog ends – than I have ever in
my whole life suffered – ever!
Wednesday started with another financial crisis in parallel with
that major one, even. I had an unexpected call from Green
Energy, who had been billing me for electricity since March,
without ever demanding payment, so the bill was now some
£200. We discussed the fact that Npower had been billing me
some £44 a month by direct debit in parallel to these six unpaid
Green Energy bills, or so, and I realised that many previous
conversations with meter readers, who always promised to
correct this problem but never actually did so, indicated that
the National Database for household power meters showed my
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