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Hi guys, if you want to trick me with that TV licence scam, my direct debit comes up in January. Another tip, if you don't get me the first time, sending the same email ten times probably won't do it.
But I got it for the eleventh time today so just in case there has been some kind of administrative error I sent in all my details. Just to be safe.
And it didn't matter cos later on I got an email about a tax refund of £345.61. Enough to pay two years of licence fee and splash some money on some erectile dysfunction tablets!
It shows real commitment that these guys are working bank holiday too. So I rewarded them with immediate responses and suggest you do the same.
For once my son waking up at 5.30 was a good thing. We were out and on the road within an hour and after a ridiculously easy drive with hardly any crying or traffic jams (again I don't know how our parents did drives like this without iPads) we were back home by 11.30am. Edinburgh already felt like a weird dream and best of all we were returning to a place where we had some assistance with child care. I had a bona fide afternoon to myself for the first time in a month.
Honestly such a weight off our shoulders just being home again. A four week stint at the Fringe was just too much for us at this stage of our lives.
But I didn't make the most of the autumn heatwave. Instead I went to the supermarket as our cupboards were bare. It was so hot outside that all the fridges in the shop had special roll down fridge blinds pulled down over them so that you couldn't see what was in them. You could either peek round and try and grab what you needed (though some of the more sensitive rollers would shoot up anyway) or let the blinds roll up and then try to roll them down again. And some of them were easy to attach and some of the weren't. It added a whole new element of confusion, excitement and expertise to the supermarket shop. To give even more jeopardy they should have kicked you out if you caused a roller blind to shoot back up to the top.
Also it's one of the first signs of how the world will change thanks to global warming. One day all fridges will be like this and we'll just be blindly grabbing behind curtains and being forced to buy whatever we grab.
I thought I might have put on half a stone in Edinburgh thanks to doughnuts, crisps and takeaways, but luckily it's only about three pounds. And I think I have the resolve to get back to my healthier regime and take off this and the bit of weight I added in July.
Hey London, I am doing a crossover episode of RHLSTP with the Guilty Feminist next Saturday -
buy tickets here.
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