Groan!

November 4th, 2006

My landlady, on receiving my former rent cheques, decided not to bank them until a few days ago. That wouldn’t have caused any big problems, if I had given them recently, but she receieved some of them weeks ago, and some of them months ago. It also wouldn’t have caused problems had she warned me that she was about to bank them at this entirely random time, and given me time to ensure that the money was in my account. Thus, when she finally decided to bank them, there was not actually enough money in my account. This cost me £76 in bank fees because two of them bounced. Then, on discovering that two of them bounced, she decided to try again to bank them. Again, this cost me another £76 in bank fees. When the problem is that I don’t have enough money to put that money in their account, that’s quite a significant problem.
Thus, I have no money in my account until I receive a gift from my church, and I’ve only chased them up recently because it was only recently that it occured to me that the combination of my landlady hadn’t banked any of my cheques and thus I’d have to pay them all in one go at some random time, and there being no evidence (despite my queries) that my church was in the process of paying me the money they promised, was quite a damaging combination.

Thus I really don’t have a clue how I’m going to eat for the next few days - or maybe weeks, depending on how soon St Johns get their act together. And thus I’d really covet the prayers of anyone reading this.