Deciding to give up

I am still plugging away through my very overdue accounts from last year and have now completed nine months -- but for the last two months I have been working on, the recorded cash expenditure has quite definitely exceeded the amount of cash withdrawn from my account (by a few pounds at a time), and at this lapse of time I have absolutely no means of working out where the extra money to fund this spending can have come from -- I have had to simply give up on attempting to balance my accounts for the period in question. ( Read more... )

I have also made the decision to give up on my pot of parsley, which has never been healthy enough to actually use in cooking and which is just dwindling year on year. Even the 'new' parsley has all died, one plant at a time, and the much bigger 'old' parsley proved, when I finally pulled it up, to have virtually no root on it. It clearly just doesn't like the growing conditions.

And I have ripped a pair of pyjama trousers very convincingly across the seat -- there is no point on earth in trying to mend those. As it happens I have rather more (non-matching) pyjama trousers than jackets, since to my perplexity it was the jackets that kept ripping... so at least this evens things up a bit :-)