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Tuesday 14th August - Keeping On Keeping On, Metorite Storms & Austrailian Cousins

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Posted by: knightrider45 Tuesday 14th August 2007, 7:31pm
Last edited 14/08/2007 7:31pm by knightrider45

I'm glad I listed everything down yesterday that I'm expected to pay out for my normal month. I still can't work out how other people manage with just one job .

I know I can't. I've just had a letter from the mortgage company over the last few days, giving me 7 days to clear all the arrears otherwise we'll be getting solicitors letters.

Well, the solicitors are just having to write to me. There's nothing I can do. The extra payments this month of £200 for the heating oil (which also heats all the hot water in the house) and the £250 poll tax money have all had to come out of this months mortgage payment.

So, now I can't pay the mortgage. Again. I've only got just over £300 against the £865 paymen they want from me.

Financial life just stinks at the moment, and I can't see the way forward.

I've just finished my shift of 8 nights, or 96 hours, I'm off tonight, and back at work at 7am in the morning for a 12 hour dayshift, one of four my company are forcing me to work every month.

Then, I'm on Thursday & Friday night shifts on overtime.Thats 132 hours I've worked over 2 weeks, not bad considering the average working week is now 37 hours is it?

And it's still not enough.

I overslept today simply because I'm so tired, getting up 2 and a half hours late, so todays gone bang as well.

Ah well, I'll just keep on keeping on.

Meteorite Storm

As I was working all night Monday night, I made sure I was outside from half past one to take in this great spectacle as the peak of the storm was supposed to be 2 O'clock. I worked out where the East side of my work place was, and ended up facing the River Ouse.

I saw the first one at quarter to two,a brilliant, strong, shooting star which started it's journey somewhere behind me, came into view as it passed over me, and was visible for about 2 minutes as it made it's way across the sky.

Then there were two little, weak shooting stars before 2am, and then, at the storms peak, absolutely nothing.

Not sure what happened, buy having read last nights EDP, the peak of the storm was 3am, not 2am as reported by the Express. So, "acting on Information Received" didn't work this time.

Australian Visitors

The visitors landed, slightly late, at Birmingham Airport on Sunday, and my wife's now happy as her cousins, who she's never met before, and only found through Genes Reunited, are staying with us.

There follows a brief period of family re-unitedness (?), the Australian couple meeting their English side of the family as the lady cousin's father was shipped out to Austrailia as a child from the workhouse in London, and not allowed to be repatriated here after reaching 21, eventually dying over there some years ago.

Its a new, exciting chapter in both my wife's and her cousins life, and I can genuinely feel my wifes excitement. It is certainly a once in a life time thing. I've got a week off starting from 7am Saturday morning, so I'll be joining in the excitement with them.

And getting a long overdue rest as well.

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