12 October 2005
Landlord at the gate
My rent is due.
If I pay in the next two weeks then I get a £4 discount and have to stump up only £20 for the year. It’s such a piddlingly small amount – that much money doesn’t even cover two days’ train travel to work in Leicester.
I should get my finger out and actually pay it, shouldn’t I?
Before I end up being evicted.
Filed under: Plot politics — Clare @ 6:08 pm
Ooh! I was in Leicester recently. No idea where – it was just a an in-and-out job for a big Indian wedding we were invited to. That’s all. No story really. As you were.
(And yes, you best pay up. Imagine the shame of being evicted from the allotments – the other holders probably make debtors run the gauntlet of a potato pelting or some kind of intrusion with a courgette
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(12.10.05 @ 6:45 pm)
Death by slug for bad debtors
(12.10.05 @ 11:03 pm)
My annual rent is £6.05 a year. Seriously. A couple of years back I argued it should be tripled to a whopping £18 on the grounds that the current rent was insulting to the value of what renters were getting, but I was voted down ….
I know allotments will never break even on the rental income but charges such a small amount strikes me as derisory.
(13.10.05 @ 1:35 pm)
£6.05??!! That’s unbelievable. What do they do with the 5p?
(13.10.05 @ 3:48 pm)
Well that was a 10% increase on the previous year … at this rate it’ll be, oooh, £7 before you know it! Oh, and there’s a discount on that £6.05 for the retired/unwaged …
I tried to point out that you could hardly buy a takeaway curry for that amount …
(14.10.05 @ 11:36 am)