taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

After more false assurances and then being ignored by the landlord I emailed EDF myself and laid out the situation. They told me they'd got my name from a credit check since no one had claimed the account, but they would put it in the landlord's name instead. Good I thought we're getting somewhere

He always said he was trying to pay but had trouble setting up the account with EDF and I was like yeah yeah bullshit until eventually he paid it off in May. Until this point the bills had been addressed to "the occupier". But then they started coming in MY name personally. What the fuck, I thought

Well they might be in third place behind my landlord and the landlord before that. Thanks to the combined incompetence of all three of them there's this been this electricity account which the landlord should have been paying but wasn't, racking up charges for months despite me chasing him about it

EDF (the energy company not the people who shoot the giant ants) really are the most incompetent shower of wankers going

having some goose wine

Got one last batch from Queer Brewing before they close. Also merch

BUT. However. I do have a secret weapon which I'm giving more consideration to lately and that is the great city of Kingston upon Hull
It's where I went to uni & despite its bad rep it DOES have nice bits, I know where they are, and houses are very cheap
So I could do it.. I could go back to Hull..

I really liked both Leeds and Liverpool city centres themselves but I think Liverpool edges it in terms of like, decent areas to actually live in with affordable houses
The immediate outskirts of Leeds seem to have not much going on & while there are good places further out they seem to be expensive

Manchester is great but it's getting expensive these days... also all my family lives around there and I'm sorry I love them but I don't want to be TOO close
i haven't ruled Manchester out anyway but i'm casting my net out to other northern places, this is why I visited Leeds and Liverpool last year

for a bit of context - I'm from somewhere near Manchester, moved to London 15 years ago for work & have stayed here ever since. Now my work is remote so I can live anywhere. And I've saved enough for a deposit on a house but definitely not a London house. So I probably want to fuck back off up north

giving serious thought to moving out of London again