Echoes of Flavio's Ghost Dreaming

The saga with First Utility, the people who supply electricity and gas to most of this building and the ghost second customer account, continues.

I had received a rather worrying letter to the effect that I hadn't paid any bills at all since I moved here (this to that second account number; right name and address, slightly misspelled postcode)  and I started looking into this and wasting a fair amount of time on the phone to them as there had been also a problem with over-billing and possibly a case of mistaken meter being read, after which they credited my account for well over £400 (not admitting to anything, those companies never do, 'good will' blah, blah..), had an email from FU telling me that "the details in the  first account number were correct" (this is the one I knew about and paid every month) but the reading on the second account number were the correct ones.

I have now received yet another bill to that second account number now... now well over £1500 ‘overdue’ according to this. And the readings seem to be identical to those in the ‘real’ account number. More hassle in my future over this, no doubt. And I’m charged way more for the gas supply in this tiny 36m studio flat than we did at the old four bedroom, two level flat in KTR.. what gives?

After all the hassle to get the flat, when everything seems to be sorted out and cannot really back-off as have put all my money and a whole lot more into this, turns out the flat I'm buying is in a Camden council declared 'car-free zone' and they will not issue me with a resident's parking permit. This is major major hassle and apparently there is no appeal. The only thing I seem to be able to do is to rent somebody's drive -combat_kitten graciously sent me link to some people who do this locally, but they're a mile or so away from my flat, so I need to try and find something closer before going to these. It is also an expensive solution for a problem that shouldn't be there in the first place, I already live in the same parking 'zone' as the new flat. Any ideas, anybody? I'm afraid I'm not in a spirit for jokes today with this, be warned. Also waiting to see what next hassle or insurmountable obstacle turns up in this story...

It's been a horrible day. Ok, it's been a horrible couple of weeks. Ok, it can only get better from this point.

Still a few miracles to pull tomorrow (including some money miracles) and that should be it for a while.

In the meantime, read friends' pages (several pages thereof, I don't have much internet access on Tuesdays) and stuff -and sip that gin and tonic. Not too bad for now. Hope you all are well.