The last four weeks have been rather expensive! After my episode of heat exhaustion, ambulance attendance and so on, I bought an air conditioner. £300, but as we now have (another) heatwave, with air temperatures around 32 or 33C, worth every penny: it keeps the bedroom (which even with curtains closed has considerable solar heat gain) to a tolerable 25C.
Then, a standing ebay search (that I’ve had going for at least two years) finally came up with a perfect cupboard to go inside the front door to accommodate the Brompton folding bike. That was £200, and arrived yesterday. Also yesterday, the trackpoint/cursor problem on my Thinkpad got intractable, so I’ve ordered a Thinkpad L13 … another £175. And there was my share of the Council Tax on Green Mount, at around £180. All of which has been an un-budgeted sum of around £850. All necessary, but savings have gone down rather than up this month! 
