The arithmetic

Ten minutes then I am asleep.

Pausing for two months. Not a failure, not a moral event, just a month where the money is not there.

Worked out the arithmetic in public and found it steadying.

Told my partner what it actually costs. That conversation was overdue by about four months.

Price went up mid-year and I had a very unglamorous evening with a calculator and a cup of tea.

Skint but going.