Bloody internet banking.

Charlie gets Child Tax Credit paid into her account every Friday, which pays the Nursery fees and ensures we have enough aside to do the weekly grocery shopping. Lloyds online banking updates its records at around 11pm, which means that the money shows up sometime before midnight and if we ned some cash first thing, I can pop to the bank half a mile away and draw it out before bed.

Usually.

Tonight has been different. It's 1:30 and still no sign of it. Which means one of two things:

1) Lloyds has sneakily changed the time of it's system update or
2) The Inland Revenue people have fucked up

So in the hope that it's number 1, I'm in for a late night, refreshing the account balance page in the hope that it's not number 2, which would suck and which would mean I have to walk Bethan to nursery - probably in the pissing rain - in the morning, then phone round the family for a loan so we can eat on Sunday.

Grr, Boo, Hiss and bollocks!

On a lighter note, Mark and Ellen have chosen today to get married. Here's wishing them the best of luck and a long, happy marriage!

Mark's brother Graham is doing the DJing and has dissappointingly turned down my suggestion of playing "Agadoo" and Squeeze's "Up the Junction". Can't think why.

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Update @ 3:45am: Finally Lloyds gets its finger out. Phew!

I can go to sleep now...