I THOUGHT you might like to know that I've decided to donate my body. No, not to medical science, but to South West Water.
The reason being that they are determined to bleed me dry, so they might as well have the last bit of sap left in me.
Call me a 'Drama Queen' if you like, but when you are a pensioner one has to watch where every penny goes.
I used to pay my water bill by direct debit, that was until they kept trying to put the payment up.
I decided to pay quarterly but still by direct debit. The latest bill has just arrived, to be paid on August 2.
As the last one was paid on June 1, I make that two months between bills. Needless to say I have been on the phone and the young man I spoke to seems to think that it's 84 days since the last bill. Now, it might have been 52 years since I left school, but I still only make it 64 days.
What really hurts is being charged £90 when there are only two people in the house. Shower only — can't remember the last time we used the bath! And that's just for two months' use.
Then, of course, there might be a few 'fat cats' within South West Water who want cream on it!
David Luckhurst
Crocken Tor Road
Okehampton