Landlord's received Utility bill for 43p!

[Sorrel]

Iv just been sent a utility bill for an interim period between tenancys, a total of 17 days.

Electricity useage charge came in at £0.43p and they want me to make arrangements to pay it!

Anyone beat that?

[jeffrey]

Do they insist on CHAPS, or will they accept a cheque?

[Sorrel]

God knows, id like to pay it by which ever one costs them the most in fees!

I told them id post them the cash and I got a stern telling off from the lady on the phone, until she realised how much it was for.

[jeffrey]

God knows, id like to pay it by which ever one costs them the most in fees!

I told them id post them the cash and I got a stern telling off from the lady on the phone, until she realised how much it was for.
In that case, tell them that you can't afford it all in one go; can you pay by instalments?

[jeffrey]

Iv just been sent a utility bill for an interim period between tenancys, a total of 17 days.

Electricity useage charge came in at £0.43p and they want me to make arrangements to pay it!
It's probably a penalty for:
a. mis-spelling "I've", "tenancies", and "usage"; or
b. using £ and p together- incorrect, as it should read either:
i. £0.43; or
ii. 43p.

[tenant29]

Mis-spelling appears everywhere these days and it seems to be the consequences of (1) mistaken teaching approach (2) replacing good grammar schools by comprehensive schools. (3) lack of respect for teachers.

[Sorrel]

Mis-spelling appears everywhere these days and it seems to be the consequences of (1) mistaken teaching approach (2) replacing good grammar schools by comprehensive schools. (3) lack of respect for teachers.

Or me not caring...

[mind the gap]

Mis-spelling appears everywhere these days and it seems to be the consequences of (1) mistaken teaching approach (2) replacing good grammar schools by comprehensive schools. (3) lack of respect for teachers.

(1) Yes, probably
(2) No, all grammar schools did was to educate the few. The secondary moderns which most children attended, did not produce good spellers either. The top stream pupils in comprehensives spell just as well or badly as their old counterparts in grammars.
(3) Possibly, but it's more a case of a lack of respect for/interest in the formal conventions of their own language, whether spoken or written. If you don't believe it MATTERS whether you speak or write in a standard way when the situation requires, then you probably won't, and it will take more than a teacher you respect to persuade you otherwise. If you think it's acceptable to use non-standard - some would say 'sloppy', but I'm being deliberately non-judgemental here - English vocabulary/grammar/punctuation/spelling in an internet forum, then you probably will. If you think it's a formal enough context to require the conventions of standard written English, and care enough, then you'll probably use those.

[Sorrel]

My father was head of English and Drama and my mother a special educational needs teacher. I probably had the best upbringing in relation to grammar, spelling etc.

However I am sure that I have brought this up before, this is a internet forum to help Landlords/Tenants etc not a spelling competition. Someone looking on this forum is not going to look at advice with a spelling mistake and say ' oh I’m not going to listen to him he spelt a word wrong'.

They might however look upon the people who pick up every spelling mistake as anal retentive.

Sometimes I feel more persecuted that the Daily Mail reading Nazi drug dealing prostitutes.

Oh and one more reason, I have a busy day, I have a lot of letters to right and a lot of tenants to annoy me, I sometimes don’t sleep at night and therefore I don’t care if I spell something wrong on this website!

...as you can tell I didn’t sleep last night and I bet I’ve got a bleedin spelling mistake in here somewhere

[mind the gap]

Yes but at least you know the words to cool songs like 'A Life on the Ocean Waves'. That is a more useful skill, some would say.

I can recommend watching 'Scooby Doo' repeats at 4 am as a cure for insomnia.

[jeffrey]

I guess that Utility Bill, the thread heading, is:
a. a ScobyDoo character;
b. a midfield footballer able to play in most positions; or
c. more legislation to make consumers' lives a misery: see http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=12909.