Finding A Tenner In Your Jeans

My Dear Princess and Dear Fellows,

If I believed in astrology then I would be blaming today on Saturn being in Uranus*. 

Or something.

That gives the wrong impression. Today was a "good day for money" as Russell Grant used to say.

It started with the news that the Kainga Ora contract has come through and it is for SIX months! So that's us financially secure until June. 

I was so pleased about this that I thought I'd check out how much I have in the current account. And the reason I wanted to know is that I owe the NZ inland revenue about twelve thousand dollars and wondered if I could pay part of it off.

So I logged into my bank account and saw something odd. The inland revenue had deposited THIRTEEN THOUSAND into my bank account. 

Why had they done that?

I logged onto their website to see what they had to say for themselves. Aha! There was an unread message.

It read something along the lines of:

"Dear Yourself,

Please send us your bank details, because we want to give you a refund of SEVENTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS".

Nothing about the fact that:

- They appear to have recalculated and cancelled the 12k debt.
- They appear to have given me ANOTHER refund for 13k. For something.

And I don't know how they were able to give me the 13k refund when they don't have my bank account details (except clearly, they do)**.

I am still at the "waiting for the other shoe to drop" stage. There must be some mistake, surely? 

Or maybe they'll do that thing, where they give me a REFUND with one hand, and a massive BILL on the other. (This has happened to me before).

I don't know. But for the moment I'm enjoying it. That could be a refurbished bathroom, right there.

As for Caro, she's shopping online.

S.

* Do you remember when that NASA probe went past Uranus, and all the newsreaders started pronouncing it, "Oo-rah-nus"? I remember Spitting Image did a sketch where they took the piss, and had rubber newsreaders referring to Oo-rah-nus and its largest moon, Be-yoom-hoe-ley. And then behind them was a picture of a moon with "Bumhole" written under it. 

** Oh, wait! I wonder if they have the bank account details for my COMPANY but that they don't know my company is ME? That sounds plausible.