Ref Nik can i ask why this " but I'm always conscious it may well be my last punt and I want my last punt to be with someone like Nicoletta," i hope you are not about to go to a better place or is your pencil out of lead ?
Or just no £££
To be honest it's a combination of all three.
Like all of us I'm not getting any younger and my urge to punt has diminished considerably. This is perhaps fortunate, as having taken early retirement last year and having blown two lumps sums, much of it with our friends the online bookies, I am in the worst financial predicament of my life. I did however at least manage to clear my debts and get four London punting trips out of it between September and December.
I have stopped gambling this year. Went five weeks without a problem, but a couple of serious lapses in recent weeks was all it took to put me back in financial trouble. Maybe I should have gone for a punt instead a couple of weeks ago? I have now self excluded for life from every single one of them.
I did get some decent paid zero hours contract temporary work for four days a week from the beginning of the year which I was told may last until the summer, however I was rather unexpectedly finished on Friday. Consequently until and unless I get something else my pension just about covers my outgoings with absolutely nothing left over for luxuries.
In the past few years I've gone from owning a mortgage free property to paying an expensive rent (which they've just wacked up again from April) every month. This is as a result of following the myths perpetuated by the bookmakers.
I will get another small pension in just under four years to supplement my existing one, however I have already had the lump sums from both.
In the meantime I'm off to the housing benefits office tomorrow before I end up on the street.
