:cuddles coffee:

Had first vaguely decent night's sleep on a work night for ages (ie, nearly 7 hours) and then got to work, and found the coffee jug had disappeared. had not found it by the end of the day. When i find who has hidden it, there will be hell to pay. Found out how much I rely on caffeine to keep me going and get through my work even with sleep by the way I was flagging at 11am. After that, if it wasn't the feeling like I was trying to wade through treacle (which is more a friday feeling resulting from five nights of less than six hours sleep each night), it was the point where I nearly dropped off. Robin and me were guzzling biscuits every ten minutes, just to keep going. Not including the cans of irn bru (him) and the can of ginger beer (me).

oh. fuck.

Landlord called last weekend to say he had to increase the rent due to his mortgages. contract's coming up for renewal.

Just had the email from him with how much he wants to increase it to.

I currently pay £400/month, not including bills and council tax. The bigger two rooms (two small, two big - there's 4 of us) pay 450.

So that's £1700/month in total.

He wants to increase it to £2400.

Which is... FUCK. At the very least £550 for the smaller rooms. For an okay-ish council flat with not wonderful furnishings/kitchen/bathroom and a lounge. I don't know who he thinks is going to pay that much. I doubt any of us can afford that. Has he seen the rest of the inhabitants of this place? It's council flats. Families on not very high wages. Students. Lots of immigrant families. (and by this I mean a lot of the parents don't speak much english but the kids do) Who the hell does he think that can afford those prices is going to choose to live there?

And... oh fuck. I don't know where I can find anything within my price range near work. (work being off goodge street, zone 1) It needs to be near-ish work, zone 2, due to transport fees (and stress levels). I need a bloody lounge. There's nothing on gumtree whatsoever.

FUCK.