Gone But Not Forgotten!

I was checking my UK online banking the other day when I discovered someone had credited my account with £250.

Now I wondered who was this kind donation was from, since I was not expecting the payment. Perhaps it was a birthday gift for my forthcoming birthday. Perhaps one of my Premium Bonds had come up, or could I have won the National Lottery. I quickly dismissed choices two and three, since Ernie never picks my number and if he did it would be reinvested and anyway I hadn't bought a lottery ticket. However, unlikely as the first option appeared, it was a vague possibility, always assuming someone had remembered my birthday.

Being an honest sort of person and a former detective I decided I could not just accept my windfall without further investigation. What was the strange source code written next to the payment, what did it mean. Quick as a flash, well as fast as my brain works these days, I recognised the first eight numbers and letters, it was my UK National Insurance number followed by DWP WFP.

Perhaps, I reflected, that my number was indeed up and that the UK Government had chosen me for recycling, the payment being compensation for MTF before I was added to the Soylent Green. But no hang on a minute, DWP, Department of Works and Pensions. Now I was on a roll, barely able to contain myself, WFP, I had to be, yes it was, a Winter Fuel Payment!

Yes the good old Labour Government had paid me the annual "bonus" that UK residents over the age of 60 receive to help them with their Winter fuel bills!

Now I know there is talk of Global Warming, but do they know something about the climate in Thailand that I don't?

Have a good week.