Rehab

Mercury retrograde in Aries isn't mucking about!  Every blessed thing has had to be done twice this week - a state of affairs I could have done without with two weeks left till moving day. Monday was the shiner; with retro Mercury squaring natal Uranus, all hell broke loose! Because the house is a tip with half packed boxes and general disorder everywhere, the Dyson was left unstabled at the top of the stairs where poor Mr Leo in his nocturnal stumblings stubbed his little toe. I don't think it's broken but the Royal Toe started Monday as black as your hat.  Later in the day smoke emitting from under the bonnet revealed a minor but annoying fuel leak. With diesel fast approaching the price of champagne, that needed fixing at once. Meanwhile, at home I  was the recipient of a particularly nasty phishing scam that got past my excellent security disguised as a programme and embedded itself like a limpet to my system. I won't even waste energy cursing the ***holes that do this to people - especially the poor things who fall for the scam and reveal their bank details to the fake microsoft thieves. Unresponsive to standard malware removal, the whole system had to be backed up and restored, an expense too far really with all the odds and ends of house removal to pay for. Anyway, back it is now, clean as a newborn and instead of packing boxes I'm reloading apps with an internet connection that completely drops out  as often as every three minutes and poking around in folders trying to find things. Normally I quite enjoy a bit of this but with contracts to terminate (ISP!) and stuff for the new house to arrange, it's really surplus to requirements just at the moment.
  A visit to the local housing benefit department did nothing to reassure. The modest but much needed amount of expected housing benefit predicted by their online calculator (which speaks with forked tongue) failed to materialise when shown the harsh light of day. After a sleepless night during which Mr Leo and I temporarily lost faith in the whole enterprise, I flailed about trying to find alternative and cheaper accomodation. Fortunately this wore off by teatime and we are again trusting in the universe, albeit with some extra hours on an already busy working schedule.   Looking forward to a more restful weekend; burgeoning plants are taking over the back yard and slugs may be eating my lettuce as I write - I shouldn't be here at all really but, hell - you have to get it off your chest sometimes don't you?