Condolences dearie.
Beware, Caity. I once held a plumber hostage in my attic!
We had moved house and had a leaky radiator and our usual odd-job guy wasn't picking up his cellphone so we phoned one of those emergency plumbers out of the Yellow Pages. He was proceeding to drain out cold water tank when he informed us that he had a £60 call out charge and £60 per hour thereafter (with the first 60 coming one minute after he had been called out - swine).
I 'removed' his ladder and only put it back when he told us he wouldn't charge any more than £60.
The radiator didn't get fixed until our usual guy got back the next day but I felt extremely satisfied... /proud
In breaking news: I had a doctor's appointment this afternoon and he told me that, on top of the other toot, I've got advanced arthritis! No mere ordinary arthritis that the plebs get but the groovy advanced stuff!
It now makes sense that I've been rougher than usual these past few months, but at least I've got an 'Itis'. Not everyone can say that. /double proud