In dire need of chocolate. Just on my way out to work today and dad calls, saying he's had the factor (who administers the tenement building where my Glasgow flat is) had called up because the neighbour downstairs is claiming there are insects coming from our flat, and he's going to kick the door in to let Environmental Health in. So called environmental health and they say they don't even deal with that sort of thing any more, it had to be a private company he dealt with, if anything, but at any rate, I've had to cancel shifts on Sat and Sun and book a flight, costing 19,000Kc, to get across to Glasgow. Neighbour (who is a landlord for lots of flats in the building and tried to bully us into selling a while ago, and we think this is the same thing really) hadn't given the factor a valid phone number so no one could contact him. Finally got through via email, and I think he got a bit of a fright that it wasn't some daft old woman or some silly girl who responded, but I'm still not looking forward to this. I need to clear the flat anyway before I sell it so I've told him I'm doing this at the weekend, then getting the industrial cleaners / decorators in hopefully next week. Surely that, if there is any infestation, which I doubt, should be satisfactory, right? And I made a point of phoning the factor and EH so there is a record of me having been in touch, it's not like they can't get hold of anyone to arrange access, so surely no one can actually break the door down, not without a warrant and then they'd have to show the courts that they couldn't get in any other way, I think.
So stressed now, but I think I've done all I can. Will have to go shopping in Glasgow for a couple of hours just to cheer myself up!
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