Electricity update

Fair play to the electricity people in the end. They have been reasonable and we have reached an agreement. They have reissued the bill to start from the last meter reading they took that falls within the 2 year window now provided for under the new rules (bizarrely, it seems that they were taking regular meter readings throughout the period during which I was not being billed). This means they are going to charge me for about 16 months–worth of electricity, which is a damn site better than the 6 years during which I was not being billed. They have also given a 25% goodwill discount on that amount and agreed that payment be made in instalments (interest free) to acknowledge that the existence of arrears has resulted from an unusual situation not of my making.