Exactly 18 weeks to go - - Budgeting

Monday night in a noisy Santiago, which I've just discovered is Pleonasm (good job H). I've got some basil-bread baking next to me and my bike has a puncture which resisted my attempts to patch it up and I think I'll have to buy a new bloody inner tube.
   Now that I'm on a budget the world suddenly seems terribly expensive. I've never been much of a saver; Being a single man with simple tastes has usually kept my expenses low enough for me not to worry about getting to the end of the month. However, now that money is at a premium, each time I have to open my wallet is like a punch in the stomach. I am the salmon swimming upstream in a river of unforeseen expenses. Anyhoo, As Curtis Mayfield correctly realised, you gotta keep on keeping on. I hope a bear doesn't eat me.

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