Friday, May 25, 2007

Sounds itchy!

Back in March, in response to a Parliamentary Question, the Ministry of Defence said that it had spent £4,702.52 on "maintenance" for the property of the General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland, who I think is Major General Phillip Trousdell unless someone can tell me otherwise.

Now I'm not going to moan about the amount of money spent, just under five grand isn't a lot in a year for generally maintaining a property. However, the MoD has now kindly provided a break down of the work that was included under the general title of maintenance and I couldn't help but giggle.

As you'd expect there's the usual stuff in the list, clearing guttering and downpipes to repairing leaks to buying a new dishwasher (an essential item in my opinion). Then, as you look down the list, there's £100 to treat "flea infestation"? I do hope it was his pet's fault!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder what the cost to us taxpayers will be to re-decorate No. 11 Downing Street for it's next occuppier?

Anonymous said...

Dizz you must have worked in offices ,getting under the desks ,to pull a network cable or some mains bits,and an hour later your scratching your ankles like mad ,bitten by dog/cat/anything fleas ,tell da managment,they call in da flea man,it's expensive ,the military arn't immune.

Anonymous said...

Fleas? Is this code for sweeping for bugs?