First of all, the Banking Ombudsman emailed to say they had upheld our complaint against a high street banking chain and would be asking for substantial compensation to be paid to us for the hassle we had suffered. I was so happy, because the effort in getting to that point had been immense.
Then, I went to the allotment and continued digging my metre-wide raspberry patch, which is full of twitch. In the two hours I spent there, I barely cleared a square metre. It was utterly exhausting, pulling out masses of tangled roots in the biting cold, albeit in bright sunshine. My hands were frozen by the end.
But when I stood back and admired my work, I think I gained a greater degree of satisfaction than I had earlier in the day when learning the news about my victory. There is something about winning back soil for cultivation that goes beyond anything rational.
So, despite rabidly slow progress, I think I preferred my achievements at the allotments to that of actually beating an intransigent banking group
