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national economy and spent on lottery tickets. Animal
sanctuaries of all types began to suffer from dwindling funds
and support as the lottery simply swelled and swelled. This
has continued every week since, although from time to time we
hear that the Lottery people are concerned that spending has
dropped a little, perhaps to £110,000,000 per week. The
Lottery money does find some good causes from time to time
but no thought has ever been given to what happened to those
places all over Britain where the general public spent their
“spare” cash previously!
Our income had dropped like a stone through lack of
visitors and was going to total a loss of over £38,000 in the 18
months following the beginning of the Lottery. We had few
assets and our accountant told us we were insolvent but HE
still wanted his pound of flesh!

A TIME OF TRIAL
Our bank were trying to foreclose on our mortgage because
it had not been paid for over six months, we owed huge
amounts to our feed merchant and vet as well as countless
smaller suppliers.
I was about to fight a small claims court injunction brought
by the firm who had supplied the second-hand portacabin we
were using to store our harness after the burglary in 1992
when we had lost all the good antique harness.
I had originally agreed to pay the portacabin owner so
much a month but now could not. I had also originally agreed
to pay them interest for the term of the ‘private’ finance. Now
because I was in arrears, they decided they would not wait for
our fortunes to improve and launched a court action to get all
their money at once.
I am quite good in court, (having by now had several
chances to practice); I explained all our circumstances and the
terms of our original agreement. The court made an order that
we should pay a fixed amount and at a rate we could afford. In

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