Playing Catch-Up IV

Friday passed relatively peacefully apart from the visit from the insurance assessor. Doug turned up unexpectedly to act as a witness for me. But to be honest, he made the whole thing look rather dodgy. 'My goodness, Doug, what are you doing here?' At one point the assessor asked me how the fire started. How in Hades should I know? I felt like telling him I'd nipped up there and started the fire myself just to get new stuff. Instead I said (demurely), 'I have my suspicions but to voice them would leave me open to accusations of slander* so I'd best keep them to myself.'

*as opposed to libel on here!