One thing I've learnt from collating my
2015/16 Tax Return is that receiving a chiropractic treatment costs the same as
a train to Kettering.
Both services come in at £37.00, which
isn't cheap, particularly when one leaves you in incredible physical discomfort
and anguish and the other is a chiropractor appointment. But which was the most
indispensable? I definitely gained more from having my bad back looked at, as
the trip to Kettering was for a gig that, while in a lovely building (a converted bookshop that doubled as a music venue, with guitars, mandolins and
ukuleles on the walls), the show itself was very disorganised. It was run by a
couple of secondary school students with their parents, for which I didn't get
my expenses recouped and came out the other side feeling like the elephant in
the room, because I wasn’t a teenager; I tend to walk into these things (when I don't catch the train).
It could have been worse. That £37
ticket could easily have cost twice as much, as it took booking it far in
advance and making sure I boarded a specific train there and back to avoid
paying an even more extortionate amount. All this to get to Kettering,
which isn't the most glamorous of destinations. I've paid less to get to the
Netherlands, Amsterdamn it.