Some of you will know the ongoing saga with the magazine publishers from the ragingest pits of hell who owed me shedloads of money from work undertaken last year. A portion of the outstanding money was owed from work published in July. That's July 2006. And it was submitted in May.

I believe that the Oxford English Dictionary team are considering using "payment from said magazine publishers" as the new definition of the phrase "like getting blood from a stone".

However.

After numerous invoices, invoice reminders, emails, phone calls, texts, letters, promises, broken promises, prevarications, bullshit, astounding arrogance, outright lies and finally the threat of court action by the NUJ, I can finally annouce the following:

1. The said magazine publishers now hate me.
2. I couldn't give a fuck about point number one.
3. The outstanding money has been transferred and will be accessible from my account tomorrow morning.

I WIN!!