We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "sweetheart" hotmail.com saying
something like:

Sorry to be a pain.
Not at all.
26 quid a month doesn't equal what you quoted p/a, did you mean per
week?
Even so, it's not bad for all-in cost.
Your husband is a miser, it seems to me.
Ditch the skinflint and go weave baskets by the sea in a warm country.