I remember at secondary school we used to run a sweepstake on the result. 10p entry. Quite a lot of dinner money was lost that way. If you drew Dastardly’s Mean Machine it wasn’t worth watching.
Are the flats a block of four? Perhaps suggest that if he wants to be involved then he is responsible for 25% of the bill. If they are leasehold, he may well be anyway.
I never had any such problem even when the lump sum went in. It seems strange that a bank doesn’t know of these organisations. Or perhaps it knows something about the Teacher’s Pensions and the Government’s Dept of Work and Pensions that we don’t.
Ah yes, the only things known to man than can rattle your trouser legs* in the same way as standing next to a Deltic as it pulls away can. Both are wonderful.
*I guess it will be the same for skirts. I’ve never tried.