Hello,

Was wondering if anyone can help me here - I have been a lodger for the last 6 months, I pay bills as and when requested by the house owner. I'm due to move out so my landlady asked if I could get an estimate of the gas and electric bill so I could pay what I owed up to the leaving date. On calling with the meter reading, it turned out that no gas bill had been sent out by Southern Electric since August 2008! Maybe I should have noticed this but all the bills go to my landlady and it just didn't occur to me that she hadn't asked for gas money.

So now - she will be getting almost a years worth of gas bills in one go. I'm guessing she will not be amused...:-|do you think it's the fault of Southern Electric and therefore we should at least get a fair amount of time to repay the bills? I am a bit afraid of having to pay all this in one go, I guess it will be quite a bit of money.

Would appreciate any advice.