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To have no sympathy for a family that overstretch themselves to pay school fees?

417 replies

mrsruffallo · 23/02/2012 12:18

Why not just go to state school?
here

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KeepingAwayFromTheJoneses · 23/02/2012 17:18

What did she say about her mother?

GinSlinger · 23/02/2012 17:20

Eye know that eye shouldn't make nasty remarks about someone's unfortunate appearance. So eye won't.

Katiekitty · 23/02/2012 17:22

Anyone got a link for ye olde MN Cupcake Redemption thread?
Could do with a laugh

ChaoticAngel · 23/02/2012 17:23

Fuzz you and me both. I now know where I've gone wrong with my life...I didn't write crap for the Daily Fail.

Heswall · 23/02/2012 17:28

I would pay the mortgage before school fees, but school fees before anything because those two things offer children what they need most, stability.
I have been saying for 10 years though if you do not have a years fees set aside before you sign up for private education then you cannot afford it.
I wish the head teachers would spell this out at the open days, once you're in it's damned hard to get out.

Hulababy · 23/02/2012 17:36

Not sure, some article about having had a happy childhood but why she has now disowned her parents apparently

limitedperiodonly · 23/02/2012 17:38

I don't believe they ever lived in that house.

They just waited until the owners went out and stood in front of it.

The clue is the shot of her in the pink coat standing at the boundary. That tells me that the picture desk wanted another shot but when she went back the people were in.

squeakytoy · 23/02/2012 17:40

Shona Sibary is a compulsive liar. Each article she writes contradicts the last, and I just knew this would be about her before I even started reading it.

She makes Liz Jones seem reasonably normal.

JerichoStarQuilt · 23/02/2012 17:41

Grin at limitedperiod.

I would love that to be true.

PeanutButterChocolate · 23/02/2012 17:43

At least La Liz doesn't have children to inflict her madness upon. It's all right to be "All Me" all the time if it really is just you. Beyond selfish if you have a family and a Poor Keith who will be utterly humiliated by your inane ramblings.

I wondered about Dolly too. Where will she end up?

OriginalJamie · 23/02/2012 17:44

OMG at her lack of FB security. Stupid woman.

limitedperiodonly · 23/02/2012 17:44

"Having children is all that holds my marriage together," says Shona

I know it's been said, but poor old Keith. The least she could have said was that all that holds her marriage together is his enormous cock.

limitedperiodonly · 23/02/2012 17:48

"Not unless she did a Liz Jones and like, they did it twice, once with a condom, and she quickly shoved the condom in the freezer and then used the contents for the next three kids?"

I'm really concerned now in case the elder kids ever went to the freezer for a Mini Milk.

HexagonalQueenOfTheSummer · 23/02/2012 17:49

Looking at the wedding pic on the article where she is moaning about being ugly, does anyone else think poor old Keith has really deteriorated looks-wise in just 13 years?

manicinsomniac · 23/02/2012 17:51

I'm not sure how she thinks she can disguise the fact that they're struggling financially (as she says she does at school events) when she writes about it for the Daily Fail, which is quite likely the "newspaper" of choice for the other parents!

Not in a PRIVATE school dahling! Wink Nobody in the indepependent school where I work would ever soil their hands with a common tabloid! If you don't read the telegraph or the guardian you are NOBODY!

(despite the sarcastic mockery I do actually agree with the parents and am a parent there as well as a teacher, I'm not just being a bitch!)

I would have sympathy with the family if we were friends and just talking about it (everyone has problems, they don't need to be comparatively awful for me to feel for them) but I don't have sympathy with the way they are posting their story (which really isn't that bad!) all over the internet. What's wrong with renting anyway? I doubt I'll ever buy, I don't see the point.

Think it's important to remember that she's a paid writer though - it could be mostly a work of fiction.

PeanutButterChocolate · 23/02/2012 17:51

Am vair jealous of her dogs though (see "I Lied to Dog Rescue" article). They are beautiful Envy

Groovee · 23/02/2012 17:53

This woman having had a look at her articles, needs to take responsibility for her actions and decisions when she made them instead of blaming everyone else.

ZZZenAgain · 23/02/2012 17:53

well.... really don't know what to say about this one.

Just wondering how much the Daily Mail is paying for an article like that. I could bash them out over my morning coffee. How much is in it for me?

PeanutButterChocolate · 23/02/2012 17:54

"...went to the freezer for a Mini Milk". Hahahahahaha!

HQOTS- I actually thought middle-aged Keith was a different man. He doesn't look anything like newlywed Keith.

charlearose · 23/02/2012 17:55

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anniedunne · 23/02/2012 17:57

Good god. This time yesterday I was blissfully unaware of the existence of Shona Thingummy and now I have way more information about her and her family than I will ever need. Poor children and poor Keith.

Can you imagine being on a PTA committee with her !?

TeWihara · 23/02/2012 18:11

Didn't someone else write an article about how she is the daily mail's salaried troll, whose only job is to piss everyone on the internet off and get more hits...

(or possibly it's DHs theory)

Agincourt · 23/02/2012 18:17

I think it is common knowledge amongst journo types that she is actually Liz Jones secret love child

LadySybilDeChocolate · 23/02/2012 19:02

Where is that house?

MarthasHarbour · 23/02/2012 19:13

Oh yes I also thought Poor Keith has lost his looks somewhat. Although he has probably taken to the drink to block out having sex to live with her high demands.

I wonder what she did to piss her mother off, but looking at her FB page i did snigger at Aunty Margot applauding her 'ugly' Daily Mail feature when all her friends were telling her she was being too harsh.