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

[mrsruffallo]

Why not just go to state school?
here

At least they didn't have to go and live in a council flat.
Or have they?

But in 2011 she was employing a live in housekeeper acording to one of her dull little articles - hardly smacks of being on the poverty line

Oh, she's the one who HAD to send her daughters to private school but her son was fine slumming it? I remember her.

Ever likely she is broke see here she had a live in housekeeper!

Anybody who can pay school fees for 3 children can afford to buy a house. The private school fees for three children alone would be higher than our household income.
I have no sympathy whatsoever that she can't afford the glamorous posh lifestyle that she would like to have and has handled her finances recklessly with all that remortgaging rather than living within her means.

Also I disapprove of state school being good enough for her son but not for her daughters.

Many people rent property as they can't afford to buy or haven't got the deposit money. It's hardly the worst thing in the world. If she is that desperate to buy a five bedroom house then move somewhere where the property is cheaper.

It's the self-pitying tone of the article that really grates on my nerves, like she is on the edge of tears at the rank injustice of life. Oh, the head hanging shame of living in a rented four bedroom, detached house in the home counties....

If she is privately educating all her kids, persumably she wants them all to go to university...? The school fees are going to be the least of her problems when faced with paying £9,000 p/a plus their living expenses for 4 kids other than by writing this tripe

I love these whine-fests, they always cheer me up!

Is she still paying school fees or has she done the sensible thing and sent the girls to what seems like a good state school?

Jericho, perhaps they should rent a house with swirly carpets and magnolia Walls then she could write another pointless article about how she slummed it with the underclass. It could be like a social experiment, it might be character building , you never know she might even get a documentary out of it.

What must her coffee morning chums think of her? They must be sniggering into their lattes.

It's her again. She and her husband have no dignity.

I might call social services and get those poor kids taken into care.

Hired a parenting guru last year!

Why isn't the housekeeper cleaning up the spilled juice and the crayon marks?

I expect it is only the thought of Sophie, the 29 year old French housekeeper, that keeps Poor Keith going.

Maybe her and the poor woman who's house got blown away during the tornado (including the floating walnut shelves! the tangerines vomited on the floor!) should get together and have a pity party.

You're a hard woman hazie. Swirly carpets have killed many a woman with less character than this brave little lady.

I do love, btw, the way they've made sure that shot of them in the flat shows their antique desk (or whatever it is, can't be arsed to look again) - just in case you thought their rental flat would make them look like Regular Poor People.

She'd have been better off with a financial guru!

Most people don't have 2000 pounds a month total income, never mind 2000 to spend on renting a nice house. That's four months mortgage payments for the average family.

She needs to rejoin the real world

Oh god that Shona woman is in so many "woe is me" mail articles; she was moaning the other week about how she regrets having her daughter's birth filmed for a documentary, moaning about falling out with her mother, moaning about how she looks. Moan moan moan moan moan

She's something else isn't she?!

We both went to private school and assumed ours would go too, but with four children and living in the SE of England, we can't afford to do it. So, they go to the excellent state schools here and we're happy with that. Yes we'd love a five bed house with land, but we'll just have to cope with the four beds that we do have until we can afford to move. Surely if you have one ounce of common sense you do what you CAN afford to do, not bankrupt yourself to do something that you can't afford, and the state options in leafy Surrey are somewhat different to an inner city 'sink school'. Haslemere must have one of the lowest crime rates in the country, and is hardly represents our diverse society does it?!

that woman's mad.
quite bonkers.

she doesn't need a huge house. she doesn't need to send her children to private school. If she wants to buy a house so much she should send her children to state school and save up their school fees. You can't have it all. stupid woman.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2012483/I-survive-live-housekeeper.

Perhaps if she sacked the live in housekeeper and did some cleaning herself she would be able to save up money for a deposit on a house?

Alright, who wants to bet that her next moanfest article will be about the bizatches on MN and how mean they are and how it meant she had to start daily psychotherapy in order to get over the trauma, and now has to use public transport because the combined costs of the following essentials: private school education for her girls, live in housekeeper and parenting guru, is putting a strain on their finances.

Keith will be in one of the pictures, at the back, looking glum and thinking how much easier and happier his life would have been if he's just married Cheryl the barmaid.

"...and is hardly representative of our diverse society is it?" is what I meant to say.

Surely they NEED seven bedrooms? I can't imagine how they're making do with four.

One each for each of the four children, one for the parents, one for Sophie the 29 year old French housekeeper, and a spare bedroom for guests. I don't think that's being unreasonable.

As it is, Sophie must be forced to share with the writer and the put-upon Keith.

I confess I enjoyed that childbirth documentary. It might have been because she spent a lot of the time vomiting and in pain.

When word got round that she worked in my building little groups of us would stare and her and giggle.