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

[mrsruffallo]

Why not just go to state school?
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Dunno MrsRuffalo but Keith must have been sorely tempted to dig a double burial plot in the back garden.

"So she hired a parenting guru to help sort out her unruly children whislt at the same time arguing that sending her dds to private school means they have better manners???"

Excellent point, scrappydappydoo!

Poor Keith, he was so close to getting free, and then .. One week. Poor dude

Do you think Bono would get on board for the Keith appeal? We'll also need some long term plans for her children as well.

I just read the second link you posted OP, I feel so sorry for little Monty!! He gets to go to state school, reads to an adults at school only once a week, shock horror!!!! Oh but because he doesn't know what he is missing, its okay that his sisters go to private and he doesn't.

The woman needs to see a therapist.

They could go in a witness protection programme.

They'd have to have plastic surgery which would be a shame for the kids because they're sweet-looking but a new life and a new face would be win-win for Keith.

Well they were a bit stupid, weren't they?

I wonder what they did with the dog too.

Is burying large dead animals in one's grounds one of the advantages of private ownership? Would they have given a shit even told the new owner if they had been able to move to an even bigger house in London?

Oh, should rtft

I've been weeping with laughter at some of the comments here.

Wonder if journalists read mn threads about them?

Reading that article makes me feel like the editorial team on the DM live in a parallel universe to the one I live in.

They did move the girls back to the local state school, but Florence had to sit on a manky rug at carpet time and there were 30 kids in the class. So she moved them back to a proper school.
Honestly, I don't know how my kids are surviving at their inner city primary - the carpet is even mankier and they may catch hip-hop or other terrible urban disease.
On the other hand, I am uncomfortable with the daily mail and in fact the guardian for publishing the deluded rantings of women (LJ, Rachel Cusk) who are clearly not entirely sane for the benefit of getting mahoosive amounts of comments. Seems a bit exploitative or am I a bit soft.

And they are such an attractive pair too.

Why is everyone sorry for the awful Keef?

What daft people.

If a photographer comes round to snap a few shots to go with the article, is it part of the contract that you need a completely different outfit for each photo ?

Hullz, simply because he's married to her.

Imagine, for 13 years, having every detail of your rather dim life filmed/written about in the DM.

We have had to sell our house because of the recession and move into rented and we barely broke even but we had to do it because we had to relocate for work and the house needed too much work on it, which we could not afford in one go, to rent out so it had to be sold. I don't however harp on about how hard done to i am because I have to rent a house and send my children to state school as I know very well that i am better off than a lot of people in the country, not materially, but we have our health, our home -hey it may not be ours, but it's OUR home, our children go to nice schools, we both have jobs, we are in a happy family. Does it really matter that you don't own your own home and don't have a wisteria growing round the door

I have re read that and it sounds like I used to send my children to a fee paying school, I didn't! Plus our rent is alot smaller than 2k per month and we are in commuter belt too, but horrifyingly I make my children share bedrooms.

It is compulsory back. The women have to wear nice frocks and kitten heels which are feminine but not tarty. It's a fetish of Paul Dacre's.

He's not fussed about the men as long as they wear anything from the Blue Harbour collection at Marks.

They should never have bought the house if they expected it to renovate itself and act as a cashpoint for their lifestyle.

Only read page 1, but am loving it that (in the 2nd article linked to) she was hiding from the kids' orthodontist/ bursar etc... whilst publishing full details of their financial mess in the Daily Mail for all to see!

I feel v sorry for the poor kids to have their details in all the papers. Also its a bit that the local state is good enough for her son, but not for her daughters - oh and nice that she's telling the whole world he's bad at reading, that must be fab for his self-esteem.

well dh and I live here AbsofCroissant and we clean :o i don't suppose that counts though.....

I did wonder if they were so hard up why they had another child, but I don't suppose that's any of my business

Those large very inadvisable unless you are Kate Moss prints she is wearing... Boden?

Her poor DH does look utterly defeated. He is grimacing.

Her eyes trouble me.

But it is wrong, very wrong, to discuss appearance.

The purple tights are er, cheerful.

I'm wearing purple tights like that right now.

Does that mean I look shite? I rather like them.

A few years ago one of ds friends mums was crying yes crying! because they had remortgaged repeatedly and she applied for another 5k to install a woodburner in their fancy house and they were turned down as they didn't have the equity. She kept saying 'the boys will freeze' and she had central heating