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

[mrsruffallo]

Why not just go to state school?
here

She didn't lose her house as she actively chose to use the money to send her DCs to private school.

They are idiots who are shit with money.

"they must have done it 4 times though"

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?

they all wear too much Boden. i sometimes look at Boden and think it is rather nice then i read about someone like her and think that New Look is just fine thankyou!

Nice to see Housepricecrash and Mumsnet in unanimity!
www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=175558

If the DM were going to go to the trouble of photo-shopping me in front of my old house, I think I'd ask them to go the whole hog and do some work on my looks aswell.

TBH with all the various articles I wonder if they are actually a real family, or is it just made up for the British media!?

Apart from houseprice crash saying that she was a MNer.

As if.

I have very little sympathy for parents, full stop, and especially parents with more than one child, who don't pause to consider that, yes, they'll be bringing up their precious brat in a country with a shit education system, and that no, life isn't fair. Even less sympathy for someone broadcasting how sad they are because they don't have a huge house anymore. She needs some perspective.

she won't get perspective with those mince pies

I am now strange fascinated by her Facebook page though!

Abs
half of me hopes she reads this thread
as then we might never have to read one of her articles again and her poor children will no longer be bullied for having such a vacuous mother!

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!

Oh her facebook thingy is fascinating. She was in Antigua in March last year & then Concarneau in August. Freebies? Or perhaps not as poor as she makes out?
Keith bought a rowing boat in August too - but poor Shona still has to sell her jewelry for school fees.

Not convinced she is financially struggling that much tbh - holidays to Antigua, South of France, etc. Several articles being written which she is being paid for. And from her FB looks like lots of articles also done on behalf of others too.

I feel a bit faint at reading that sex quote

It's not really true is it?????? Please tell me Hully is joshing and she's not really talking about her husbands throbbing wand on t'internet!

hulababy - I wondered the same thing. Do the kids come from a model agency and she and her husband are in fact called Ron and Marge and come from Scunthorpe originally.

She's just a journalist churning out odd articles I think. She just ropes in her kids and husband, and friends, by the looks of it. Oh - and her parents apparently too - according to her FB her own mum is doing her for libel following one article!!!

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2034840/How-Ive-learnt-accept-feeling-ugly-With-startling-honesty-woman-describes-looks-affected-life.html#comments
Birth defect - can't help the squint

Hully I have just sprayed tea over my children!

The only sympathy is for myself.

Sympathy for the fact that I didn't become a writer as I once dreamed when I was ten - and therefore cannot make money by churning out brainless shite at 50 words a minute.

Such a waste of my life :(

I clicked on the sex article and found reading that she and her husband were trying it out more than enough. Then I read Hully's post...anyone any spare cash for councelling. I'm traumatised

Ok.

I have to kill myself now.

I knew that would happen.