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god help us...if you're rich middle class with an understanding publisher husband you too can run away from life haha

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zippitippitoes · 20/05/2006 08:33

....if you've ever felt so miserable you wanted to disappear then read this

\link{http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2006/05/17/hpollen17.xml&sSheet=/health/2006/05/17/ixhmain.html\ I'll never moan about my life in ladbroke grove again}

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arfy · 21/05/2006 00:07

ah well that's different beetle.....

arfy · 21/05/2006 00:07

I spelt it wrong anyway Blush

suejonez · 21/05/2006 00:13

What did you spell wrong arfy? I missed it. I'm collecting material for my book - funny mis-spelling may come in useful...

arfy · 21/05/2006 00:21

Ladbrooke instead of Ladbroke

Only way that can come into your book is prob talking about the bookies Grin

suejonez · 21/05/2006 00:22

Diffucult to work in with the illegal welsh plumbers sneaking across no mans land

suejonez · 21/05/2006 00:23

and incidentally, shows you cared enough to type it all out - I just cut and pasted from an earlier post Blush

handlemecarefully · 21/05/2006 00:43

Do you know how you lot sound???? ffs!

handlemecarefully · 21/05/2006 00:51

C'mon I'm spoiling for a ruck - someone take issue with me!

arfy · 21/05/2006 00:52

how do we sound then Grin

arfy · 21/05/2006 00:53

oh I've got to go to bed though. It's late isn't it!

and if you're going to say we sound jealous - OF COURSE I AM!!!!!

handlemecarefully · 21/05/2006 01:02

That was along my line of thinking arfy I regret to say

handlemecarefully · 21/05/2006 01:03

But hell you admit it so automatically redeem yourself Grin

EmmyLou · 21/05/2006 01:22

Thanks all - can now go to bed laughing Grin
or maybe i'll jack it all in, bypass the bedroom and run away to the attic. Wonder if the kids would bother looking for me in the morning?

expatinscotland · 21/05/2006 17:16

I'm gonna write about my caravan park holiday - how we 'got it away from it all' to find ourselves amongst the cans of baked beans and Herta frankfurters.

I feel I can really 'connect' by retreating from the insanity of life in our cozy doublewide, complete w/athlete's foot fungus in the shower and bedbugs :o, probably w/a few dozen midgies and some stinging insects.

motherinferior · 21/05/2006 17:21

I don't think that being middle-class and/or moneyed automatically equals happiness, but I do think that not many of us are in a position to escape our domestic rut so easily, and slot back into it equally easily. And those women who do leave their children take an enormous gamble and are widely reviled for it.

expatinscotland · 21/05/2006 17:32

Much cheaper and easier to 'escape' via an inexpensive bottle of plonk.

fireflyfairy2 · 21/05/2006 18:10

husband - publisher David Macmillan

'Midnight Cactus' by Bella Pollen (Macmillan) is available for £12.99 plus £1.25 p&p.

Coincidence?

Did Macmillan publish her books then marry her or is he publishing them cos she os his wife? Or are they really excellent? Have to admit I haven't heard of her and I am an avid reader Grin

sparklemagic · 21/05/2006 18:27

urrrrg, I want to PUKE! what a load of absolute bollocks. What an adventure, she went on an extended holiday in her family's holiday home.

woooooooooooooooo, I am so impressed by her complexity.

She thinks that thinking about going across a border illegally is really 'living!' But she didn't do it! wooooooooo!

I'd be bloody impressed if she did something on her own, without the backing of her rich husband. Something that didn't rely on family money or homes.

ssd · 21/05/2006 19:18

she wouldn't have the balls Sparkle!

expatinscotland · 21/05/2006 22:11

'She thinks that thinking about going across a border illegally is really 'living!' But she didn't do it! wooooooooo! '

Sorry, but my grandparents were Mexican immigrants - back in the day when the borders were pretty much open (c. 1920), and I have to say I'm quite frankly VERY offended that someone would actually find what some people go thru to get in the country, what they are willing to risk and the price some have to pay, an 'adventure' or in any way a source of comedy.

That truly makes me want to vomit.

She's a narrow-minded, patronising twat as far as I'm concerned.

suejonez · 21/05/2006 22:14

"She's a narrow-minded, patronising twat as far as I'm concerned."

Lol Expat - no don't hold back - tell us what you really think!

expatinscotland · 21/05/2006 22:21

It really makes me sick, sue. Human trafficking is such a horrific CRIME, as we all know. There is FA that is in any way funny about it. So many people have died or been made slaves by gangs who traffic them in - just look at those cockel pickers. And everyone has seen the recent BBC reports about all those poor women who were trafficked into the UK and made sex slaves.

The very fact that she actually found that a source for a comedic sort of 'writing' just shows you what she's like.

What a bitch.

suejonez · 21/05/2006 22:43

I just had to go back and re-read the article again, it's so unbelievably smug. I alternated between laughing outloud and wincing with embarassment on her behalf.

"We lived on macaroni cheese" Shock - can you imagine it macaroni cheese - how low can you get?

She's mad, barking mad...

sparklemagic · 21/05/2006 22:44

Hi expat, I didn't mean that to imply that people who actually are driven in their own lives to go across borders illegally, are not in a horrible risky situation. What I meant was that this woman thought she was living some kind of 'adventure' because she thought of following others doing this - from her safe, 'I'm just watching and can fly home to all the comforts at a moment's notice' vantage point! There's such a difference to being in this desperate situation, and observing it so that one can come home to Ladbroke Grove or Primrose Hill or whatever bleedin place, and write about it....it's this i was referring to.

Nightynight · 21/05/2006 22:52

OMG - what an adventurous woman! She took 2 children to their 2nd home for a few months. pah - its the daily telegraph, what can you expect?

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