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How the other half live

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MollieO · 30/07/2009 21:06

Anyone watching?

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becstarlitsea · 31/07/2009 17:27

My DH is indeed great, he is the best man there ever was. (please don't all vomit at once )

It's much harder for you being by yourself, and it sounds like you don't get nearly as much support from extended family as we do. The people in my life who love & support me make a difference that money can't buy, and the food parcels always make such a difference, mainly because so much love and time goes into them (vegetables from FILs allotment, green tomato chutney, home made jam, eggs from my mum's ultra-free-range-borderline-feral hens) The lottery couldn't give me that stuff. When we want a holiday and can't afford to get up to DH's uncle we often have one at home - take sandwiches and orange squash to the park, walk to free attractions and back, stick a pin in our local page of the a-z and go to a street we've never walked down before just to explore.

I'm sorry you feel so low sometimes. You're doing brilliantly to be caring for three kids on your own and working as well. And it's great that you're doing a job you love - most people never bother to find something they love and take the trouble to do it well, so you're exceptional in that way as well. I can't give you any advice because I don't know your situation. But perhaps the trapped feeling will disappear when you least expect it - and it might not come as a lottery win but in some totally unexpected form. I hope so - I'm really sorry that you feel so sad.

startingagain · 31/07/2009 17:35

Thanks for your message becstar

Just having a bad day i think!!

That programme didn't help my situation though, it also affected you in different way by the sounds of it

I think your life sounds great so maybe we ought to stop watching rubbish on tv

becstarlitsea · 31/07/2009 17:46

Excellent plan startingagain! Let's stop watching reality tv. I don't think I ever did watch a reality tv programme or documentary that cheered me up. Think I'll curl up with a nice trashy book tonight instead - far better for the morale.

Best of luck to you x

startingagain · 31/07/2009 17:46
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cathcat · 31/07/2009 17:47

becstar when you say you don't claim benefits do you mean you don't claim any benefits even your child benefit? It is your entitlement and might make a difference to your weekly budget.

MarshaBrady · 31/07/2009 18:02

Becstar if your home is full to the brim with paintings, photographs and books I bet your ds isn't missing out on anything. And dh making home made pirate ships does sound idyllic.

Plus if you read Evelyn Waugh then I know you have good taste

becstarlitsea · 31/07/2009 18:24

Cathcat - you're right I should have been more specific. We do claim child benefit and it does come in very useful - we put half into DSs child trust fund thingie so that he won't panic about university fees (and so that it can't be spent by his arty feckless parents!) and half goes to buying food, clothes etc. I just meant that DH won't wind up his company and claim income support even though we haven't been able to

MarshaBrady - DH and I often quote that passage from 'Brideshead' where Charles visits his father saying he's 'run rather short' and gets the reply "Well, I'm the worst person to come to for advice. I've never been "short" as you so painfully call it." - that whole scene is just wonderful...

becstarlitsea · 31/07/2009 18:27

Oops sorry - got distracted by DS and didn't finish sentence to CathCat before continuing - should read

having been able to pay ourselves for six months.

Doh! Am locked in debate with 3 year old about Thomas Tank Engine while trying to quote Evelyn Waugh - my brain can't take the strain!

becstarlitsea · 31/07/2009 18:28

ARGH! 'haven't'

I meant 'haven't been able to pay ourselves for six months'

Okay, am signing off now so that I can properly engage in the important issue of 'why Thomas is looking bit sad'.

startingagain · 31/07/2009 18:31

Thats multi tasking in the highest form becstar

forehead · 01/08/2009 18:42

All the girls were lovely and a credit to their parents. I am sure all the girls will do wonderful things with their lives.

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