So posing topless with tats on your arm and smoking a ciggie while wearing Kangol briefs proves you're not cis? Whatever
Jack Monroe #413 The flying monkeys are more like limping chimpanzees these days
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Also...people have been reluctant to see through the grift because they don't want to be perceived as attacking the poors. Or attacking people who live with autism, arthritis, ADHD, etc. Or attacking people who are raising kids on their own. Or attacking people who are transgender or lesbian.
Inadvertently or not, JM has ticked a lot of the boxes for oppressed identities - I don't mean that facetiously, because people who genuinely fall into those categories *are* oppressed - and identified herself with groups that will mobilize when they see one of their own being attacked. And that makes JM's claiming those identities even more odious, because she's not being attacked for being whatever identity she's wearing that day - she's being attacked for being a liar and a fraud. And she's taking attention and resources away from folks who genuinely are disadvantaged and could use help way more than she does.
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It’s virtually impossible to ‘make money’ from crafting. It’s supply hungry and time consuming. Then if you didn’t develop the pattern you’re not usually supposed to sell the item. Craft mags etc have copyright free patterns but then you’re making something anyone following the pattern could make. The only reason to pay you is because they want the thing desperately but don’t want to make it. In that instance most people will just go to a shop.
In order to make anything from art (unless you break through and be Emin) you have to do one thing really well and wear many chapeau in order to promote it and you. Workshops, teaching, making work, commissions, entering competitions, applying for arts funding, bid writing and the bank-breaking business of exhibiting at a craft show. Oh and galleries and gift shops will take up to 55% of your sale once you’ve paid all your insurances and expenses and tax if you make enough to pay any.
My degree was fine art but I struggled to finance my work (i did have a family and a job so they were priority) Even selling through gift shops at art galleries/museums brings you in hardly anything once you’ve provided all the display, packaging and the retailer has taken their cut. I was devastated for ages and felt like I’d wasted my chance at a better career. Went down loads of roads to stay in the creative industry but actually my job now in a social care setting allows me to use all my creativity and I just make work i want to for the heck of it and for family/friends/me. I do sell stuff occasionally but it’s mostly to commission so there’s no financial risk. I’m sure all of this was pointed out to her on FB at the time as it’s the age old thing.
I once costed a pair of hand-knitted slipper boots to make-fair isle type pattern in 7 colours. One colour was used so sparingly it was ridiculous. £8.99 a 50g ball. I think it was 12 balls plus I needed new needles in a size I didn’t have, plus the sheepskin sole and inner and strong thread for attaching. I think it came out at about £115.00 for yarn and bits. Now imagine I want paying for my time. Maybe 7 hours of solid knitting per slipper sock, maybe more with the fair isle. I want £20 per hour because that is skillz. That’s £280. £395 for a pair of jankily made slipper boots you can’t wash?
I haven’t factored in packaging to send them or any marketing materials so you can see how a ‘turning your hobby into a side hustle’ could get complicated!
In order to make anything from art (unless you break through and be Emin) you have to do one thing really well and wear many chapeau in order to promote it and you. Workshops, teaching, making work, commissions, entering competitions, applying for arts funding, bid writing and the bank-breaking business of exhibiting at a craft show. Oh and galleries and gift shops will take up to 55% of your sale once you’ve paid all your insurances and expenses and tax if you make enough to pay any.
My degree was fine art but I struggled to finance my work (i did have a family and a job so they were priority) Even selling through gift shops at art galleries/museums brings you in hardly anything once you’ve provided all the display, packaging and the retailer has taken their cut. I was devastated for ages and felt like I’d wasted my chance at a better career. Went down loads of roads to stay in the creative industry but actually my job now in a social care setting allows me to use all my creativity and I just make work i want to for the heck of it and for family/friends/me. I do sell stuff occasionally but it’s mostly to commission so there’s no financial risk. I’m sure all of this was pointed out to her on FB at the time as it’s the age old thing.
I once costed a pair of hand-knitted slipper boots to make-fair isle type pattern in 7 colours. One colour was used so sparingly it was ridiculous. £8.99 a 50g ball. I think it was 12 balls plus I needed new needles in a size I didn’t have, plus the sheepskin sole and inner and strong thread for attaching. I think it came out at about £115.00 for yarn and bits. Now imagine I want paying for my time. Maybe 7 hours of solid knitting per slipper sock, maybe more with the fair isle. I want £20 per hour because that is skillz. That’s £280. £395 for a pair of jankily made slipper boots you can’t wash?
I haven’t factored in packaging to send them or any marketing materials so you can see how a ‘turning your hobby into a side hustle’ could get complicated! 
Not sure why in May 2012 she needed to sign up to get a degree (or two) when as we all know, in March 2012 she already had one. This one in March must have been in something other than “Social Policy and Criminology alongside a BA(Hons) in PPE”, I suppose.
Also, if she’s signed up to do “a degree” in Social Policy and Crim, what does the dozy dipshit think it is, other than a Bachelor’s degree like a “BA(Hons)” I see she’s always been terrific at researching her stories before posting her shite.
I suspect the "Macebearer to the Mayoralty" has to have a car because (a) they have to attend lots of events, not all of them at sites served by reliable public transit [this would be true anywhere], and they also have to show up on time, and (b) ceremonial maces are *heavy*. They don't really lend themselves to smol pixies with disabling arthritis chucking them in an Aldi carrier bag and hauling them around.
I suspect the other reason why JM didn't get the Macebearer job is that she's an obnoxious attention-seeking twit that very few people would want to work with.
I suspect the other reason why JM didn't get the Macebearer job is that she's an obnoxious attention-seeking twit that very few people would want to work with.
For those of you softly, gently awakening and anxiously wondering if she’s going to post that pancake recipe in time for you to painstakingly make it for your own children’s breakfasts, perhaps while you wait, you can make your family her 4p Charity Twatbreads instead.
ETA, unless your parents are something like Boss Hell’s Angel outlaw bikers, or members of a bizarre cult which advocates of never letting your children read but encouraging them to shout at all times, how the duck do you “rebel in a quiet, bookish way”? She’s such a tit.
ETA, unless your parents are something like Boss Hell’s Angel outlaw bikers, or members of a bizarre cult which advocates of never letting your children read but encouraging them to shout at all times, how the duck do you “rebel in a quiet, bookish way”? She’s such a tit.
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Back when she was originally in "poverty as she describes it" she was still Melissa. Jack came when she realised she could make money from people. And did.
Someone should point out the difference between licence and license to her. Otherwise when such stories are published there's a real chance she'll look like a complete idiot.
Spot the table in the background.....At least 4 chairs there, so possibly 8 in total done I can only see half of. Not bad at all, I'd love to have friends who help me get a table for 8 people to sit round....and there is a tattoo on the possible underside of her arm ....
I don't know where Jack is in that photo, but she's not at home.
You have just made my day before it even started. One, I love that you knit and create. I know it makes you zilch. But I love that you do it. My mum does the same and knitted me this amazing cardigan that I have on right now. I asked her to knit me another and I got a Look.It’s virtually impossible to ‘make money’ from crafting. It’s supply hungry and time consuming. Then if you didn’t develop the pattern you’re not usually supposed to sell the item. Craft mags etc have copyright free patterns but then you’re making something anyone following the pattern could make. The only reason to pay you is because they want the thing desperately but don’t want to make it. In that instance most people will just go to a shop.
In order to make anything from art (unless you break through and be Emin) you have to do one thing really well and wear many chapeau in order to promote it and you. Workshops, teaching, making work, commissions, entering competitions, applying for arts funding, bid writing and the bank-breaking business of exhibiting at a craft show. Oh and galleries and gift shops will take up to 55% of your sale once you’ve paid all your insurances and expenses and tax if you make enough to pay any.
My degree was fine art but I struggled to finance my work (i did have a family and a job so they were priority) Even selling through gift shops at art galleries/museums brings you in hardly anything once you’ve provided all the display, packaging and the retailer has taken their cut. I was devastated for ages and felt like I’d wasted my chance at a better career. Went down loads of roads to stay in the creative industry but actually my job now in a social care setting allows me to use all my creativity and I just make work i want to for the heck of it and for family/friends/me. I do sell stuff occasionally but it’s mostly to commission so there’s no financial risk. I’m sure all of this was pointed out to her on FB at the time as it’s the age old thing.
I once costed a pair of hand-knitted slipper boots to make-fair isle type pattern in 7 colours. One colour was used so sparingly it was ridiculous. £8.99 a 50g ball. I think it was 12 balls plus I needed new needles in a size I didn’t have, plus the sheepskin sole and inner and strong thread for attaching. I think it came out at about £115.00 for yarn and bits. Now imagine I want paying for my time. Maybe 7 hours of solid knitting per slipper sock, maybe more with the fair isle. I want £20 per hour because that is skillz. That’s £280. £395 for a pair of jankily made slipper boots you can’t wash?
Two. She has created the most funniest family moments when things go wrong. We used to watch things together as a family, that's fine, until she dropped a stitch or made a mistake.
'PAUSE.' she would say, and still does. She's not dead - yet. (Dad says there are plans, mum says she's ahead of him).
My dad, startled by the demand but not unexpecting of it, would juggle the remote and pause the programme.
We'd sit there for a moment expecting that mum would just fix what was wrong.
Then we heard it, under her breath 'I'll need to take it back, missed a bleeping stitch.' Quiet for a moment. 'duck sake.' My mum never swore and still doesn't, unless she messes up a knitting pattern.
The other night I stayed until about midnight, but before that I was just sitting with my mum. We were watching a programme that she has on tape (Brokenwood?) and I was into it. Out of nowhere. 'I am pausing that! I'VE MADE A bleeping MISTAKE.' The programme went to pause and the language embarrassed me. I told her she'd make a sailor blush and she told me to 'try bleeping knitting when it's not for you'.
Fair enough.
(I know this isn't on topic as such - soz)
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Her old Instagram is littered with photos of food that she’d made/eaten or her in a pub/SB in a cafe during this period. Also a photos of her going with a friend to get tattooed. All in 2012.More ye olde bollox from yesteryore. 2013 article.
“Didn’t tell anyone she was hungry“ from November 2011 to at least December 2012. Even though in that time she told thousands of people including her parents and friends via her blog, by her own admission her mother came round with food, and they spent Christmas Day 2012 at her parents
We went hungry in world's seventh-richest nation - it has to stop
Mirror guest columnist Jack Monroe on going hungry and not even being able to give her son a Christmas presentwww.mirror.co.uk
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Took her “18 months to find work” and only then was she able to “feed herself and her son 3 meals a day again”. So from November until May/June 2013? Despite all the jobs (including bar work, a trainee reporter on her local newspaper etc etc all of which she LEFT- apart from the one that fired her for being too nice
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What I think she means by “took me 18 months to find work” is ‘work that suits my grandiose notions of what I’m entitled to’, because that’s when she got hired to write the weekly ‘Recipes for Life’ guardian column that lasted from July 2013 all the way through to April 2015 and commissioned to write her book.
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It’s also unbelievable (in the literal sense of the word) that she resigned from a £27,000 a year job in November 2011 but was in this level of dire straits by Christmas in the following month.
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It’s truly incredible that NOBODY in the media EVER did even a modicum of due diligence and research on this lying charlatan. No wonder her lurid pov tales have become increasingly wild and improbable over the years; she’s high on their ineptitude in letting her get away with it. Mateus mate, where are you?
Very sorry about the brown slop photo.
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That second pic is not hers. It's too yummy. She lifted it. Otherwise, she just talks tit then and now.,
Surely by bringing it up again, it will stir up questions about the money? Which she doesn’t want
It also means she has to pay tax on it first so the charity loses that too.
I meant her claiming money is going to a disbanded charity, it is dishonest at the very least, if not outright fraud. It must be within the remit of ‘somebody'?
Where was she working in 2012?
Also, I’m not sure that people in the depths of poverty have disco kitchens, baskets full of herbs/spices and fresh chilli/rosemary plants.
Also, I’m not sure that people in the depths of poverty have disco kitchens, baskets full of herbs/spices and fresh chilli/rosemary plants.
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This woman is just ridiculous! Flip flopping amongst different career choices, proudly announcing them to the world, then never following through.
Pretty patronising is her implication that teaching is a nice cosy little job that can be fitted around single motherhood jUsT lIkE cRaFtInG! Yes Jack single mothers do teach but it’s one of the most difficult jobs in the world. You don’t finish when the school day finishes. You’re up until late marking and prepping. Plus, teaching requires empathy, perceptiveness and the ability to centre someone other than yourself. Er I don’t think it would’ve been for you love.
Plus, interesting line there about “I rebelled as a schoolgirl in a quiet bookish way”. I thought you smoked, drank, acted out and stole scalpels and took a knife to school, Jack. Vair quiet, much bookish.
This woman is a fraud, a flibbertigibbert and totally unreliable, no backbone or moral compass whatsoever.
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