Can I suggest a slight edit dear heart?
Can I suggest a slight edit dear heart?If the front garden is communal, how will she plant her forever hydrangea?she will have no idea how to behave
Having owned a leasehold apartment in the past (before I lost it through some really bad life choices) I agree she is using tricksy words to make it sound like she's renting.
Leasehold apartments (usually 125+ years) have a landlord and you pay a management fee. You have to get approval for any alterations to the property (and she's been going on about the landlord allowing this and that) Though many leasehold properties do not allow cats and dogs, so we'll see how that pans out. They especially don't like pets to use communal areas and gardens.
God help her neighbours, that's all I can say. She's used to detached properties,when you are living in such close proximity to others.
Do you believe in lie after lie"Do you be-leeeEEEEEeev in grift after grift?"
Stevie Nicks did this too. Allegedly, m'lud.Maybe something to think about, got to protect what's left of that voice
Is a charitable act a truly charitable act if you haven't informed all of twitter about it?She’s an annoying git isn’t she?
Jack-I’ve got sooo many books to give away, because I read, I’m clever, and I’m sooo good because I’m offering them for free to worthy causes.
Everyone else having a de clutter- I’ll bag these books up and drop them at the charity shop when I’m passing.
My parents should get themselves into therapy ASAP then, because we basically spent our winters in bed wrapped in blankets because we didn’t have heating or decent windows. (Good job library books are free innit.)May I mither back to this;
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She had therapy because she gave her son basic range cereal?
So brave of her to overcome this trauma and now have enough money to buy high-end furniture.
Can you even imagine being cold & eating smart price food? What absurd patronising crap, and also just shows how brief (if at all) her experience of poverty was.
How insulting to anyone she claims to speak for.
"When I travelled extensively in Asia, even an experienced and adventurous chef like myself was positively overwhelmed with the delicious creations of the marvellous street chefs, who tenderly and lovingly stood by their carts day after day, producing lovely eats" etc etc etc
I might be a complete moan, but I dislike many of those little free libraries. Often used to dump shit that also easily gets weathered. I absolutely adore public libraries though (full disclosure: I once made one at a community group event
It’s most definitely not tiny, that one. Especially with the outhouse and the sun room (not an orangery)…No, all though that one is also on my list.
1 Road from seafront. £450k. Bright pink 2nd bedroom.
@MancBee looks like 2 other flats in property
Setting up the leaseholder/ block manager as the 'landlord' so she can talk away paying ground rent and service charges as 'normal' rent pcm?
I'm just trying to imagine the reaction if I cast up to my parents that everything we ate was supermarket own make and ask if they feel guilty*. They are not violent people but I think the atmosphere could turn quite ugly.My parents should get themselves into therapy ASAP then, because we basically spent our winters in bed wrapped in blankets because we didn’t have heating or decent windows. (Good job library books are free innit.)
What horrible failures my parents are for us being, erm, pretty cold for a few months every year, and having to use ancient ceramic hot water bottles when it was really cold out.
And this traumatic state of affairs was happening while dear little Jack was less than two miles away, snug as a bug in a rug in a nice big house and having her ballet and piano lessons and all that
Basic cereal, lol we had porridge oats with water because a sack of porridge oats was CHEAP … but I usually liked it, because it’s nice if you make it right and shove some sugar in; and it’s still one of my go-to comfort snack/evening foods, except these days I’m well fucking fancy and I quite often have some sea salt and cinnamon in it.) My ma and pa must be absolutely eating themselves alive with the guilt.
Was it an aspirational ‘ideal’ childhood? No, course not. Was it okay? Yeah. Absolutely. Like I’ve said before, I was pretty privileged compared to some of my classmates from actual shitty homes and shitty families. My home was stable and my family - though with the clarity of hindsight and adulthood, I recognise was weird and dysfunctional - was definitely less dysfunctional and harmful than many of my peers’ families. And I never realised I was in the section of society marked lesser-than until I got to secondary, started socialising outside of school for the first time, and met people from the other sections of society.
that quote reads as though Jack Monroe believes that poor parents should feel guilt if their kids are cold or eat basic cereal … and really, is that all that different to the sentiment behind what she reckons Michael Portillo said to her?
She’s irredeemably awful and a completely ignorant snob.
My mum is going to roll her eyes and tell me she already knows Jack Monroe is a spoilt cow thanks, and my dad will be amazed at how soft people are these days that they can get PTSD from being a bit cold in the winter. I know what they’re gonna say, but I’m still going to waste some of our precious time this weekend showing them her complete bullshit 🫣
(My parents can’t afford therapy for their terrible misdeed of failing to have heating anyway)
All day long, on the chaise longue!Lovely deck outside.
and a room she could invite Russel Brand to 🥹That's the one
It’s ok.if I remember correctly Free holders have the right to add the charges on to the mortgage balance if they don’t get paid.Setting up the leaseholder/ block manager as the 'landlord' so she can talk away paying ground rent and service charges as 'normal' rent pcm?
It's interesting she refers to 'gardens' plural, but only talks about the front one being communal...which would suggest that the tiny smol 1 bedroom flat has its own private garden.
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