As I'm a born again newbie I thought I'd give my origin story & have a wild speculate about her finances & house move.
Read about her in guardian at the start, read the bean burger recipe & some others, figured she must have been utterly desperate to make such incomplete, insufficient, unappealing meals but thought 'good for her for writing about her difficulties so openly & honestly'. (
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My turning point was the 'i'm an alcoholic' article, I leapt on it as I had alcohol abuse issues myself. It was such utter guff that the scales fell instantly from my eyes. I came to tattle a while later (sarah akwisombe - I nearly signed up with her coaching biz so tattle literally saved me from a scammer - eternally grateful to that thread) bonus was I found Jacks thread. Oh happy day!
I'm firmly of the belief that there is no house move. Never was. She made it up to score a point with someone for some likely imaginary arguement & it got well out of hand. Then she actually started believing it herself & packed a load of boxes.
Also I doubt that that there's any savings etc. I reckon that patreon doesn't bring in as much as is often speculated here, I think the estimate is average 14 quid? I used to work in charity fundraising for individual donors, there is an attitude that 'every little helps' & 'I do my bit'. The impression I often got was that for the donors the act of giving is what was important (& most important is the warm fuzzy the donor gets not the use the charity makes of the donations) so I'm of the view that Jack gets mostly small amounts (3.50 level) as tokens of appreciation. I further think that she got duck all from Grifty Kitchen except for the advance which would have been modest surely? As many media & events fraus have already noted, book festivals don't pay much more than expenses. I'm in two minds about Sue Lee as I think a lot of folk are all talk and no action so whilst they encouraged her they didn't get their wallets out. Had she actually been intending to sue & done a proper legal crowdfunder, making the process and progress clear I think she might have absolutely coined it (i might have chipped in myself for mischief) but also would have had to spend it on a legal case rather than sideboards.
I would eat a vat of peach & chickpea curry with a side of veg peel surprise to know how many copies of grifty kitchen she sold. I think the canal would collectively expire of laughter / shock if this was revealed. x
something we need to be more aware of.
then the rage rants start. 
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