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TBH, I have come to the conclusion that justpurchased cannot be any other poster as I do not recall any other poster with such truly atrocious spelling. Not in any way relevant to the points raised, but it is starting to make my head ache. The lose/loose thing is quite common, I know, but the range of others is getting strangely irritating.
For the record, justpurchased, when you do a typo, the computer puts a little red line under mistakes. Do you think you could just check for these before you post? Please?
Thank you. Ouch.
I am just glad you do not teach any of my children you are truly horrible.0 -
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Sorry I respected you; obviously as bitter as Carol and !!!!!! (actually he is not that bitter but fairly hostile if you challenge his views). I take it back I hope houses in your area remain as unaffordable. To think I bit my tong when you said you spent £2100 on a NANNY each month.:rolleyes:neverdespairgirl wrote: »But enough about me. What do you think about me?
I think you used the glass houses quote!0 -
Ouch, poor you, you seem to have bitten two of the letters off.justpurchased wrote: »:rolleyes:
To think I bit my tong when...0 -
justpurchased wrote: »:rolleyes:
Sorry I respected you; obviously as bitter as Carol and !!!!!! (actually he is not that bitter but fairly hostile if you challenge his views). I take it back I hope houses in your area remain as unaffordable. To think I bit my tong when you said you spent £2100 on a NANNY each month.:rolleyes:
I think you used the glass houses quote!
Sorry, I'm lost. Has this something to do with house prices?
BTW, I have sympathy with a woman who wants to have a family AND a career. Clearly, she needs a good nanny. I'm afraid that £2k a month's about what it costs in London to get a good one. Assuming NDG earns more (net of tax) than she pays the nanny, it makes reasonable sense financially. The key point, though, is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get re-established in a competitive and high-powered profession (barrister, I believe) after say a 10 year child-rearing break. That clearly does not apply in other less high-powered lines of work.
My wife took a prolonged period out of work, and she's now gone back to uni to take a degree course. I admire NDG for working out how to avoid that.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Oh, I'm probably going to get told off now for the assumption that it's the woman's role to take time off for child-rearing. Sorry.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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Oh, I'm probably going to get told off now for the assumption that it's the woman's role to take time off for child-rearing. Sorry.
Well....practically, she has to be present at the birth at least.
This woman isn't going to tell you off. I'm with the right to choose.
Personally, if I had a child, the quality of childcare would be paramount to me. If it cost £2100 pcm and I had it then its not something I'd be MSE about.0 -
justpurchased wrote: »:rolleyes:
Sorry I respected you; obviously as bitter as Carol and !!!!!! (actually he is not that bitter but fairly hostile if you challenge his views). I take it back I hope houses in your area remain as unaffordable. To think I bit my tong when you said you spent £2100 on a NANNY each month.:rolleyes:
I think you used the glass houses quote!
I don't think I'm bitter, particularly. Houses in my area are, for sure, always going to out of my financial reach, I reckon. It would cost in the region of £500k+ * to buy the absolute cheapest house in WC1 now, and I wouldn't live in that bit of King's Cross, nor pay that much for a cramped ex-LA place anyway. For a Georgian terrace round here, we'd need to find a couple of million quid down the back of our sofa **, and I think that's unlikely. That's fine with me, though, I like living in a flat, and regard it as a decent compromise for living so centrally.
Feel free to unbite your tongue if you wish. Childcare is, I reckon, a decision no-one takes lightly. When Isaac was born, we thought through all the options. We decided against a nursery for several reasons. Firstly, I thought he was too young to be out of his home all day, with shifting carers. Secondly, the hours are inflexible, at both ends. On occasion, both OH and I are in court way out of London, and leave before sparrow fart. Then our nanny stays overnight the night before. Sometimes she leaves at lunchtime, and we have an afternoon in the park together. That flexibility is important for barristers. We are also lucky enough to have my mother a few miles away - she doesn't work outside the home, and is our emergency plan B if necessary.
And it's worked out really well. OH and I really like her, she loves Isaac, Isaac loves her. He's based in his own home, with plenty of consistent, permanent attention. If he's not well, they stay at home and play with trains or read books. If the weather's good, they can go out for the day. If it's raining, they can go to museums or anything. If I'm working in Chambers or in court locally, I can come home from lunch and see him.
Financially, it's worth it, in that I earn more than we pay her. If I were to take years off at home, I'd need to find another career, and both OH and I love our work and don't want to change it.
So it all works perfectly!
* http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-10281585.rsp?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy
** http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-18940528.rsp?pa_n=2&tr_t=buy...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
The key point, though, is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get re-established in a competitive and high-powered profession (barrister, I believe) after say a 10 year child-rearing break. That clearly does not apply in other less high-powered lines of work.
My wife took a prolonged period out of work, and she's now gone back to uni to take a degree course. I admire NDG for working out how to avoid that.
Different things suit different people. My mother stopped work before I was born, and went back part-time (both times as a teacher) when I was 17, my sisters were 15 and 11, and my brother was 9. She taught for 6 years part-time, then packed it in again.
She was the ultimate, wonderful stay-at-home mother. She made everything - bread, beer, wine, dresses, jumpers, etc. I love and admire her for it.
It wouldn't suit me, though. I am different from her. And fortunately for me, she's secure and happy about the choice she made, and has no need for me to make the same choice in order to validate her own life....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Well....practically, she has to be present at the birth at least. This woman isn't going to tell you off. I'm with the right to choose.
Personally, if I had a child, the quality of childcare would be paramount to me. If it cost £2100 pcm and I had it then its not something I'd be MSE about.
I was definintely there, I remember it well (-:
Being MSE for me is about value for money, not the amount spent. It's daft to pay hundreds of pounds a year extra for gas, or poor quality food, etc. Childcare isn't one of those things, you can't compare it in an "X costs £5, Y costs £8, therefore X is better" kind of way....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »But enough about me. What do you think about me?
So why bother making this comment?0
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