Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

No, I'll never be like that. Promise.

5 years ago I decided to ride up Mont Ventoux for a laugh.

Me and my riding partner had a couple of ales the night before and it was all fun.

In March I'm doing this:

zappahey

It seems to me that this is a graph where labels like despair would be far more appropriate than the one that is usually posted.

neverdespairgirl

Wow, best of luck Gen!

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

5 years ago I decided to ride up Mont Ventoux for a laugh.

Me and my riding partner had a couple of ales the night before and it was all fun.

In March I'm doing this:

How do people manage to cycle up hills? I took my bike out once and had to walk it up the hills... from standing still, my entire body weight on the pedals wouldn't budge the bike one inch. I think the hills where I lived averaged about 15-20%

fc123

To update the thread.....last Sundays article was quite sad.
I know her diary column has a time lag of about 4 weeks.

Anyways.....she actually mentioned the B word and I wonder if it really is that bad afterall?

I had stupidly thought that moving to the country, away from the Organic Pub and Space NK, with my own vegetables, looking after my own horse rather than stabling her in Windsor Great Park, would be cheaper. I hadn’t reckoned on the constant upkeep: the responsibility of owning land and trees and hedges.

I thought they just grew.

It is funny what has tipped me over the edge: not the shotgun, or the eggs, or the councillor dressing up as me, or the women in the Tantivy gift shop likening me to Michael Jackson, or the man who runs the Post Office in Dulverton threatening to break my birthday present, but a toothbrush.

Yesterday, my electric toothbrush wouldn’t work, and I was reduced to using it manually. The ignominy. The effort.


Plus, my chilblains have returned. I sat on the floor of my horrid bedroom, damp on the walls, carpet filled with cat wee, in the cold, and I wept. I have tried so hard, and it has all come to nothing.

I came in search of happiness and I have found loneliness and humiliation and bankruptcy.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1230288/In-I-count-cost-country-living.html#ixzz0Z8sEMIPM

torontoboy45

fc123 wrote: »

To update the thread.....last Sundays article was quite sad.
I know her diary column has a time lag of about 4 weeks.

Anyways.....she actually mentioned the B word and I wonder if it really is that bad afterall?

my heart sings with joy that most women aren't like this.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

I came in search of happiness and I have found loneliness and humiliation and bankruptcy.

It sounds so much like a metaphor for her previous illness. I can't read the column anymore. My frustration over it is too ugly for me to deal with

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

It sounds so much like a metaphor for her previous illness. I can't read the column anymore. My frustration over it is too ugly for me to deal with

OH feels the same way..can't read it at all. I am still addicted but have no idea why. :o

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

OH feels the same way..can't read it at all. I am still addicted but have no idea why. :o

I miss it....I like getting the edited version through you....third party I seem to have less wrath, more sympathy. I just think the sustained self indulgent thing is really bad for people, especially some people.

purch

the women in the Tantivy gift shop

They are very nice people, and have just extended the shop to have a Tea/Coffee shop in the back.

The stupid tart probably thinks she's giving the place bad publicity when she mentions them in such a way in her article, but she's too stupid to realise that she is so universally loathed that all she has done is give the Tantivy, (and anyone else she disses for similar reasons) good publicity.