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BBC news with its finger on the pulse as usual

 
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jema
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:03 pm    Post subject: BBC news with its finger on the pulse as usual Reply with quote
    

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15197860

T.G



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have so much I want to say, so much I could say and so much I probably shouldn't ... I'll place my energies in cleaning the keyboard Max *messed up * for me while he's sleeping.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

good grief

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Mutter mumble grumble, goes off to beat head against wall and wait for BP meds to fail..........

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 11 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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Kate and Jai do not have children, but Kate puts their large disposable income down to being good at financial management.


I don't. I put it down to you not having kids.

Shane



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 11 8:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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She spends �10,000 every couple of years to buy a new car and likes to go on two or three package holidays a year.
Hmm - hardly a good example of how hard it can be to make ends meet on two people's salaries, I'd have thought.

jema
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 11 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Indeed it is not a story about making ends meets, it's a story about leading a "designer" lifestyle on an amount of money which actually is "tight" for such a lifestyle

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 11 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Good grief

Poor hard done by little lambs

Shane



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 11 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Indeed. Heaven forbid that they may have to cut down to one or two package holidays a year

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 11 2:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Came across as a rather jumbled piece of reporting which was little more than a page filler.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 11 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Avarage wage stories just depress most of us

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