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Don't get me started on phone bills !!!!!!
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Rory wrote:You made me laugh - I need that - just got a mobile bill for over RMB 5000 for a month - thats still a lot in English money
Try a terms fees at 3 private schools

Has to be paid in about 2 weeks

I'm about ready to be bankrupted

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School fees etc....
been there
had the bank screaming
had the kids screaming
am still screaming
as there are still bills to pay!

an arm and a leg for a decent education - hmm wonder why so many people now send their offspring to private education... nothing to do with the fact that the state system lets so many of us down???????

Would like to be in the OB day - with enough notice I could get teh ol clarinet in order and maybe the voice! It would be great to get an OB choir to sing - (CHOGA AND OB - then I don't have to sing tenor!!!)
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Jude wrote:School fees etc....
been there
had the bank screaming
had the kids screaming
am still screaming
as there are still bills to pay!

an arm and a leg for a decent education - hmm wonder why so many people now send their offspring to private education... nothing to do with the fact that the state system lets so many of us down???????

Would like to be in the OB day - with enough notice I could get teh ol clarinet in order and maybe the voice! It would be great to get an OB choir to sing - (CHOGA AND OB - then I don't have to sing tenor!!!)
I would argue with the comment about state school systems, I've been through the state system untill i went to CH at 16 which was totally my choice and my brother and sister untill 18 were at the local schools-despite our father having always taught in private schools my parents have always believed in the state system.

At uni i was the only one in my halls of around 100 people and all my firends and classmates that had been to private school and none of them seemed to have been let down at all by the system! In fact they had a better grip on reality than me at times.
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Oh thanks, you lot had to go and mention mobile phone bills didn't you!
I have only just paid off an £800 bill run up by my 14 year old step-daughter. The little sod managed to ring up 1200 minutes of conversations and 600 texts. How she made it to her 14th birthday is quite beyond me.
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soc wrote:Oh thanks, you lot had to go and mention mobile phone bills didn't you!
I have only just paid off an £800 bill run up by my 14 year old step-daughter. The little sod managed to ring up 1200 minutes of conversations and 600 texts. How she made it to her 14th birthday is quite beyond me.
That`s why my 2 have pay as you go! If they can`t pay, they don`t go!!
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Isn't it just peachy when you learn the hard way!
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I and mine have pay and go too, and I cannot remember the last time we topped up, though I am down to £1.35
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englishangel wrote:I and mine have pay and go too, and I cannot remember the last time we topped up, though I am down to £1.35
We have PAYG too - I last topped up in December and still have over £4 credit.
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soc wrote:Oh thanks, you lot had to go and mention mobile phone bills didn't you!
I have only just paid off an £800 bill run up by my 14 year old step-daughter. The little sod managed to ring up 1200 minutes of conversations and 600 texts. How she made it to her 14th birthday is quite beyond me.
Sorry mate, but more fool you.

Buy 'em a letter pad and a biro each term. That's all they need, and all I had !
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J.R. wrote: Buy 'em a letter pad and a biro each term. That's all they need, and all I had !
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J.R. wrote: Buy 'em a letter pad and a biro each term. That's all they need, and all I had !
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My Grand-Father only had a blanket, some damp sticks and grass and a box of matches. Wells Fargo was in it's infancy.

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J.R. wrote: Wells Fargo was in it's infancy.
Never heard of it :oops:
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Vonny wrote:
J.R. wrote: Buy 'em a letter pad and a biro each term. That's all they need, and all I had !
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My Grand-Father only had a blanket, some damp sticks and grass and a box of matches. Wells Fargo was in it's infancy.

What more d'you want ?
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Jude wrote:School fees etc....
been there
had the bank screaming
had the kids screaming
am still screaming
as there are still bills to pay!

an arm and a leg for a decent education - hmm wonder why so many people now send their offspring to private education... nothing to do with the fact that the state system lets so many of us down???????
My dear wife Jane and I put our kids thru state education at primary school and would, politically, like to have gone the same way for secondary schools but having seen the so-called best ones in London I am afraid that to have sent them top any would be cruel

I don't know anyone who has done so without regretting it

What REALLY annoys me is that there is not a tax break for people who decide to pay for their kids education
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