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Try a terms fees at 3 private schoolsRory 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
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.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!!!)
That`s why my 2 have pay as you go! If they can`t pay, they don`t go!!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.
We have PAYG too - I last topped up in December and still have over £4 credit.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
Sorry mate, but more fool you.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.
J.R. wrote: Buy 'em a letter pad and a biro each term. That's all they need, and all I had !
My Grand-Father only had a blanket, some damp sticks and grass and a box of matches. Wells Fargo was in it's infancy.Vonny wrote:J.R. wrote: Buy 'em a letter pad and a biro each term. That's all they need, and all I had !
Never heard of itJ.R. wrote: Wells Fargo was in it's infancy.
And you was so poor that you had to eat the tarmac off the road fer yer breakfastJ.R. wrote:My Grand-Father only had a blanket, some damp sticks and grass and a box of matches. Wells Fargo was in it's infancy.Vonny wrote:J.R. wrote: Buy 'em a letter pad and a biro each term. That's all they need, and all I had !
What more d'you want ?
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 cruelJude 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???????