Yes, Happy New Year to you, Rupert, and to everyone else! My husband - a secondary school
teacher - was pure dormouse for most of the past fortnight too. Alas, with five children on board,
only one of us can be a dormouse. Grrr.
Absolutely right about the £175 ACE recommendation. But if you're asking how we poets manage
to make a living in general when not receiving such a dizzily high sum of money, all I can say is,
we don't. Well, I don't, anyway. I do my unpaid housewife & mother thing 75% of the time and my
writer/poet/novelist thing when the kids are asleep. Which is not often enough, in my opinion.
More laudanum! So we live off my husband's steady wage and buy new shoes for the kids only
when I manage to sell something. Which is, again, not often enough! It can be a struggle. But it
beats working on the check-out, let's face it.
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