![]() ![]() It's about her getting out of the house and leaving me cooped up with the kids all day for a change. The truth is, this isn't about money at all. Dasboot smash tv#Perhaps she has merely been slow to inherit the entrepreneurial spirit of her late father, Kevin, who as a young man sold hearing aids door-to-door (how did he get anyone to answer?) before going on to build his own TV rental empire and who bought us a Vauxhall Nova to celebrate the trauma of having to take our first baby on holiday to Cornwall. I never expected the girl I married (yes, the one interested in special needs children and who has become the new Queen Mother of not knowing how much petrol costs) to be one day shouting her wares like a fishwife from a market stall in a disused Essex car park. 'Absolutely nothing,' I say, though I feel one of us should be wondering whether this is a suitable activity for a woman still in thrall to a mid-1970s public service ethos that regards profit-making as the evil business of right-wing, moustache-twirling blazer-wearers, and has previously shown amazement that people could want to prostitute themselves earning substantial salaries working for a successful newspaper group, with its subsidised canteens, Bupa cover and lunchtime Tai Chi sessions, when they could be locked up for hours in a classroom and forced to eat school dinners.Īlthough, come to think of it, we did once spend three months traipsing up and down the beach in the south of France trying to get rich by selling ice creams. ![]()
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