The most terrifying and shameful thing that's ever happened to me... and it was my own stupidity that caused it: LIZ JONES
I'd sooner have flown to the moon than gone for a hike with a rucksack (did the couple not have pets in their Welsh smallholding?) I was too scared to go outside. When my house was being sold from under me, I'd reluctantly, hurriedly walk my dogs along the bridle path, not even noticing the beauty of the purple Pennines, convinced that when we returned there would be tape across the gate, as though my home was a crime scene. The doors would be locked, and the dogs and I would indeed have to live in a hole, as my debt solutions expert was always telling me.
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