Um, the bit about selling up in Somerset to buy the sister a house ?

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I distinctly recall the reason she had to buy the sister a house was because Nic decided she wanted to live in the barn conversion, and that Jones was ordered by a court to do so after sister was turfed out. Anyone else remember that ?

Yes, I commented on that a few posts back. You haven't misremembered. As I said, poor sister. I think sister has a son with her, too.

IN WHICH I decide to give my sister TWO weeks notice that she might have to leave her house. After dropping the bombshell, I cheer her up by telling her how bad it has been for ME. Think of others for a change, why don't you !!
Later, I cheer myself up by going to a small convenience store and lecturing the staff on the need to stock stuff on the off chance that I - LIZ JONES - randomly decide to buy that day. If they don't start treating me better, I might have to stop going there..that'll teach them !!
But I'm still feeling a bit low - if only there were a list of life lessons for women that could help me out..hold on - I know the perfect person; - a random PSYCHIC who also doubles as a fake casting director in the "movie" industry !!

Nice one, IFonly58. But let's hope the psychic/casting director/whatever will help poor old Jones. And Jones must be waiting with baited (or is it 'bated'?) breath, for the 'Famous Movie Star' to come back to her full of enthusiasm for the 'movie script' and promising Hollywood movers 'n shakers panting to produce it. And a publisher begging for the rights to publish her new 'thriller' novel.

Could these recent 'Diaries' be ... just a sort of breathless 'cliff-hanger' and at the last moment, some publisher/Hollywood producer gallops in to SAVE Jones from the rapacious maws of HMRC and her creditors?

Meanwhile, may I suggest that ALL stores in the Yorkshire environs start stocking tofu and plain crisps.

She's so full of it. Swearing that she doesn't spend money on unnecessaries. Then at the end she calls a psychic FFS. That's not exactly an essential expense is it?

Of course it's an essential. Just like dyptique/dipstick candles at £40 a pop, hair coloured at the most expensive hairdresser instead of spending £6 at Superdrug on a packet of Nice'n'Easy and feeding cats on organic prawns caught with hand-made Egyptian cotton lines and transported in a specially converted Lamborghini.

Just because they're not essential to you, me or any normal person doesn't mean they're not essential. You see, we just don't understand what it's like to be Poor Liz.

I don't understand why she still has a column. The best comment ever that I saw, simply said "piffle". But yet it's still entertaining to read all the comments on here, and an amazing catch up/following of all the various BS!

And I feel marginally more sane because, at the top of the Diary page, it says it was first published on the 2nd October at 1.02am!!

Iirc, the sister had put money into the conversion so the house Liz bought her was in lieu of the money she owed her?

If this is the case then it sounds a bit dodgy that Liz 'gave' her an asset that had a secured loan/mortgage on it.

And the vets bills. And employing someone to look after her animals. And the handmade wedding invitations. And she used to run a second flat in London. Even her crisps FFS. You can't afford Tyrell's. Buy a pack of Walkers.

I'm just surprised it took HMRC this long TBH. She's been publicly taking the Mick outofthem.

I spotted this on the train this morning and don't really fancy doing any work yet so thought I'd bring you this piece from Private Eye:

Oh what a great article!

Mind you, I would die if it was about me. I'm evidently nowhere as thick skinned as Jones!

Is an egg white omelette somehow more animal friendly than one using whole eggs? It's surely not vegan either way.

It is if it's made from the whites of those special vegan eggs she tried to sell at one time. (Is that business still in existence or did the curse of the Were-Jones scupper it?)

Good article.
Any one know any more about the house sale?. Will it go to auction?. Can Hmrc really force a house sale.

The company's 'dormant' apparently and Liz resigned as a director almost a year ago.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/c...filing-history

It's still apparently on sale, £850,000. See: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-...-53214913.html

If the bank, HMRC, assorted creditors or whoever foreclose, wonder what they'll flog it for?

Rubbish Name, thanks for the Private Eye article - what a piece of work Jones is and she wonders why no-one likes her. As for an egg white omelette, I perused my Oxford English Dictionary for the word for an egg expert but couldn't find one. But apparently the yellow bit in eggs, IF fertilised, becomes the dear little chick. So presumably, in Jones's world, the slimy white bit surrounding it is 'vegan'. Discuss ...

The dog rescue story ... so it wasn't stuck up in some Yorkshire mountain, but just the other side of a bit of a 'raging' river. I'd be bloody raging if called out to find some stupid bat's untrained dog, when humans might be in REAL trouble somewhere and needing rescue.

But surely not eating the egg yolk is just outdated from when cholesterol in eggs was a big no-no and we should only have one a week? Nowadays we can eat eggs as and when we fancy them but, if we remove the whites, are we condemning the yolk/putative chick to death?

No, Jennifer_Jones, we're only condemning the dear little chickie to death IF the egg has been fertilised beforehand by a cockerel). Lady chickens produce eggs regularly without any randy cockerel being around but they won't produce chicks. Bit like, ahem, women ovulating every month, except lady chickens seem to do it more frequently.

But you're absolutely right, that the insipid sounding 'egg white omelette' started as some dieting/less cholesterol fad. However, I often make Hollandaise sauce, which involves several egg yolks. I then use up the superfluous egg whites to make great meringues - just add caster sugar/icing sugar (some conflicting advice as to which sort of sugar) and cook slowly in a low heat oven. Outside should be crispy and, way I cook them, I like the insides to be ever so slightly chewy.

Thus endeth the cooker lesson

I would like to see the vegan society or someone point out that veganism has clearly defined parameters and is a very strict discipline. No animal derived products of any description, including food, fabrics (including wool), cosmetics or absolutely anything.

Well what do Vegans eat then?

Nuts?

Vegans eat plant produce. Vampyre is correct, vegans do not eat or utilise ANY animal products, from either live or dead animals, so no eggs or milk as well as no meat.

One of Liz's stock rants is about how, when she goes out to formal dinners, the only meat-free option she's ever offered is goat's cheese tart. So, she eats goat's cheese, which comes from - yes, you guessed it, a goat! She's also admitted to eating Parmesan cheese and ... I think fish at one point? And wears leather shoes plus copious amounts of cashmere. Basically, she only says it to make herself look better; like her claims of being a Buddhist.

(I wish she would actually become a Buddhist; one of the principles of which is "right speech": http://buddhism.about.com/od/theeigh...ightspeech.htm


So at least the Dreary and Farticles would be no more.)

The Yorkshire Post seems to have been busy after that article was published:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ease-1-8136020

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...rose-1-8132691

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...rder-1-8139962

Can't say I agree with the suggestion of giving her a reality show, but as to everything else ...

Nice one, seventhwave. Don't forget the 'soft butter leather '.