A lot of shrinks seem to live in Belsize Park too ... might be handy.

As always, facts don't seem to matter with LJ. If there is a book or movie that everyone's talking about, she'll find a way to make sure everyone knows she's JUST LIKE the leading lady.

It's something you'd expect of a teenager, not a person her age.

[quote=Roesia;84549942]As always, facts don't seem to matter with LJ. If there is a book or movie that everyone's talking about, she'll find a way to make sure everyone knows she's JUST LIKE the leading lady.

So true! (sorry, my quote above hasn't worked properly.)

I see that she managed to get someone staring open mouthed at her in today's farticle

I'm going to do the 'open-mouthed stare' next time I see her wandering around Upper Street in Islington. Then I might get a mention in the 'Drivelly' or a farticle.

Oh yes, the bingo card was well and truly stamped this week! See also

(1) Screeching to a halt at the sight of animal in road (and then wondering why other drivers dare to challenge her dangerous actions)
(2) Chasing another driver to the lights and banging on the window (how many more times?)
(3) Calling driver's children "his AWFUL BROOD" despite presumably only seeing them briefly and fleetingly during window-banging episode (Yeah that's right Liz, it's his children who are the awful ones here, not the crazed aggressive strange woman hammering on the windscreen terrifying the heck out of the poor little mites).....
(4) Waxing lyrical about yet another house she can't possibly afford to live in, then acting the victim when prospective landlords make perfectly reasonable rules regarding her animals....
It just goes on and on and on.

With her credit record and all those animals, plus the prospect of being moaned and whined about in her 'Diaries' and Farticles,I can't see that ANY sane landlord is going to rent to her. But she could always buy a second-hand horsebox and ... er ... furnish it? Brass fittings on the door, naturally. But definitely NOT a pine [shudder] cabinet bearing the single gas ring. She could park it in the Sainsbury's car-park in Islington, use the loo and washbasins in the Ladies in M & S - and be so wonderfully near to SpaceNK and Abigail Ahern in Upper Street.

Just trying to be positive and helpful

One positive about reading all of the chaos is, that it makes most ordinary people feel relatively organised and sensible. I wish I had got paid all that much, for writing such unbelievable stuff (was it ever better in the past?)

Today's Dreary entry was beyond belief.

There was no further mention of the Baker having kidnapped Prudence nor her present whereabouts. Did this happen in a parallel universe? Was it all a dream or has LJ been telling porkies?

It seems her relationship with D. Scrace is back on again, despite having reported him to the police.

How on earth can she afford to rent that flat in Belsize Park or even find the money to pay the extra deposit and two months rent in advance.

Like others on this thread, I wonder what will happen to her cats and the horses.

Perhaps the heading of next week's Dreary will be: In which I hide my menagerie in the attic and stable my horses in the hallway.

That being the case, the following week's caption would be: In which I am evicted.

I am now imagining a Tammy-style comic strip entitled My Family In The Attic, in which orphan girl Liz, sporting threadbare jodhs, boots and a single buttery soft cashmere sweater, finds a home in a ramshackle old house in Belsize Park, owned by a Mysterious Old Lady who allows her to live in a tiny room in return for housekeeping duties. But Liz has a secret - she's responsible for 20 cats, 3 collies and two ponies! Read on as Liz finds a key to the dusty yet spacious attic space, and smuggles the ponies up the stairs in the dead of night...

No, it wasn't.

I started reading Liz Jones many years ago when she was married and living in Islington. I sympathised because my relationship was on the rocks, as was her's, and I found it interesting to read her story.

Well, she got a divorce and moved to a big house in the country. She kept adopting animals, annoying the neighbours and wasting loads of money on designer gear.

I left my partner, got a small flat, and no animals. I didn't annoy anyone and bought stuff from charity shops.

Result; I'm happy (in spite of some health problems) and solvent.

I've recently read a couple of Liz's diaries again, and find that she is still far from happy and completely insolvent.

I feel, now as then, that someone should take her aside and tell her forcibly that happiness does not reside in craving material things and indulging yourself. (I know she thinks she isn't self indulgent, but she is - even rescuing the animals she does for herself, not for them, as she obviously can't look after them properly).

But I suppose people have tried to tell her, and it just doesn't go in.

It is bonkers. I tried to rent when I moved to Suffolk and pretty much all of the adverts stated no pets allowed. I had 4 house cats at the time so I ended up buying a little semi instead. I cant believe any landlord would want her and her animals in a London flat. And I too was wondering about the horses. Surely Liz can't rely solely on Nic ... who doesn't appear to be her favourite person at the moment.

I still don't understand how she can have £3.50 in her purse one week to last her the month and yet she can suddenly find thousands of pounds in deposit money.

Because she's a liar and a bloody fantasist that's why.

When she appeared on "Me & My Eating Disorder" which came out in late October, she said she had 3 dogs, 2 horses and 17 cats. I don't think the Diary timeline has caught up yet to the date when David allegedly stole Prudence? but even assuming it's now 3 dogs, 2 horses and 16 cats - landlords beware!

I first 'discovered' her during a visit to my DM-reading parents when she was going through the marriage breakdown and divorce. My initial reaction to her witterings was 'I'm not surprised your marriage failed when you're happy to write such horrible things about him and everyone you know to a newspaper readership.'

In the intervening years, she's not uttered one single word to make me change my mind about her.

There's a woman sat opposite me in a Costa in Didcot who looks exactly like Liz.
I'm so tempted to ask but have no idea what to say. Or move nearer to eavesdrop......
Why would she be in Didcot though lol!

I wonder if she's a spook?

Try staring "open-mouthed" at her.

If it is Liz, she will mention it in one of her future diaries.

Even if you don't do it, she'll still mention it.

Nah ! M.I.6 like to keep things schtum , she'd be writing all their top secrets in her 'diary' every week.

If Jones is only taking the 3 dogs to Belsize Park, could that be the reason why the Baker reclaimed Prudence?

I don't think we'll be hearing about Prudence for a while. Seems to be some sort of cliffhanger.

That would make sense him reclaiming the cat. I'm mixed up with the time scales here.
I would,nt think many rental properties would allow pets, and how does her credit rating work if she's bankrupt.

Far from me to question Jones's honesty ... BUT I don't believe a word about all those 'feral cats' she's supposed to look after. After all, these appeared in her writings when she lived in Exmoor. And according to her, she took them all to Yorkshire, plus her own moggies, and the doggies, in the back of her car - she actually mentioned, as I recall, the pussies all squalling in their baskets en route. Um, what the hell size car was THAT?

Now, as an ancient Cat Lady, what I do know about feral cats is that it's damn hard to catch them. And if one can, then transfer them all hundreds of miles away, unless one is going to lock them into the house, many of them will just bugger off immediately.

Anyway, I wonder where she's now going to roost with her menagerie. And yes, why no mention of the sainted Nic for ages? Someone's going to have to care for Jones's nags, unless she's thinking of turning them out to pasture on Hampstead Heath or Primrose Hill.

Didn't she mention a while back that the sainted Nic and herself had a bust up and that she (Nic) had moved away?. I f my memory serves me correctly Nic threatened her with a tribunal.