‘It’s okay, it will do for six months until we buy a house,’ were my famous last words when we looked around a rental house in Sheffield to get into our chosen school catchment area.
Six months turned into six years in the ‘okay’ temporary rental house. Ironically, there were no school places in the catchment area when we moved and all three kids had to …
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