The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
More Quotes by Sue Townsend
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
Live with all of your senses.
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.