>> I expect you have "people" for that sort of thing Peter? Or, an old family
>> retainer it would be churlish to cast out at this late stage in his career?
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>> ;-)
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Chance would be a fine thing! Though, I’m now back in Kenya post Christmas and it is interesting to ponder the cultural differences with these things. Here, if you can afford it, it’s seen as your moral duty to employ people. So if you have a few quid (or bob as they refer to it...) it’s expected you’ll employ a maid, a driver, a garden boy, a security guy, then a housekeeper/nanny/whatever if needed to do things. Bearing in mind that the annual cost of each of them is roughly a 12th of someone in the the U.K. on minimum wage. So, what £1,500 a year. Yet at home, where I technically have a cleaner, a gardener and and a personal trainer doing, combined, around 10 hours a week, plus outsourced car cleaning and ironing it’s seen a slightly profligate. Or lazy ;)
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