Algy
designer
It's 6:40 and I've been home eleven minutes and my back's gone from that office chair again. Can we do the numbers on Monday — I've got a headache the shape of a spreadsheet.
Chapter 85 · Month 40 · Starting a Family
The Bad Day
The cost of childcare, in actual numbers
Oldest line first — the newest line is at the bottom.
Penny
teacher
There's a leaflet on the table — the childminder on Ashworth Road, $310 a week, and before you say Monday: that's over your whole month's invoices. I don't know what we do with that, honestly.
Algy
designer
Right — so we ring her and ask if she does a four-day rate, and I take the Fridays, and that's $248 and one day of me. I know that's me fixing a number instead of the day, but it's the only bit of it I can hold.
Penny
teacher
Fine — Thursday, you ring her, and I'll ask school about the four-day thing. But I want you to ask me how I am, not just what the plan is, some days.
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