I've just had a long (59m 43s) conversation with my younger son who tells me that not only does his partner submit her PhD thesis this evening, but also that his part-time casual work, which has interested him greatly, has become full-time and permanent. His salary means that he will, for the first time, pay income tax as PAYE and that he will probably earn enough in the current financial year to pave to pay some.
He really enjoys his job as well, which is good, and his commute is a walk short enough that the cup of tea he takes with him is still hot when he arrives. If he were to work in London his season ticked would be over £5k a year and he would spend about 4 hours a day on a train. He gets the pleasure of living in a olde worlde village with good facilities and no commuting costs.
My younger son has always been the jammiest bugger around.