Pay off mortgage and start having fun!

newgirly

Hi vix, from what I can gather the wage boost is for staff who are unable to work during the period so it doesn’t cover the still working staff. The company was looking to cut costs prior to this and is still trading (mostly online anyway) and has just put loads of orders through to us so we have loads of work. Sounds harsh but I doubt it will have had an impact yet ....

Keeping the cat out is a problem, all animals to live in ds2’s bedrooms except the rats which are in a huge cage that’s going in dds room while she is away. I guess it will give us something to do, her rats are a shady looking bunch (mostly rescued) I did say, they better not be white with red eyes but some are 😆
Should be all with us later in the day and then the silence ends.  

Plans for Sunday aka Mother’s Day 💐 :

Breakfast in bed - made by me 😀

clean whole house 

watch a film 

Eat or cook up what’s on the turn 

Do washing 

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums and people with mums and grans, still here or otherwise. Such a shame most of us won’t get to spend the day with our families 💕

themadvix

Good point about the wages. But DS should definitely get his 80% then.

 Happy Mothers’ Day to you, enjoy your breakfast in bed! 

Moneyfordreams

Happy mothers day.
My girls will be here... I'm hoping DD1 will bring a game to play as too much TV / phone is making GD a pain. 
 

newgirly

I hope so Vix! 

Hope you have a good day mfd’s and good luck with reducing the screen time, hard enough at the best of times , nigh on impossible for any length of time now 😱 

I’ve had a virtual card and WhatsApp call with dd, aunt and mum today, keeping busy and have deep cleaned en-suite and bathroom so far, I’m not sure why but imminent possible illness is making me panic about having a clean and tidy house, it’s not even virus related to be honest, as when we had a break-in a couple of years ago my biggest relief was the house had just been totally cleaned and tidied that day, so when he police came in during the night it was fine 😂 

newgirly

I have just had the best Mother’s Day present ever from ds1 a video message from James Buckley (jay in the inbetweeners) saying hi and wishing me a happy Mother’s Day and telling me that I am a bus w*****  😂  It’s certainly cheered us all up! 

Need to put rewatching the whole series again on my to do list this week 😁

newgirly

Busy day considering we can do much! Ds2’s girlfriend has had one of her rats put to sleep as he was very poorly last night (midnight at the emergency vets 😱) serious money, luckily I text ds2 before he agreed to pay for a separate cremation and urn. He is now buried in a large plant pot in our garden ready to have a rose bush planted when we are back to normal. As if these times aren’t strange enough 😆

Dh still at work but following guidelines and doing split shifts on different days, plus there are currently only four employees in total , so two per shift working separate floors , cleaning down , no use of public transport and then isolating at home after. Hopefully it will be enough to keep safe. 

Things have gone very old style here very quickly, I’ve become a total control freak over food and am doing all the cooking and people are basically eating what I decide and when 😂 Today I decided to go to the bakers for the last time for a few days, it’s a 30 sec. walk away and is barricaded with crosses and lines on the floor /contactless etc. But it was so early it was shut, the butchers however was open and empty so for the front door I bought 2 x packs of sausages. £20 😱😱😱 I didn’t hear him and paid then saw the receipt when I got home, they are big packs but wow I’m used to Aldi prices. 

Other online food purchases today are :

3kg of pancake mix needing just water adding £13 

3 kg Nutella , yes 3 whole kg 💕 £21 

A box of little wrapped biscuits £20 

Vast amounts of money but they are all already in dietary shock eating my homemade soups. Last nights dinner of chicken “style” stew was dished up to “I’ve got a golden ticket” playing in the background. I was quite proud of making dinner for four adults from one potato one chicken breast and a cabbage but apparently it was not the best 😂  we have 3 x  veg boxes from Riverford on repeat order which would be ok but I keep giving stuff away! So I need to give mum and dad, little brother, and great aunt and uncle some. Not sure how yet though, little brothers can be left at work for collection, not sure if I can drive to drop off for great aunt though? She’s on 17th floor with a wheelchair bound 87 year old and only a tiny local shop nearby.... 

Dds friend is having a tough time, severely asthmatic and been forced to sign a zero hours contract last Thursday so no help,still travelling on public transport. With a disabled foreign mum who doesn’t speak English , teenage brother with mh issues and they don’t have much ☹️ Dd dropped some shopping off before the lockdown and we sent over some toiletries and lemsips just in case as we don’t have tons of paracetamol.  Frightening what some people have to cope with at such a young age and no other family to lean on in the country. 

Our local town seems more preoccupied with which restaurants provide the best haute cuisine at the moment, don’t get me wrong I want these businesses to survive but I do feel like some are treating it like a business opportunity. Just saw a post from a local bespoke designer blind shop in town offering a discount to nhs staff at the moment. Feels like cynical advertising to me, food and supplies yes, designer blinds though?! 

Ok rant over 😆

South_coast

NG, you are superwoman.... Actually, you're not superwoman (no-one is), so please make sure your nearest and dearest are provided for before spreading the net wider. Dreadful as it sounds, you can't help everyone and you will just keep hearing of more people you think are worse off than you and need your help. Please prioritise your close family (and you can leave things for your Great Aunt and Uncle outside their door - climbing the 17 flights will definitely count as your daily exercise too) 

Take care ❤

greent

Sorry to hear about your job, ng xx

newgirly

😆 thanks SC, I hear you 😉 I would get to her to pop down in the lift as I’m too scared to go that high and too unfit to walk it! Hi greent , hope all is well with you 🙂

Bit more shopping done today, £35 on wild game meat 🤢 they all like it and it’s available still! Apparently the bakers is now only doing home delivery and I can’t get through, living off bread and Nutella was my plan 😁. We did have a bit of luck today as I cleared and rearranged the cupboards so I know exactly what we have and tried to shove something in a tiny top cupboard I don’t use, got a chair to have a look and found a bottle of Buck’s Fizz and two bottles of red I’d put up there at Xmas! Much excitement from everyone 😂 Are all you mfwer’s still going out shopping or living from what you have ? This seems to vary a lot, personally I’m in the trying to not go at all camp for the next few weeks if we can. I think to some of my real life friends I may appear a bit odd as they’re is food in the shops and the smaller ones are empty. 

Need to look at the finances now, I’ve been actively avoiding it, getting a handle on the situation at home like living and eating arrangements has been enough lately , but I think the time has come....

South_coast

I've not shopped since Saturday and should hold out until this Saturday. Have run out of eggs, black pepper,  butter, frozen broccoli, on my last bin bag, one portion of potatoes left and about 2 portions of frozen fruit (have this every day for breakfast) - so I hope the shops are well-stocked when I do venture out 😯! It's definitely making me think about the best use of my freezer and focus on ingredients for several meals rather than "meal items": Veg wellingtons from Lidl, bad (bought in a panic when there wasn't much else in the shops, but take up too much room for just 2 meals); bag of frozen fish fillets, good (very flat and makes 4 meals). I also froze bananas for the first time ever, as I knew they wouldn't last until I was next planning to go shopping!