make do and mend for tougher times

fuddle

That's me £26 down from ordering 2 work t-shirts and a sweatshirt. The girls have also said to get some flossies to wear as they are so comfy wandering around the dinner hall. Anyone know what the pickle flossies are? Shoes I think! It costs to conform!

Sorry for getting you cross Kate

I've filled in my medical questionnaire for the council house. I wrote about feeling trapped, about how it causes me worry, how my LL attitude brought on a panic attack. How the mould makes me upset. It's all true but reads so trivial. I feel really stupid for documenting it. I cope with it just fine - why should I have greater need over someone else? I'm alright. Still, you do what you have to do. Don't you? I feel, a bit like I'm making a fuss to get my own way.

2tonsils

The soups sound nice elona...I could go for the coconut and spicy lentil...and so will my OH if I don't tell him what's in it LOL


I am hypothyroid (low) as I have Hashimoto's from the celiac disease, both auto immune problems. My immune system got wrecked about six year ago when I had salmonella food poisoning really bad. The endocrinologist I see is very good and with being gluten free and taking just 50 mcg of thyroxine a day we have got it at near perfect levels. He told me something very interesting, that I should take the tablet with a full glass of water half an hour before eating anything, so I take it before I get up and showered. It has worked really well for me taking it that way.

Glad to hear your daughter is on the mend. It will take time for her to build up her energy again.

It never fails to amaze me how much good food intake has got to do with good health.

smileyt_2

I guess I must be on a zero-hours contract then. One of my students has said she is not attending her lectures on Friday. So I won't get paid, that's an afternoon's work and £20 down in one fell swoop. I would still get paid if I get less than 24 hours notice but in this case she has told me three days in advance so I can't claim.

I've seen a job I'm going to apply for. It's full-time but it's so close to home that I could come back at lunch time and take the dogs out. Will be working on my application tonight. It's £15,000/annum which for me would be a fortune and I'd be able to pay into a pension, which I can't now as I don't earn enough. I would have to give up my supported lodgings work, I think, as they prefer you not to work full-time so you have some time to spare for the young person. This would be sad, for me and the charity, but I really have to try and sort something out. Hopefully I would be able to manage the full-time work as it would only be five minutes bike ride from my house. I have a psychological thing going on where I feel panicky if I'm too far away from home. God knows what that's about but I know it wouldn't wash with the Job Centre. Doctor says I just have to keep battling on as I always have done. Just a bit scared that 35 hours might be too much for my health, but it sounds like a fairly easy job with no massive responsibilities or deadlines so I might be able to cope. I guess I could always go back to the notetaking if I couldn't, as they know I'm good at my job.

Sorry, stream of consciousness there. I do think the workers are being squashed from all directions, and like you Mums on here, I worry about the younger generation and how they're going to manage and I'm not even a Mum! I try not to think too much about one of my young lads, who is dyslexic, has Asperger's, schizophrenic episodes and no qualifications. People like him need a miracle and this government is not going to deliver one.

ETA Elona and VJ's Mum, glad your daughters are on the mend.

fuddle

Do we still have apprenticeship schemes or are they gone too? Poor lad has a lot to deal with

Smiley, could your worry be connected with being too far away from Tess and Bruno? (Have I got their names right?) You have a mothers love for your dogs

At one time I wanted my girls to both be university high flyers, now as long as they learn a profession I don't at all mind what they do. Maybe thats the wrong attitude to have i.e. doc's vets etc will earn a fortune and be comfortable but... it cost so much to do it

I think I'm going to have my girls at home for a very long time.

smileyt_2

Fuddle, being too far away from Tess and Bruno is part of it, but I had this problem before I got them, so it's obviously a deeper thing. Hey ho. Life goes on .....

I think my young lad is too old for apprenticeships now, he's 25. But it's a great idea - I might look into it and check it out. He's very hard-working and honest - couldn't tell a lie to save his life (I think that's the Asperger's!) and he really just needs a chance. Thanks for the idea.

Possession

Fuddle I'm the same, I always imagined my children going to uni as DH & I did, but now I'm not sure it's necessarily a good idea. It's just as hard for graduates to get jobs as everyone else. One thing I will be making sure - that they do lots of extra stuff like charity work, Duke of Edinburgh award. When they're just starting out they need to be able to stand out a bit and it will do them the world of good.
Poor DD is asleep on the sofa at last, she has a sickness bug.
DH's 2nd interview this morning went very well he thinks, so we're waiting to hear the results. He's now prepping for tomorrow's interview, he must have been very wicked.

Molly41

kidcat wrote: »

Fuddle - many of my DD6 school dinner staff also work at Co-op too, they are on 5hr contracts at school and zero hour contracts at co-op. None of them work more than 4hrs at co-op. Not that they do not want too, they all say they would rather work at one or the other for proper hours but just cannot get them. But on that basis even the council is doing it, the dinner staff on 5hr contracts will usually work 8-10 hrs per week but by giving them 5hr contracts they only have to pay them the five hrs if they are ill.

Two of my teenage/ adult kids work at coop and both work over 12 hours a week as their standard contract. Often they do a lot more than that. The coop are very ethical employers and have fitted in with my kids educational commitments. By having more part-time staff they can be flexible with all their staff and meet home/work balance needs more effectively. If a member of staff goes off sick or is on holiday it is much easier to cover.

fuddle

Yeah, that could be the asperger's. I know of many children who see things only at face value. Some could fib for Britain mind you

I always think of Mary Portas Knicker machinists. Kds/people with not a chance in society given a break at doing something well out of their comfort zone and ending up owning it... and excelling. We need to pour so much into our young ones. Gawd I'm depressing today. I feel a bit like a dog with a teddy, thrashing about and getting nowhere with the issues. I'm shushed!

Bigjenny

Fuddle are these the Flossies the girls are mentioning. http://www.flossyplimsolls.co.uk/

Jenny

fuddle

Bigjenny wrote: »

Fuddle are these the Flossies the girls are mentioning. http://www.flossyplimsolls.co.uk/

Jenny

You can get them in every colour imaginable They are £19.95 though. My mam is going to Portugal next week, I think I'll ask her to keep an eye out for some cheaper ones over there.

The only thing left is some black leggings, then I'm in with the possie :rotfl: go me. Right, I really am shushed now