The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

fuddle

Horrible situation Mar. Yet again it's a case of the good guys fighting a tick box system for what is right and proper. Consideration? You don't hear that word much these days do you?

Some cheaper cuts of pork are slow cooking. I'm hoping to get a nice curry out of it but not sure about pork and curry together. I don't think it will be offensive.

Really need to look at my lunches - quick grab of fish finger sandwich yesterday and a crisp sarnie today. Not at all good.

I have just over an hour and a half to set to this house/prep for DH watching kids over weekend. Best move but before I do can I ask how much break are you supposed to have by law if you're working 12 hours? I have an hour and 15 mins break tomorrow and not sure if that's enough? I start at 8.30am and finish at 9.00pm I'll be fine and intend on taking a flask of soup but I want to keep an eye on the legalities as it's tough work.

cornishchick

Fuddle.
In general the Working Time Regulations provide rights to:

a limit of an average 48 hours a week on the hours a worker can be required to work, though individuals may choose to work longer by "opting out"5.6 weeks' paid leave a year11 consecutive hours' rest in any 24-hour perioda
20-minute rest break if the working day is longer than six hours
one day off each week
a limit on the normal working hours of night workers to an average eight hours in any 24-hour period, and an entitlement for night workers to receive regular health assessments.

The problem is, in care work the rules are complicated. In my role I may work a 12 hour shift and not get a break.. and I am now unit based. Your role sees you moving from one place to another, so not sure but you can check the rules for dom care on CQC site.
Sorry not much help..

fuddle

No that is a help, thanks cc seems right. I'm starting work 1.5 hours later and finishing and hour earlier so they maybe thinking that it equate to more break time - just a shock to see my day planned to the minute without much wriggle room really. Thanks again cc

kezlou

fuddle, please don't think i'm being patronising honey x

Pasta salad and cous cous last really well in the car.
We have this regularly and doesn't go soggy, along with say some carrot cake or some fruit.
Just thinking of something that you could eat on the go.

kezlou

nightmare mar

We had that in the old house, drug dealers on one side and house a house full of student bachelors. It was an absolute nightmare.
Tell your daughter to make a record of everything thats going on. Don't approach them as they sound quite aggressive, instead once its to 11pm and they making noise call the police and housing place immediately. This is what we were told by the authorities last year.

nutty glad to hear your mums feeling better, i love looking for holidays really brightens the day up.

princess and fairy hope your both doing well

sq you sounds like me haha

But i managed it yay! we now have a mildly clean home, really pleased with myself.
Now its just paperwork to go through.I have literally dumped it on the table ready for when i come back.

Oh and guess what its friday oh yeah! no school tomorrow!:D

starsandmoon

mardatha wrote: »

Has anybody any tips on dealing with really bad neighbours? My daughter just moved into a new house and has got bad people next door. Noise drinking partying and now her tyres been slashed because she complained to the HA. Apparently these folk have been evicted umpteen times and moved on for drug dealing and stealing. The RV wants to go down and kick their door in and haul them out and threaten them lol but I stopped him. Maybe that worked in the old days but I don't think it would work with this lot,

Hi

I deal with this sort of thing in my job. Your daughter needs to report any problems to 101 for an evidence trail and involve her local councillor. Slashing tyres is criminal damage. Are they annoying anyone else? The more complaints the better.

I really feel for her. I had 2 neighbours like this and it took a while for them to be evicted one was raided for drugs!

weeze210

fuddle wrote: »

Goodness no I'm sorry to read of Byatt struggling. Please pass on my wishes and hope for better times really soon.


Pleased to say my oven is in full use this afternoon. I'm making pizza for picnic tomorrow, a lemon curd cake for picnic tomorrow, jacket potatoes for tea and with leftover bread, a bread and butter pudding with bananas.

Lemon curd cake sounds gorgeous, please share the recipe. x
Sorry the post was from ages ago but I would still love the recipe! x

fuddle

Wheeze it was a recipe that was on a seperate Old Style thread. A search would bring the recipe up I'm sure. I would have searched for you but I'm on my phone.

kezlou

wheeze this is the recipe i use, not sure if its the same as fuddles

lemon curd cake

Ingredients


100g margarine
75g caster sugar
2 eggs
175g self-raising flour
½- 1 jar lemon curd



Method


1. Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade. Grease /line a 2lb loaf tin

2. Place all of the ingredients in a bowl and mix together for about 5 minutes

3. Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin level the top.

4. Bake for approximately 40 minutes until browned.

don't know if 5p a slice is within your budget also have a fruit cake similair price let me know if you want it and will post it

monnagran

Mar: That is awful. My DS1 had neighbours like that move in next to him. He said that the writing was on the wall soon after they had moved in. They all went off one evening and came back as high as kites. They had just been back to the house they had previously been evicted from and beaten up the neighbour who'd 'grassed them up'. Things got so bad that his wife wouldn't go out. She stayed in the house with all the curtains drawn and the children couldn't go out to play. People started moving out of the road they lived in. Eventually DS1 started reporting them which earned him a beating that put him in hospital. He and the family did a flit, going back in the dead of night to rescue their furniture. He has kept in touch with old neighbours who report that the road is like a ghost town so many people have moved out. The family were prosecuted and one of them was imprisoned but the father was given community service! Everyone, including DS1, was too scared to give evidence.

Fuddle: Lecture coming up. PLEASE make sure you are eating properly. It's fine to have a sandwich but do try to have some sort of protein in it and some salady stuff and a piece of fruit. Also don't forget to keep hydrated. You can't work these hours on a crisp butty.
Do as you are told. I don't want to have to come down there and put you in detention.

Yesterday I got some cheap bread in the C&C - 25p a loaf. The Drop in will be having bread pudding till it comes out of their ears. I have to take plenty of plastic bags as they all like to take a hunk or two of Bread Pudding away with them.

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