Hope is not an Effective Financial Strategy

debtfreeoneday

Hope the Head eased quickly. 

shangaijimmy

I managed my run, but I won't lie it didn't feel pleasant. It was so cold, and the wind made it an awful feeling on my head! Anyway its all in the tank now 

Todays item for the charity shop run is a teddy bear that talks along to a few books. So technically its 6 items that have left the house. It has to be said that the charity pile in my garage is getting bigger though...

DD and DS2 are back in school tomorrow (I'd be amazed if it lasts longer than a week), and DS1 is on home schooling for the next 2 weeks. I am officially the evil dictator again for not allowing him to do lessons in his room, informing him that he will be getting dressed, and he will be coming out for a walk with me and the dog at lunchtime!

themadvix

Hope your head is feeling better today Jimmy

shangaijimmy

Well here we go again for home schooling... At least the little un's went in school for 1 day! I feel much better equipped for home schooling this time round, although the colder weather will require a rethink for break and lunchtimes! What bothers me most is the impact to my running program...

Nothing to report moneywise for today. I did repair 2 Nintendo switch controllers for £15 combined so that's like a money saving I suppose. Youtube video's come to rescue again!

South_coast

Take the kids running with you - they need to do PE, right 😀?

turtlemoose

shangaijimmy said:

I did repair 2 Nintendo switch controllers for £15 combined so that's like a money saving I suppose. Youtube video's come to rescue again!

Oooh was it drift that was the problem? One of mine has gone totally squiffy,  I bought an unbranded controller (one you hold in both hands, more like a typical console controller) but sirfussypants, I mean DS8, doesn't like it for some reason I never considered that I might be able to fix the original ....

shangaijimmy

It was indeed the drift problem that's usually the blue one. Repair kits off amazon and search youtube. Its actually quite straight forward to repair just a bit fiddly. 

Suffolk_lass

Whoosh (the sound of that conversation going right over my head). Good luck with the home-schooling

Karmacat

Suffolk_lass said:

Whoosh (the sound of that conversation going right over my head). Good luck with the home-schooling

ditto!  Though I like the sound of the repairs, environmentally speaking.

shangaijimmy

99p TT made this morning, My decluttering has slowed somewhat given the garage is over flowing with recycling (hopefully collected today), plus the charity pile is kinda of blossoming and in the way (again in the garage), plus the actual bin lid won't shut any longer due to its over flowing nature! That collection is due for Saturday (19 days since the last collection for a family of 5 who are good at recycling as well). That said I have thrown away a few bits and pieces of broken toys, or things that have been outgrown and not good enough for charity. 

And onto the elephant in the room...home schooling! We're on day 3 now and we have all settled into a routine. Our schools appear pretty much sorted on what they have set etc... The first morning was truly horrific (genuinely no exaggeration there either). Incorrect links for the DS1 to his his live lessons and he was on the verge of tears thinking he would be in trouble for not being there, links not working to DD's stuff, and DS2 being a little bit ill/tired/not quite right (more on this later). Talking to the reception class teacher yesterday they said they were expecting it, were prepared for it but had been shocked by the number of kids actually in school. They are a double intake so have 2 classes and 33 out of 60 children are in school. As a result they had to spend most of Tuesday redoing all their plans for how it could all work.

Overall i know I was putting too much pressure on myself, when I know that it can not be perfect for 3 of them, plus me trying to deal with a deluge of things work related following Boris' announcement. Did I also mention that for the last 6 months our estate has had constant work being done by BT on their lines and we have periods during the day with internet so slow its like the dark days of dial up??? So yesterday was one such day and we had Mrs SJ hosting conference calls, DS1 on live lessons, DS2 on live lessons, DD with youtube uploaded videos to stream and then me with 2 zoom meetings???

So onto DS2. Monday they were in school and he was great. Tuesday morning he said his breakfast didn't taste right. I thought nothing of it (in our house the milk could quite easily have been on the turn) so he had something else. Now all day he seemed a bit tired whcih I was putting down to the whole routines post Christmas. He ate fine, did all his school work etc... At 3.30pm he was doubled up saying his stomach was hurting and in floods of tears. Quick dose of calpol and he slept from 3.30 till 7.30pm which is definitely not DS2. 8.30pm we receive the school text saying he was a close contact of a positive case... Fast forward to yesterday still complaining that some food doesn't taste right and he's still slightly not quite right. So home test ordered, done and posted back. And we await the results!!! I'm sure all is fine and he has a sore throat, but it does make you stop, pause and think...

Right, first lesson for DD & DS1 is all but complete so I'm off to sort out the next bit... Only 27 days left of the term to go