22 Foxhole East

f0xh0les

They would notice as soon as they got hungry!
I am jolly organised this morning, did all the laundry and the last bits are in the dryer.

DS3 did parkrun with DH, and I have made the soup for lunch for the dissenters, and the l/o Indian stuff is packaged and ready to be reheated for lunch with Idli.

Coffee has been drunk, and the kitchen cleaned and washing up done. I still have to fold my laundry mountain, but first a nice cup of tea and see what else I can knock off my list.
Might have a utoobe tutorial on how to lay floorboards.

Kittenkirst

f0xh0les wrote: »

If in doubt, or debt, make sure there is a pudding. The kids do not give a stuff if they are made to eat something on toast or soup, if there is a big old pudding and custard on display.

This is also true for many adults, myself included :rotfl:

f0xh0les

Well it is something reinforced by filling the boxes at the f/b. They get tea or coffee, and biscuits, rice pud or custard and some form of chocolate bar or choc covered biscuits along with their soup/beans/fruit/cereal/milk/fruitjuice/meat/fish/veg tins plus pasta or rice. Quite generous for a 3 day package.

We are getting quite a lot of fresh veg in too, from the community cupboard scheme (some are called community fridges ) who rescue f&v from supermarkets to stop it going to waste, and it often has a good few days on the bb date as they have overstocked or somesuch nonsense. It is not a foodbank thing, it is a save from landfill thing, so I am quite happy to liberate the odd pack of veg or 6 after the clients have been in.

The laundry mountain has been defeated, and the odd sock box numbers a mere 27 friendless souls. If they are still there on NYE they are off to cloth recycling.
Finally finished the Dark Crystal series

Nothing else has been done.

chumpy45

Loved the story of the bowl and spoon in the bedside drawer. I can't tell you how many mouldering cups and bowls I have collected over the years. I could have shares in penicillin production :rotfl: Sounds like you've been super organised this weekend. My laundry has escaped me I'm afraid. The ironing/folding pile is currently giving me the evil eye from the corner of the room and another pile is about to go on the airer. I will have to sort out at least tomorrow's requirements in a minute. Have a good week.

kerri_gt

chumpy45 wrote: »

Loved the story of the bowl and spoon in the bedside drawer. I can't tell you how many mouldering cups and bowls I have collected over the years. I could have shares in penicillin production :rotfl: Sounds like you've been super organised this weekend. My laundry has escaped me I'm afraid. The ironing/folding pile is currently giving me the evil eye from the corner of the room and another pile is about to go on the airer. I will have to sort out at least tomorrow's requirements in a minute. Have a good week.

I managed the ironing but the laundry needs doing still.

F0xh0les I'm exhausted at what you've been up to this weekend. Must confess I did also have a little chuckle at the bowl and spoon too...you could see it as a compliment to your pudding skills

f0xh0les

I might have expected it from the 17 yr old, but DS4 is still 9. DH said 'at least he put something away in a drawer'.
Oh the shame!

f0xh0les

Well the clocks have gone back, and that noise you can hear is the sound of guilt being piled high on my head.
Yeah, the nights are darker, so the old people are being manipulative. Step-Gran is now without her panic button as there is something wrong with it, she can't remember where she got it from (England is not an answer!), or who she pays for it (arrgh!) or where the service agreement is, or her bank statement (liar - she knows full well).
And she choked on an oven chip on Sunday night and nearly died. Oh the pain in her throat is unbearable. And everyone has a cold and if she catches it she may die. And why am I looking for a job anyway? surely the minimum state pension will be enough, why do I need to pay in to the system. Surely I have enough to be doing without working (as I lie here on my sun lounger sipping a cocktail). Urgh! DH will surely have enough pension to keep me.

DH accidently unplugged the phone on the weekend, and m-i-l had already started sending passive/aggressive texts by Monday morning. Dh dealt with her while I was at the f/b. Sadly they did not deal with the washing up, or cleaning up, but I felt so rotten last night with my rubbish sudden head cold, I have left it until today. I have sneezed all night long.



I am looking forward to toad in the hole tonight, but the weather forecast is rainy and horrid, so I am going to cancel the celebrations of religious intolerance and not go out tonight. I will make a big bowl of popcorn each and they can hide behind the curtains going 'oooh' and 'aaahhh' from the safely of the living room radiator. I get a year off every 3 or 4 years. It is writ somewhere.

Step-gran is 80 in 10 days - I am going to have a look at M&S flower arrangements and maybe send her one to be delivered. I am not going over there. This is what the choking/incontinence/panic button / I am soooo helpless! nonsense is really all about. I have given her the number for Age UK - NI branch and am hoping she can understand their accents enough to see if they are the ones who she rents her equipment off.

Not sure what has bitten m-i-l on the bum. She is probably making herself upset that we are not going over there for Xmas, although she does not really want us over there, but it is a pretty rubbish celebration without visitors. We are all guilty of the Disneyfication and Hallmarkification of the season , I know, cos we have no visitors and I find it pretty rubbish with nobody wanting to leave the house for days on end. The Films have already started on Channel 5. Ding Dong merrily and all that jazz.


I think I might need to rescue a dog. I have no-one to talk to now the hamster is dead..... It would also force me to walk every day. Mr Woof is def. in my future. Plus he will be more talkative and more grateful for receiving food than my brood.

f0xh0les

I have numbers!!!
My mortgage is now standing (or sitting) at £94,999.99 So sub £95k :j:j:j:j:j:j

The monthly interest was £125.32 and the daily interest rate was £4.04 I still have no idea why last month was £2.51 a day, it must have been some kind of automatic recalculation nonsense. But there you are. Back on track with the proper amount, and this means .....that in January I am on track to be sub £4 a day in interest. Which is a large reduction from the initial rate, not even 4 years ago, of £6.12 a day. Every day.

And that is why we repay early children. All those relatively small amounts add up.

apple_muncher

Lovely mortgage figures - well done you!


Hope the head cold shifts quickly.

Pooky

I've sat and binge read your diary over the past few days whilst nursing the same stinky head cold and feel like I need to mourn the poor hamster, it seems like you only got him on Saturday and now he's gone (the perils of reading back from the start). Hope he had a decent flower pot burial and didn't get put in the food waste like all our delightful "gifts" from the cats. I couldn't bury them all, the garden level would raise by a foot a year.

Your mortgage figures are outstanding, has DH cottoned on yet or is oblivious of the overpayments?

Please don't get a job, you need to write on here several times a day to keep us all entertained, either that or write a book!