22 Foxhole East

Baileys_Babe

Go for the job, both yourself and the charity will benefit 😃

My ideal job would be working from home 2 or 3 days a week.

apple_muncher

I'm now suffering from loft envy 😎

f0xh0les

I mean, I cannot see how (once scaffold is erected) it would take more than half a day to install, -judging by the 2 hours it took to remove the rotten frame of the skylight we had, build the frame to the right size, fit the window, do the flashing, and replace the tiles on the new one which was a different size.    It would be a  heck of a difference to a sloping roof attic bedroom in 12 hours wouldn't it be?

It is nice to have an idea of what you *could* do with the loft space.

It is hammering down now - proper monsoon rainstorm, can't even see out the window it is hitting it so hard.

Lunch was a mix and match affair, one portion of cauli curry, 3 portions of leftover rice became a nice mushroom and onion fried rice, half a bag of oven chips, a 6 pack of tiny tiny  ys pies, one ys pizza, lots of salad veg, all out of the fridge,  I raided the fruit bowls and added 3 punnets of rasps and 1 punnet of strawbs to 2 massively enormous mangoes, 7 kiwi and 7 nectarines.  5/5 a day with cream.  It filled an entire glass mixing bowl (that I use for bread dough rising), and there is enough left over for supper tonight.

Revelation of the day (not in the league of yesterdays velux discovery) is .... I have a 2 baking trays that are about 1cm too narrow to fit as shelves, but are a smidge too wide to fit on the shelves the cooker came with , so everything bakes at a 30 degree angle \        Today I thought I would make some 'ears' out of a folded piece of tin foil - about 7 cm wide, folded it 3 times and moulded one each to the sides of the slightly too short baking tray, and it fits perfectly! so next time I am baking biscuits, I can double the amount I can cook at once.  Hooray!   Someone needs to have a word with these cooker/ baking sheet manufacturers and get them to work together so things actually work. 

Until then, bacofoil is my friend, and the  'ear extensions' are living in the grill compartment, as I will use them over and over again.

Baileys_Babe

Our previous house would have benefitted from swapping the Velux windows to the balcony version you would have had a great view.

I have a cupcake tin that fits our oven perfectly, no need for a shelf. I wish I had baking trays and at least another cupcake tin that also fitted. As you say a bit of standardisation from cooker/cook wear manufacturers is needed, until then keep using the foil ear extensions.

greent

Another vote here for you going for the job - perfect timing with DS4 starting secondary school

And just to confirm that the ni/ state pension/ credit for children thing stops after youngest is 12 - my youngest turned 12 in May this year and the credit works for the whole of that tax year (so until Apr 2022 for me) When my eldest was born it was 16 but sadly changed at some point x

f0xh0les

Numbers!!  Have left myself very short this month, but hoping that the CTC muppets cannot count and will give me free money in a random fashion again this year.  It is becoming traditional.

Monthly interest was £126.18

which is £4.07 daily (going down 5p each month),

and the current mortgage balance is £81,999.99 as of just now when I paid the o/p of £565.64

So now I have £60 a week until the child benefit comes in.   Eeek!

I am officially a basket-case now, as I know that there is one week  left til A Level results day, and 9 days until GCSE results day.

Poor DH really is the fiscal equivalent of The Invisible Man - we have been on to Student Finance to get the ball rolling with DS1's student loan, I filled in all my details fine,pressed enter, job done.   DH tried - sorry we do not have enough information to process you.  So he rang them up, sorry, you are not on the system.

He has a job, an NI number, an address, a P60, but computer says no, and so he has to fill out all the forms in wood format, and post them via the medium of pigeon.  He is so unimpressed.  On the plus side, I have free stamps!

We think it has something to do with being born in Africa (no post code), living across the Irish Sea (no post code),  coming  to UK for University, having a student loan before he was allocated an NI number, and changing from Mr to Dr.

But it was not too much of a shock, as we have had it with the mortgage  as well - no credit history, so we had to push me forward (good credit history but no salary) to make him ( good salary but invisible credit history) look better.  

It is never easy!

Oh, and DS2 is back to being an obnoxious toad.

f0xh0les

Forgot to say -  I heard Miley Cyrus' cover of  Nothing Else Matters and after screaming 'No No No no no! Make It Stoooooop! at the radio,  I wondered why nobody just told her not to do it.  She is just not Metallica.    East 17 would have done a better job.

f0xh0les

I have stripped all the horrid nasty fabric off the mattresses and booked a bulky waste collection from the council (it is free) for the springs and metal bases.  Will all be recycled and out of my house (in 3 weeks - it is currently in the front garden, hidden from the road by a bush, and under a tarp. I decided wrestling it into my car would not be fun. So I am not doing it.

DH's car is too new and shiny (to us anyway) to be used for tip runs.

House hoovered, living room cleaned, and I am about to make a banoffee pie with a shortbread base , because that is what I can make with what I have in the pantry.  I am trying not to spend any money today

Sliced 2 Pave loaves (S&M Bakery, not just any old tat, S&M tat) and made lazy-girl pizzas for lunch - they went down well.

Will have to have a 'leftovers lunch' soon - the fridge is currently home to 1portion of C&P pie, 2 portions chilli, 1 baked sweet potato and 1/2 tin of beans and  2 pizza slices -  but then again, I might get up in the morning and half of it will be gone.  

I might have reacted a little passive aggressively to the complaint there was only one type of cereal in the pantry (apparently oats do not count, and neither do golden syrup microwave oats packets - grrrr)  There are currently 10 boxes of cereal in the pantry, 6 different choices (not counting oats or flavoured oat sachets). So DS1 complained there was only coconut milk, and 2 types of almond milk, and when was I going to buy soya milk  so he could eat the cereal    - 8 litres of soya milk were on the next shelf down in the pantry.   I cannot win!! Even when I buy the stuff they still manage to find something to complain about.

I cannot wait for DS1 to have to do his own shopping and annoy himself at how much he eats. I have a friend whose daughter went off to Uni, in the next city over, last Autumn, and she keeps popping home for the weekend and announcing 'food is really expensive isn't it Mum??' whilst raiding the fridge and freezer for stuff to take back with her.   They lack self-awareness don't they?  Another acquaintance's son has just finished Uni - he is living back at home over Summer until he starts a job in another city in Sept - they are also horrified at how much and how often he feels the need to eat. They are baking all their bread daily, and keep running out .  First world problems eh?

The moral of the story seems to be that kids think their parents' food is free. 

greent

DS1 was horrified at how much cheese costs when he started uni - he is a cheese monster and loves strong, sharp and unusual cheese. Mostly he now buys L1d1's finest when at uni.... (as opposed to the locally produced 'artisan' stuff he favours when at home..... )

trix-a-belle

I would have thought you'd be at the mattresses with a pair of wire/bolt cutters to fit them in the car or the bin fh!
Ah complaining that something can't be found when its right in front of them just because they fail to open their eyes is a male thing