22 Foxhole East

greenbee

greent said:

We have G00gle next mesh network, a set of 3 to help our WiFi. Not the best but better than it was now we've moved them around a bit. Interested in the wired sockets @greenbee - would like to know more, as we are having some floors up - when we find a tradesperson who can and is willing to do the job..... 🙄

An electrician should do it. Mine does enough that he sources his own cable and RJ45 sockets. Previously I’ve had to provide them. I have a panel with 4 sockets next to the BT master socket, and cables going into those from the back of the router. Two sockets in the office, 1 in the sitting room, 1 in the kitchen. But like electric sockets, you probably always need twice the number you think! No harm in putting one in every room next to a double socket. By the time you have networked speakers in every room, or use laptops in them in soon adds up!

f0xh0les

Morning All!

I have numbers!!  Sadly the o/p is less this month due to not having any money

I have plenty of money, but it is in the renovations account  (£19k and DH has £7k), and I am trying to get to £20k

DS1 is moving out this month, the roof still needs doing, and I am pulling up my big girl pants and will sort that asap.

Right then.....

Mortgage currently £81.500

Monthly interest £124.71

Daily interest last month £4.02

o/p was only £64.16 to tidy it up to a nice round number, but that is £64 I will never pay interest on ever again.

2 bed 1 bath terrace house on our road sold for £180k last week.   

Apparently we are now a fashionable area.

Who knew?

On track for sub £80k in December and sub £4 interest soon.

f0xh0les

I have been looking at solar panelling for t'roof.  It could be a £3k saving if I have it done at the same time as the roof comes off.  Something to consider. 

Was volunteering all day, so got nothing else done,  but spent no money, so that was a win.

Found out some gossip, which was fab, and explains many mystifying work related things we have been pondering. I am a genius!

The tea arrives tomorrow!!! - can't wait for a decent cup of tea, I am currently on ys PG rated Tipps (Decaf) and tomorrow I am up early and giving blood after I drop the kids at school, so might treat myself to a coffee while I am out, and whizz around a few shops in the city centre as a reward for being a good little donor.

I will also have survived the first whole week back doing the school run (last week was only Wed-Fri) without murdering my children, who seem incapable of laying out a set of clothes the night before, and packing a bag with necessary items. 

Which made mothernerd's words of wisdom today:  If at first you don't succeed, it's only "attempted murder", so flippin' relevant to my thoughts pre 8.30 this morning, when they all 'scampered happily' out of the doors of my car like some bank robbers in The Sweeney.   

Oooooh I was cross with them all.

Jellytotts

Our solar panels only cost £4k last year so worth shopping around (we went with E.  on.  Had them at our previous house and they were the cheapest here).  Worth getting someone in to do the roof survey before you hold up waiting to get the roof done as sometimes getting all the electrical gubbins in the right place is more hassle than it's worth with lots of floors needing to come up.  Luckily we're in a bungalow this time so far easier, all the big electrical box things and control panels are hidden in the loft and just one smaller box next to the meter.

LadyWithAPlan

I also love Twinings Earl Grey but I cant go cheap o the coffee, the Lidl/aldi stuff just gets thrown away - I drink it black and its too bitter,

Does DS1 also want a Kitchenaid mixer and a Smeg kettle?  It will be great for him to go charity shop or otherwise Dunelm has some great cheap bedroom and kitchen basics.. If he sharing kitchen then some stuff will go missing.  It sounds like you doing a great balance of support and also pushing out the nest. 

I still get sent home with home made food and home grown goodies but thats cos they love to cook and for my dad it is how he shows his love.  I am not complaining I am planning a visit next week for harvest time as they have more apples than they know what to do with so I deliberately did not buy any today,

mark55man

I discovered the joys of earl grey without milk whilst dieting (still Twinings obvs).  Just a little weaker than with milk, very refreshing.  Kind of like a fruit tea, but without the chemical taste

f0xh0les

Good haul at the c/s for DS1 and his moving equipment.  Barely used white single sheets and a couple of double duvet sets are currently on the line.  All spotless and felt like they had never been though a washing machine (in a nice way- not that they were dirty, 2 still had the fold lines from the packet on them).

Need to go out and buy some lunchbox sausage rolls, I have enough of everything else to do me until Thursday morning.  DH has started helping himself to the Jamaican Curry Pasties for lunch for him and DS1 on the day I am at work at lunchtime. Will try and grab another box or two of those (4 pasties for £1), but to be honest I cannot seem to get up any energy to do anything today.

Was coughing last night, so did a covid test at 6am, and came downstairs to drink coffee, and descale the coffee machine and kettle while nobody else was around to complain. Did the washing up, tidied round a bit, got bored, and have stayed bored.

Just doing laundry and being boring.  So a little trip out to buy some sausage rolls might do me good.  I do not want to be ill.  I think I am just going to abscond for a while. I am not needed here, everyone is plugged into one games console or other in their rooms and DH is sulking cos I told him he was being horrible.  So that is it, I am off!  Wish me luck.

ETA: the covid test was negative.  Sorry, forgot to say.

kerri_gt

Ahhh, tis the season of coughs, colds and sniffles. The joys.

I have been decopaging some drawers today, I have found out this weeks it is a lot harder than they make it look on YouTube (i now know why they never show the cutting to a certain shape they plan to stick the paper to, doesn't help I'm very much a perfectionist for such things so bad cutting is a no no). Have just put a top coat sealer on...it seems to be wrinkly, I'm hoping it will unwrinkle as it dries.....

f0xh0les

I absconded, I ended up in the bushes with some old men - they were blackberrying, I was picking apples.

The sun shone down like marmalade and covered us like glue.  Was going to go to the cafe and have coffee and cake, but I could not work the doors to get in   It was not meant to be.

I have  goji berry and currant stuffed apples, with the odd walnut and pumpkin seed thrown in for good measure, and a good helping of cinnamon, just for fun. No extra sugar. 

Now I have 2 big bags of peeled apple slices in the freezer, and a 2ltr pudding bowl of apple puree in the fridge.   There are plenty of apples left at the community orchard.  This may become a regular event for the next few weeks.  I feel better for having been outside, the kids will not complain at having eve's pudding or apple crumble, and I can have stuffed apple for breakfast, which always leads to losing weight.  It is my go-to diet breakfast that I only ever remember at this time of the year after my first scrumping expedition. 

So the diet plan is back on - breakfast sorted, lunch will be soup, suppers will be carb light and veg heavy.

f0xh0les

Flippin' DH has lost 4lbs, I have lost my marbles in this heat, but no weight, but at the rate I am glugging liquid it is not terribly surprising. I should make sloshing noises like a bucket. . 

Lots of drama here, today dh has reported a convicted s-offender who assumed a nom de plume, joined a movement much beloved by teens,  and is trying to reinvent himself as a children's author in another country .  So DH went MENTAL when he found out - completely by accident - and has tracked him down and told the Rozzers.... and all because he g00gled an email address because it was not linked to an academic institution.  Small world innit?

In other news, DS2 is now in charge of his own money, will receive a bank card in the next 3-5 days, and his money will disappear from my banking family of accounts.  Phew!

The top two floors are spotless.  Cleaned out DS2s room as I could not stand it any longer - he has spilled a hole punch at some point, and claimed to have hoovered his room a couple of times, while the room still looked like a snowstorm had hit.  Now it is ordered, and his clothes are in his drawers, he had the good grace to apologise for not doing it properly. Also replaced two of the wooden headboard upright   I I  I I I I I I  pieces, - I cut them to size and drilled a hole in the end and had to go with my 'example' wooden dowel and throw myself on the mercy of the hardware shop - I needed 2 dowels, they sold them in a pack of 20, so now I have 18 left in a glass jar ready to go in the shed, and they can easily be seen, so will not disappear like the other ones I know I own, but cannot put my hand on,  £1.30 spent, but another job off the list of things to be done.  Did anyone notice? Nope! So it must look ok or someone would have complained.

DH went off and had his first haircut in nearly 2 years,  he looks very cute now, and much younger somehow.

Still have not been brave enough  yet to contact a roofer.  That is my Friday job.   Volunteer on Thursday,  Roofer on Friday.

Masses of laundry washed and line dried, single duvets and mattress protectors washed and line dried ready for winter - the leaves have changed colour and have started to drift off the trees here this morning.  I drove through a blizzard of yellowing leaves.  I got very excited, the kids less so.

Going to tidy the living room tonight, DH is gaming so I have the living room to myself - watched Vigil last night - ended up watching the 1st 3 episodes, it is rather good you know?  annoyingly it will clash with Endeavour on Sunday, so will watch it on Monday, and as it is a 6 parter, and Endeavour is a 3 parter, they will end the same weekend. I guess that is when the C-word schedule will start, but Sunday night will be a fun night on tv 3 whole weeks.

In other, other news, the in-laws who were coming at half term and were told we absolutely could not go anywhere as they wanted to see the g-kids, then decided they were not coming about 3 weeks ago due to wanting more than 3 or 4 days with us,  have now decided they are coming at half term at some point (we know it is because her nephew's wife is pg, and mil cannot stand not being involved in her younger sister's first grandchild)  and we are a convenient stopping off point on a horrendously long drive for 70 year olds, so I have told DH to get some dates please.  As they said they were not coming, I have been looking at a London YHA for a few days, and I need to know if I can book it or not. 

Of course the Uni 'reading week' will not coincide with 'half term' as they never flippin' do, so it will be solo parenting, but it can still be fun, plus a quick meet up with DS1 to make sure he is coping.  Then it will be full steam ahead with The C-Word.

The end part of this year is going to whizz by, I think.