22 Foxhole East 12 August 2016 at 1:55PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Mortgage-Free Wannabe 3.6K replies 430.7K views

apple_muncher

Sounds like ds1 is having a fab time. Just what you want for your kids when they leave home!

badmemory

They seem to consider all 16 year olds Gillick competent & most 12 -15 year olds

People aged 16 or over are entitled to consent to their own treatment. ... Children under the age of 16 can consent to their own treatment if they're believed to have enough intelligence, competence and understanding to fully appreciate what's involved in their treatment. This is known as being Gillick competent.

Extract from the NHS website

f0xh0les

Just spoke to DS1 who is feeling rotten, sounds like a touch of freshers flu.  Tonight his landing-mates are all off on a £25 a ticket party on a barge, and they have hired tuxedos as there was a strict dress code.  DS1 is staying home and finding other people incomprehensible.

Cornish_mum

So glad to hear that DS1 is settling in well to uni, hope he feels better soon. 

f0xh0les

DS1 has been to the clubs and societies open-event and I think he is getting the idea he can literally do anything he has an interest in, or the motivation to go to.   Suddenly his world has opened up.  Good for him.

DH is (in his own words)  'Spaced Out'.  But still no panic attacks or palpitations.  He slept last night for the first time in a week, nobody was on the landing from midnight until 7am, so I slept well too, but I did keep waking up to make sure dh was asleep I am hopeless!

I am nearly on the red wedge with regards to fuel, but I am not going out to fill up.  The petrol station on the corner of our road was down to one pump only this morning, and from yesterday had a £30 limit per car.  Hopefully they will get over themselves by Monday when the 'squeak of shame' will sound, and the accusing orange light will come on.

Went mad yesterday and cleaned the house and stole DS3 and DS4's laundry while they were at school instead of asking them for it on Saturday morning and getting it on Sunday at 7pm. So it is all washed and dried and on the  line.

I have 6 courgettes in the fridge, and 2 very large yellow snakey courgettes, so I am thinking a carrot, corn and courgette fritter/bhaji type meal this weekend with  chickpea flour - gram flour in Indian cooking is the same as garbanzo flour in middle eastern/ Italian cooking.  Which makes it g/f.  It is the only way to make 2 of my kids eat courgette. They love it as an Indian crispy fried ball with a plate of salad, mango chutney, and a coconut raita.  Happy days!  Also on the menu plan is Cornish Pasties (homemade pastry), Lasagne, Chinese steamed buns ( like a bao bun, but the size of a cricket ball and stuffed with mock shredded hoisin duck ), a Pizza, a chilli,   and possibly some fafalel, as I have a whole stack of WW ys wraps in the freezer. - the wraps fried until golden make a very acceptable tortilla chip substitute, or with cinnamon and icing sugar as a wafer substitute for ice cream.  Honestly it is no great surprise I am not a size 8. 

f0xh0les

Today is the end of an era. DS2 is 17 tomorrow, and I have just made him open his online banking facility of the account I made him open last week. I have just transferred his whole savings accounts, and taken £180 cash from his room, and now he is the master of his own money.   He has been resisting this with all his might for the last 3 years.   Mostly because he is a lazy contrary little bu88er.  Now he has a card, and a pin, and he can please himself.

Now my bank homepage looks very depleted with no regular savers or savings accounts  for him and DS1. I have been in complete financial control of myself since I was 13 so I do not understand why they would not want to be.   

Now I only have control of DS3 and DS4.  DS4 would spend every penny he had twice.  DS3 has slightly more control. 

Last laundry on the line, time for a kitchen scrubathon.

f0xh0les

Have you ever had to replace a washing machine door gasket clasp? No?... well up until half an hour ago neither had I.  Who even knew the rubber thing on the front of the washing machine was held in place by a glorified zip tie? Not me, anyway.  Had to take the door off to fit it back, but it stopped water pouring out of the front of the door, and got the PE kits washed and on the line. 

Gloriously sunny here today after a grey morning, so moved some of the plants to other places where they have more space now that other things have died back.  Found a massive surprise ninja cucumber hiding under a leaf, so we ate it for lunch with' free courgette' fritters. 

Supper tonight is pizza - dough is rising, sauce is made -   I have baked an apple snickerdoodle (no, me neither) with walnuts, and stuffed and baked some apples, and made a shortbread base for DS2s birthday millionaires' shortbread  tomorrow.  So all in all quite a productive day, and an impromptu bath of the kitchen floor.

kerri_gt

At least the kitchen floor is also clean now  😁 

f0xh0les

I have just completed DS4s cookery homework, making him weigh out all his ingredients, and trying to find some kind of oven-ware small enough to fit a crumble with only 2 apples (???).    

Now I am sat down with a cherry cider, and a pat on the back for making a  truly magnificent millionaire's shortbread, and raising DS2 to the ripe old age of 17 without serious mishap.

They are all full of sugar, and are rather happy old chaps, despite DS3 smacking DS4s head with the car door when escaping into the torrential downpour this morning.  He just did not see DS4 scrambling across the back seat to follow him out, so nearly knocked him out on the window. Why DS4 did not just get out of his own side of the car is beyond me!

Anyway, volunteering done now until Thursday,  DH is physically in the Uni building on Wed and Thurs  for meetings, and he is very not happy about it.   He is slightly less spaced out, and the giggles have left him, but he is permanently plugged into his laptop, be it watching something, listening to something, twittering, or gaming.  Conversation is practically non-existent.  I feel invisible.

Also found Bare Naked Noodles, which are made with Konjac, and are practically 0 calorie, well, half a packet of noodles is 15 calories, which, combined with a 37 calorie packet of miso, makes a very low cal, very filling meal. Stuck 2 or 3 tenderstem broccoli in with some bamboo shoots and a carrot just to be healthy.  Blissful meal.   

Probably wise considering the millionaire's shortbread being about a billion calories.  

Picked up a jumper I can wear as a dress for £2, 3 mugs for 50p each, some upholstery studs for 50p, and 9 wooden doorknobs for 95p, so now I have a project.

f0xh0les

and I can trawl the rest of the charity shops tomorrow, I only made my way around half of them.