22 Foxhole East

f0xh0les

He has signed up for a T level course in Business Leadership and Management - the staff at this  college were disgusted the original college did not let him in with the grades he had.  Properly annoyed, he was. 

So DS3 starts big boy college on 9th, DS1 has volunteered his 'University Laptop' to be DS3s 'College Laptop' that he needs for the course, so that is money saved (DH was poised to buy one,  but I suggested we 'shop from home first'). 

It is a 2 year course, complete with 60 day  industry placement, and worth 3 A levels for UCAS points.

DS1 starts his 4 week admin for the NHS course on 19th,

DS4 is still at school, 

DH is working

I am working this month, and I accidentally applied for a part time job at Hotel Chocolat over Xmas

Just DS2 to sort out now!  Woo Hoo!

Baileys_Babe

It sounds like the majority of the household will be being productive. It looks like DS2 will be cleaning bathrooms, hoover, doing the laundry, preparing meals.... to support the rest of you. I'm sure he will organising himself quickly  after a few days of keeping house 😁

KajiKita

I rather like BaileysBabe’s suggestion … 😈😉
Hotel Chocolat sounds like it could be fun 😊

KK

f0xh0les

70% off stays at their hotel might have been a draw ... Plus 50% off chocolate. So don't be surprised when you all get chocolates for Xmas 😄

f0xh0les

Feeling very positive today.  Went off and spent my £6 off a £40 spend at Mr T's Emporium of Foods, plenty of y/s  goods fell into my trolley.   Should be able to feed us for a week (with the exception of bread), but DH is going to be doing the cooking, and he has been known to ignore the fridge and freezer contents, and just buy fresh  items every day and totally go off piste.  Anyway, there is food in the house.

Will do a big deep clean of the top two floors when I come home from volunteering tomorrow, including bedding changes, laundry, and hoovering.  I have told them to have their bedrooms ready.  No sign of any bugs for over 2 months so will put down more diatomaceous earth and hope it will be for the last time.  I might still be traumatised.

Tuesday  morning will be a good thorough clean of the living room, and the cloth recycling and metal recycling will leave the house on the way to work.

I have started burning my candles again, it is so calming and happy, plus it gives people an idea of what to buy me for C-word.

The housekeeping comes in tomorrow morning, the bills go out tomorrow morning, I will win the Premium Bonds tomorrow morning, and still go to work anyway. I need  to do a new meter reading for the fix I did last week, I filled the car with petrol this morning (£50.15), filled it right up to the top, will see how long it lasts.  This tank lasted 9 weeks, but I have just been pootling around the place, no long journeys anywhere.

F-i-L is recovering gently. He has started to be a little disorientated at times. I think M-i-L is terrified.  She has remembered I exist .....

Oh! and the Kazuo Ishiguro book was finished, as was a self help book I must have bought for DS1, so now I should  have Indestructible Self Belief (ISB) which is totally different to IBS, although both are full of  s** t (nods wisely).   Anyway, they can now LEAVE MY HOUSE.  

Next up in Literary Corner is Sue Perkins' (Superkins) autobiography, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.  I have a plan.

lookbook

Good luck at college but much more freedom than school. Can he handle it? 

badmemory

I know it is some years ago, but when my DS went to 6 form college he found it a lot pleasanter than school because most of the ones there were people who actually wanted to go.

f0xh0les

College has started, DS3 seems happy, only in 3 days a week for the first year. 

 DS4 has hopped on his bike and ridden off to school on time

I am going to try and get DS1 and DS2 to go to the jobs fair in the City Rooms this morning. 

Tomorrow I have to spend the night near the work venue for an early start on Friday - looks like being a 16 hour day - 

 I will still have time to Food Bank, and then come home and grab my case and go.  Both of my 80 year olds are unwell.  Always a worry at their age, but it might just be someone has tinkered with their medication. Hard to tell.

Dr F-H is fretting about the state of UK Universities.....a lot.

KajiKita

Hope you survived the 16 hour day! 😳
How are your 80 year olds?
Sympathies to Mr FH - my parents fret similarly….

KK

f0xh0les

It was exactly as expected.  We got there before 6am, we left after 10pm. I managed 2 x 20 minute long breaks.  It was manic. We got through it. I might have sat down for ten minutes out of the other 15h50 mins.