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f0xh0les

I baked the cinnamon rolls while cooking supper. I have  a house full of happy men-folk.  Menfolk with a cinnamon stuffing.

KajiKita

f0xh0les said:

I baked the cinnamon rolls while cooking supper. I have  a house full of happy men-folk.  Menfolk with a cinnamon stuffing.

Awwww …. ❤️

Happy birthday Dr F0xh0les 🥳🎉😊

KK

f0xh0les

And finally, a 17 year old boy has an interview soon............to be AN ELF!!  DS3 is on the case!

maggiem

Good luck to DS3 👏👏

KajiKita

Whoop for DS 3 😊
Hope he gets it …

KK

f0xh0les

Both computer chairs have arrived safely. 
Made a sweetcorn and butter bean chowder for lunch and tidied 7 bread rolls into people. I still have enough soup left for lunch for 3 people.
 Made a massive fruit salad with fruit bowl rejects and a jar of peaches. All came to me free from the community Fridge. They should be on 10 of their 5-a-day. I did have to supplement it with ice-cream, but I don't care. I am not going to have them succumb to every germ and virus going. Food is medicine. 
Think we will be having sweet n sour for supper - I have a pineapple that needs using up and an awful lot of peppers in the fridge still.... and  beansprouts. 
Will make a chilli and a pasta sauce tomorrow and fridge them both. I have had  masses of just past their BB date tins of beans passed to me, so a 3 bean chilli is a good idea. I can freeze a couple of portions and be ahead of myself. I have garlic bread in the freezer already.  
Will ask DH to make carrot lox, might make a quiche one night next week.  There is loads of food in the house, but DH keeps going shopping and not using any of it... 
Plus there are burgers, there are always burgers ... Aand a toad in the hole.  and that will take me to Friday. 
I need to lose weight!!

f0xh0les

Sunday Morning Round-Up

This week I have successfully got rid of some bulky items,

 I have replaced gaming chairs for 2 kids, I made them follow the instructions and build them themselves, and then I made them sort the plastic and cardboard into the correct recycling bins, oh the whining that caused, I was expecting a call from childline. 

 I have managed to pin DS1 down as to what wardrobe/clothing storage he wants - of course it is out of stock in IKEA now the students are nesting - so I will stalk it until it is back in stock -  I know exactly what he wants, I know exactly how much it will cost. I just have to wait for it to be available. I have separated out the funds for it.

I have finally ordered 'D' batteries for step-gran's massive torch -  prepping for winter, just in case the lights go out.  Be Prepared! 

Filled a hole in the wall, sanded it, filled it again.

Next week's removals.

I have found a pile of old batteries to go to be recycled - I upgraded to recyclable batteries for everything about 3 or 4 years ago, I have no idea where these flippin batteries are coming from! and a wonky radiator, and a lamp that keeps tripping the fuse board   I have a horrible mirror - one of those ones on a metal chain that hung from the picture rail. Horrid. It came with the house. I know some people love them, so will offer it online. Will clean it first though.

Mostly though I will be attacking the horrific mess that is the back room / cruising bathroom showrooms / organising the last two carpets for the middle floor.  

Teaching starts properly this week, so DH will be out and about more, which is always good for stuff getting done in the house.

Will paint the sanded and filled hole on the wall - nobody will notice. They never do.

KajiKita

We notice … 😉😊

And well done for getting the offspring to build their own chairs and recycling! I could hear the whinging from here … 😂

KK

f0xh0les

Well the chairs seem to have made them very happy. No complaints! Top two floors cleaned and cleared yesterday. All hoovered and looking really quite good! Bathrooms cleaned. Front room hoovered, and a few bits identified that can go. Have to be sneaky about it though. . Today, I have concentrated on the back room, moving a few bits around, It is so difficult trying to sort other people's stuff. Found a couple of his storage drawers with literally a few pens and a rubber in them. There is stuff piled up all over the back room, and with half an hour's poking about, I had 3 drawers and a cupboard section emptied and ready for stuff to go into them. Not to mention the empty cardboard boxes he has been storing in case of ... erm..... a cardboard shortage? The great brown paper famine of 2024?... I have A4 pads of paper that have never been used, notebooks ditto, reams and reams of paper everywhere. On the plus side, I will never have to buy another envelope as long as I live. They are all together now, in one drawer. They will probably breed. It will keep me, in my retirement. Found some more tealights!! Just in a pile on the floor. That was a lovely surprise. All tea-light holders now full, and I have an excess. Will watch and release a pile of DVDs. They do not need to be here anymore. Tonight I will make Toad in the hole with lots of veg and gravy. It is raining again, and DH has half an hour between coming in from his language lesson and going upstairs gaming with his mates online tonight. He will be glad of a meal ready for him when he gets home. Teaching proper has started and he is knackered already. Only 10 weeks til Christmas break. Only 7 more school days until half term. Only a week until I am in a hotel for work with the invisible-work-friend and a chance for a really good gossip.

f0xh0les

Well I finally did it.  I have bought myself a pair of Bristol blue glass earrings with my September earnings. I want to buy myself something with each pay cheque - something nice, that I want. Something frivolous.  Today I did that.  All the other months it has all gone to the bathroom fund.  This month it is going to be a nice  set of pjs. 

After that, I pulled the trigger on my SIPP and invested it.  My £3,600 had sat as cash in an account on the platform since April.  Now it is 'shares'.  No, I don't know either.  But it is done. I can live with losing it, but if not,  Future Me might say thank you. Eventually.

As I was being brave, I bought DS1s clothes storage, I could not get mirror doors on the cupboards, so have had to go with gloss white, but when they become available they will get changed and the white ones will go into  other units  we already have in the house.  Progress.  I am picking them up 5 miles away from an IKEA pick up point in a Tesco unit between 5pm and 7pm tomorrow. Another job off the list.

Then, in a fit of tidiness, I paid the whole lot off the credit card, including next January's weekend in Liverpool. It feels freakishly weird to still  have an excess 1/3 of the way into a month.

In not so productive news:

DS3 has been pulled up in college for rocking up late to lectures and being passive in class. Two phone calls from college in one day.  DH and DS3 are going in for a meeting tomorrow, if DS3 bucks up his ideas next week, they might let him continue after half term. 

DS1 met with the NHS professional who told him he would not get an interview without lying on his CV. She actually told him to make up 12 months of admin experience.  What was the point of this course ?  He completed all the work he had to do  for the admin course with 10 days left to go, so they gave him the work for the  Social Care course, which he finished at lunchtime today, so he will attend for the next week, but will probably be back at home by 11am.  It might lead to something ....

DS2 is still DS2.  His XBox loves him, or something.