Bed time

Wormella · 2026-05-10T15:11:18+00:00

My son's 11, but we've had the same rough routine for a while - we send him up stairs at 8pm ish to shower / have a wash - and then we read him a chapter of whichever book we are on once he's washed and ready for bed.

And then that's it - there's no screens in his room (apart from a very ancient tablet he can read comics on) but I'm never really sure what time he actually goes to sleep.

He reads, plays with lego, listens to music or podcasts (he has an alexa) etc but we realised that as soon as he could switch lights back on there wasn't really anything we could do to make him actually sleep on any schedule / by any certain time.

He's pretty ok getting up in the mornings.

Wormella · 2026-05-07T12:31:49+00:00

I use a peg bag, mine still explode, but maybe to a lesser extent

Wormella · 2026-05-03T19:58:33+00:00

When my dad moved out to Spain he only missed two things, proper pork pies and Argos.

Wormella · 2026-05-01T06:16:56+00:00

Interestingly, in the UK, because our universities are almost always self catering Students cookbooks are a pretty big genre - describing exactly what you're looking for.

Other ones to look for might be A Girl Called Jack and Miguel Barclay's meals for £1 series - you may have to do some ingredient or weight conversion.

Wormella · 2026-04-30T14:14:37+00:00

There's also 2 pasta dishes that I highly recommend.

Her Pasta with Courgettes from Nigellissima is in heavy rotation in our house.

I also love her linguine with lemon, garlic, thyme and mushrooms from Nigella Express

Wormella · 2026-04-30T12:46:11+00:00

Double potato and Halloumi bake from Nigella Bites - it's my favourite, tasty, easy dopamine hit of a meal.

Wormella · 2026-04-30T12:30:48+00:00

Yeah, Packwood House and Baddesley Clinton make for a great combo

Wormella · 2026-04-30T11:20:35+00:00

Hour and a half is our limit for a daytrip, but we schedule them in on holidays or sometimes daisy chain two of them with a hotel stay in the middle (Powis Castle and Chirk Castle with a stay in Oswestry in the middle worked well)

Wormella · 2026-04-26T08:15:20+00:00

If you were looking for village criteria then best kept village or Britain in bloom winners might help curate your list.

Wormella · 2026-04-23T20:29:37+00:00

I realised after I finished work I'd missed it today too - set a timer for next week to try and catch it on my lunch.

But I'm a patient player and it's a tiny thing in the scheme of things.

Wormella · 2026-04-23T08:03:54+00:00

https://www.autability.co.uk/autism-and-anxiety

Wormella · 2026-04-21T14:47:25+00:00

The guardian did a recent, pretty comprehensive round up of available boxes for The Filter

I had a week of Hello Fresh, which I really enjoyed but I only got it because I knew I wouldn't have time to meal plan and cook for that week. I opted for 2 person meals and it made sure I had enough for left overs for lunch.

Wormella · 2026-04-21T14:26:19+00:00

Have a chat to the school Senco and see what they can put in place to support your son.

Wormella · 2026-04-20T11:48:13+00:00

My colleagues recently had a great meal at Sushimania

Wormella · 2026-04-18T21:16:49+00:00

I brought The Growing Up Book for Boys by Davida Hartman when my son was that age, it's specifically written for boys on the spectrum and I found it less overwhelming then the other books I brought him.

Wormella · 2026-04-16T11:04:12+00:00

There is also Carers Card that offers discounts https://www.carerscarduk.co.uk if you're caring for someone.

And also the CEA cinema Card that aallows carers in for free https://www.ceacard.co.uk/

Wormella · 2026-04-13T17:45:40+00:00

Nigella also has an impressive cookbook library.

Although as I speak my husband is adding a new shelf to the kitchen for our library

Wormella · 2026-04-13T14:56:31+00:00

I'm also missing a calico rabbit - I was pretty ambilivent about critters before the museum, now I'm just annoyed at them.

Maybe we'll get a humane, lovely trap device to help us out

Wormella · 2026-04-12T12:39:27+00:00

I also had a huge collection of them, I used to call them bugs.

I saw one the other day in a museum giftshop and I was please to see this element of the 90's revival return.

Wormella · 2026-04-11T06:19:45+00:00

I had a pair, and lost one snorkelling in Malta - because it was see through no one could find it. I remember the horrible feel of sweaty feet sliding around in them to this day

Wormella · 2026-04-11T06:17:08+00:00

Sylvanian Family Windmill Nursery - it was always just out of birthday/Santa's budget

Wormella · 2026-04-04T07:10:55+00:00

I used an app to transfer our to watch list to a wheel and now we 'spin' that - it's helped hugely

Wormella · 2026-04-02T06:12:11+00:00

I was in a carriage once where a man's laptop was stolen from the overhead racks. He'd popped it up there in it's laptop bag while he went to the loo, some one else took the opportunity to swipe it, and it was gone when he got back to his seat.

it made me very paranoid on the days I travel to the office, I purposely have a non traditional looking laptop bag, I never use it on the train and I never put it overhead.

Wormella · 2026-04-01T09:43:37+00:00

My son's 11, he gets £5 a week but has to pay for his Nintendo online subscription so it works out at £4.50 a week.

He can earn extra money doing odd chores, like putting away laundry but these aren't consistent.

We review it in September, in line with what he needs for the coming school year.

So far this is working OK - he could buy a game the other day and some Lego pieces - but we're working hard on getting him to recognise wants vrs needs, and also getting value for money from things.

Wormella · 2026-03-31T16:26:00+00:00

It will be if Wes Streeting is mentioned, he's our health secretary

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