Shocking texts/calls from your Uni age kids

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I'll kick off with:

"What temperature should I wash my sheets and towels at?"

He'd been there 9 months.

I love that I'm my children's first point of call instead of google! To me it means they trust and respect the way I do things. I never had that sort of relationship with my mother and she never taught me anything, so perhaps I'm biased. But any phone call or text is because they want to, and that's good enough for me.

Oh, my student house in 1990 had a landline. It was very useful….. incoming calls only!!!

Tbh I've never heard of a steaming option?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ooh funny! Relax... It’s a washing machine not a hostage situation.

What actually is the difference between washing machine cycles?

Mine's a scarier one

"Mum, <friend's name> is bleeding and the ambulance say they can't come for 7 hours and uber won't take him because he is bleeding"

DS is at a fairly local university and when he moved into halls I said I would act as a proxy parent for any of his friends who needed help until their parents could get there.

I expected a couple of late night A&E trips to collect a drunk and injured student. I didn't expect to have swathe my car's back seat in whatever plastic bags we could find and transport a young person with a serious post surgical infection which had led to arterial bleeding in my car, then advocate for him in a packed A&E department (fortunately I am an ex critical care nurse).

I am so glad I made that casual offer at the start of term. I think the ambulance call handlers saw the halls address and didn't listen to the fellow students' quite accurate description of what was happening. Even the hall staff tried to call and change the ambulance decision and failed. It could have been a very different outcome.

This I know as I read it on the manual - it changes the agitation and drum speed and in some cycles the temperature as well. The idea is that it prolongs the life of fabrics. Now if it really does… depends on who you ask 😁

Usually temperature and cycle length, and on some machines, spin speed.

I just wash everything on mixed fabrics!

Sorry, misunderstanding!

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Except mine also allows me to change the temperature and the spin speed within a cycle. It’s serious pressure.

My synthetic & cotton cycles are quicker than the eco which I use as mixed.

That is really scary that a young person wasn't believed when they needed help.

Its also scary how few ambulances are actually available in the Uk. Lots of the time it seems to be not enough hospital beds, no space to move people out of A&E and ambulances qued up at the door.

I have all these joys to come as eldest is off to uni in September, she is reasonably competent though - can cook well and is a bit gem phobic so keeps clean. Youngest is a few years off that age, but I'm fairly sure will be totally incompetent, can repair any bit of tech you need, but is unable to find the washing basket IN THE ROOM, and lives off instant noodles (if given the choice).

I remember scaring my poor old Mum though when I was at uni. I developed a fallopian torsion and ended up being whisked off to hospital in an ambulance. In the days long before mobiles, someone from the SU managed to call Mum. She rang the hospital, who could only tell her that I was in surgery. She was 100s of miles away, single mum with other kids at home, completely unable to do anything. She had to wait until the next day when I was out of surgery and the pay phone on wheels came round so I could let her know I was OK.

Just practice. Get inspiration from a recipe of what to put with what but don't follow it exactly. I am very much an intuitive cook and rarely follow a recipe, unless baking.

if you had the cash to make the call?!
or, last resort, ‘Reverse charge call’ = v. pricey & only allowed to if i was @ deaths door😳.

Piece of purple sky .This reminded me of an examination at the hospital .Large lamp plugged in wall .Young Doctor seemed a bit phased .Asked the Nurse how it worked "Well Doctor need to plug in at the wall first!"

Same here

My 13yo DD was confused about why her cake was so flat recently.

She hadnt realised the recipe in the family cookbook, which she had seen me and her 15yo sister use many times, was actually a ratio of ingedients. 1 egg, 2oz flour, 2oz sugar, 2oz butter plus flavouribgs didnt exactly make much batter in a 20cm cake tin.

We'd been reminiscing about some of his "moments".

Bless her I bet that feels like yesterday to her.