For those of you with older kids at home, what do you do regarding dig money?

I’ve got an 18 year old and the agreement was that as long as he pitches in around the house (bins are his responsibility - emptying into the wheelie bins and putting out whichever one it is that week) and attends his college course then he can keep his money. He’s at college 2.5 days a week and then work for the rest, clearing around £900 a month.

The issue is he is always fucking “forgetting” to put the bins out. Even when I’ve bought him a fucking echo so he can set up reminders etc.

There’s myself, my wife and the 5 kids (10-18) so there’s a fuckton of rubbish. Missing it even once causes massive ballache. Thing is, he’s always forgetting.

Came to a head this morning because, once again, he forgot. This is after messaging me last night 15 minutes before he was due home asking to have someone stay, so I changed all my plans to accommodate. And the shit didn’t put the bins out again.

I feel like I’m going round in circles with him and it’s beginning to really affect me. Stressing to fuck over bins, what even is that!

Only thing I can think of is to start charging him dig money now. I’m sick bending over backwards for him not to pitch in with this one thing.

Does that seem reasonable? Or am I being a crabit bastard? What amounts are people taking from their weans etc here? Was thinking £100 since I easily spend more than that on keeping the lazy shit each month.

Edit to add - Dig Money meaning money he pays towards household expenses :)

How goes folks?

Good weekend I hope. Get up to anything interesting? I’m at the tail end of a long weekend so once again I’ve let the weans sleep in and am using the time to get in about some Baldurs Gate 3 in peace.

Summer holidays are getting old - weans have their pc’s in living room and hearing my boy all day yesterday spout utter nonsense in discord was seriously ripping ma knittin’, as they say. Only another two weeks!

Happy Wednesday folks!

What have we all been watching this week?

I finished season 2 of This Fool which was great.

Currently sitting on my arse watching episode 7 of Hijack which has been a brilliant wee surprise. Not usually a fan of scary airplane stuff but this has me hooked.

Righteous Gemstones season 3 finished up this week too. Love a bit of Danny McBride and this season has been phenomenal.

Can’t forget What We Do in the Shadows - hilarious as ever.

After growing my beard out for maybe 5-6 years, trimming it myself and generally keeping it looking “reasonable” I thought I’d treat myself and go get it trimmed by a “professional” first thing before a day full of webex meetings.

Now admittedly it was maybe a bit What year is it?, but it was well taken care of. Wee dude even commented on how it was one of the softest he’d cut.

Then he fucking trimmed it to fuck, into a big sorcerers point while I just sat there aghast. Absolutely scunnered.

Morning folks, got up early before work so I could finish off the last episode of Legion.

I absolutely loved this show - the music, the costume design - it did everything right. Favourite parts by far were whenever it had a musical number. So fucking surrreal.

It’s got me super hyped for Noah Hawley’s take on Alien as well. Cannae wait!

We’ve got a bunch and the ones that annoy the weans, like calling Jalapeños Jalpaneros in public, are our favourites.

I love late evenings at this time of the year. Added benefit because the beach is usually empty around 10pm.

Also saw a Great Heron here’s a shitty picture

Happy Sunday folks!

Got the wean’s girlfriend visiting from Austria for the week and look what their Dad brought as a gift!

Would love to hear of some interesting/peculiar gifts that folk have unexpectedly received? I was absolutely blown away by getting this and it’s just such a nice wee gesture that I was blown away.

I'd probably say mine is Stephen Pacey - his Joe Abercrombie books are just something else.

Jeff Hayes as well, narrator of Dungeon Crawler Carl, is such a delight to listen to.