After the jubilation of Joe
obtaining his place at Falmouth University the reality starts to dawn. Over the next few weeks I need to ensure Joe
is equipped to start University. Whether
he is ready or not only time will tell and is largely down to him. I just need to make sure that the transition
to Uni life and of course to his new accommodation is as comfortable and as
smooth as possible.
Thankfully, Georgina has the
maturity and the added experience of her time at Cardiff last year. Georgina had already reserved a student house
with her friends last December. Most of her
stuff is already in the house and only Georgina’s clothes need to be
transferred. Georgina will be moving in
on 16th September.
Joe has had to start from scratch
and will be moving to Falmouth on 15th September. Our first port of call has been a trip to
Ikea. A trip to Ikea is never great,
well for me anyway. The store is just so big and you seem to meander around
aimlessly. Everything is labeled in Swedish,
I guess, and you spend so much time trying to guess what the item is and what
it does. Caroline use to love a trip to
Ikea and would always bribe Joe with a treat of an Ikea hot dog at the end of
the shopping trip, which he fell for every single time. If I’m honest I used to look forward to the
hot dog too and I guess Caroline knew that as well.
Well in short we managed to get
most of what we needed and just topped up with a visit to Tesco. Joe was fairly enthused and engaged which is
very unusual for him when shopping. I
think the presence of his girlfriend Eve made the difference. Interestingly I wasn’t the only dad doing
“university shopping” and I kept eyeing up their trollies to make sure I didn’t
miss anything. We have bought stuff that
deep down I don’t think Joe will ever use but I want to be seen as a good
parent and doing the right thing. Next step is to get Joe togged-up at Topman!
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Item
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Ikean
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Cost
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Comments
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Ikea
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Steel Wired Bin
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Dokument
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5.00
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Large Pasta Jar
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Droppar Jar/Lid
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6.25
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Fitted Sheet
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Gaspa Fitted Sheet
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16.00
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Quilt cover and Pillow Cover
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Gaspa QC/2PWC 1
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30.00
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Pillow Protector
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Skydda Latt
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1.50
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2* Flannels
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2* Haren
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2.20
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2 * Bath Towels
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2* Haren
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10.00
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Pillow
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Gosa Vaco
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6.00
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Quilt
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Mysan Ronn
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25.00
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2 * Oven Gloves
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2* Iris
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5.00
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Will never be used
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2* Dessert Bowls
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2* Fargrik Bowl 16
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1.60
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Not hopeful that they will be
in one piece by the end of Freshers week!
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2 * Dinner Plates
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2 * Fargrik Plate 2
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1.60
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Wooden Document File
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Knuff
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6.75
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Washing up brush
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Plastis Dish-Wa
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0.90
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Optimistic that it will ever be
used
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Serving set
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Grunken Kitchen
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4.50
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4* Tea Towels
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Elly
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2.00
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Ice Cube Tray (fish shaped)
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Plastis Ice Cube
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0.95
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Cheese Grater
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Chosigt
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2.20
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Cool cheese grater
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Spatula set
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Akut
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0.70
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Toothbrush Holder
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Savern
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5.50
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Joe has already told me he will
not use it. I’m just carrying out my
duty as a parent
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Stainless Steel Collander
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Idealisk Coland
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5.25
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9 * Washing up sponges
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Tillrackling Scr
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0.75
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Will be unopened at Christmas
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2 Chopping Boards
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Dralla
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1.40
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2 Glasses
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2 * Pokal N Glass 3
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1.00
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Frying Pan
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Kavalkad
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3.75
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6 * Knife, Fork and Spoon set
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Fornuft Cutlery
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7.75
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At least with a 6 piece set
there is a chance Joe wont be eating with his hands by the end of term
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3 Kitchen Knives
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Knivskarp Knife
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35.00
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Just realized how much these
have cost. Thinking of taking them
back
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Tesco
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Rapid Boil Kettle
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19.50
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As Joe’s girlfriend pointed out
he needs a kettle for his super noodles.
It will be the most used piece of equipment
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18cm Saucepan
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14.00
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3* Radiator Airers
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2.50
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Will never be used
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Laundry Basket
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3.40
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Interesting
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Desk Tidy
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1.50
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