only 3 more days of school...

[xylem8]

.. for y13 ds and he can't wait!
Earlier this year he was wishing he could stay at school longer, a bit apprehensive about going to uni ,so It is so good to see him feeling restless and ready to move on!

[TheWave]

What is he doing between A levels and results day? Quite a lot of time isn't it?

[xylem8]

work and save up!!

[TheWave]

We're only up to Yr 11 so just looking ahead. Seems like work plus Zante quite popular combo.

[senua]

I'm doing the laundry and, as usual, have put half the socks in a plastic tub that we call The Land of Lost Sock. I live in vain hope that a lonely sock may find its twin in there and be paired up.
TLofLS currently contains about 25 other people's grey school socks which are all slightly different and definitely not a pair. How many variations on a grey sock can the world produce!? It's the same with the rugby socks: the school had a brand new strip only a few years ago but we seem to have countless variations on the design, all singletons natch.

I shall give it a few weeks then put all the stragglers in the charity rag bag, with a sense of release.

[glaurung]

dd is hoping her last day was last week. It's a very liberating feeling, except that until her apprenticeship is 100% confirmed (waiting for reference checks and medical results etc, which we think ought to be OK) she just might have to go back next year as she's currently a year 12. She is very excited to be moving on too, but I haven't got used to the idea at all (never expected her to get this apprenticeship).

[MsAverage]

DD (year 11) wandered into my bedroom yesterday with a bag of washing and said musingly, "You know, these are the last five school shirts which I am going to wash".

[senua]

Congrats (I hope, fingers crossed) to your DD, glaurung, she has done well to land a job in the present economic circumstances.