Thread 30 Covid Cohort, Mad March Hareing Towards Exams

We are off to Nottingham. Blimey it's cold.

Well done on all those pushing the button!
I also learnt to drive, and passed my test, in a town with the magic roundabout of 5 roundabouts in one. As long as you treat them individually they are fine!!

The Hemel Hempstead magic roundabout has an insane road sign!

@EventuallyDelighted I’m also familiar with the HH one!

Ds announced tonight that he had pressed the button! - Leeds/Sheffield which he has been fairly certain of all along. Hope he doesn’t change his mind after visiting next week

So many people making final decisions now - DD did the same yesterday and pushed the button to firm Winchester with Glos as her insurance. It's all becoming very real but now to get the grades!!!

Fingers crossed for those who are still waiting for offers from their preferred universities. Hope you don't have to wait much longer - it's nerve wracking!

So sorry to hear that 22Names but I'm crossing both fingers and toes for Bath 🤞🤞

Eek at that roundabout 😲

Last week DD applied to defer to her two top choice unis and they both said yes and have now updated her UCAS to reflect a 2023 start date. She has now pressed the button and firmed Chichester and Oxford Brookes as insurance - yay!!!

Parents eve tonight. Last one ever I believe and online. DD is pretty happy with her grades even though on paper they haven't changed from the last set of mocks but she got higher on the mark scheme so with 6 weeks left to go she feels she can pull them up. She got BCD and needs BBC.
She has her A level dance practical exams next week so once that's done she can concentrate on her History coursework of which her teacher said she should get high marks as her draft is looking good.

One more week left of school - cannot wait.

Heifer - yes, I used to live near Hemel Hempstead which also has a magic roundabout and once I had worked that out it was straightforward, so long as you remembered which one you wanted to turn off at.

Ah the Magic Roundabout is harmless enough. Confession, I've never actually passed my driving test (don't ask) ... But even as a learner driver when I lived there I found it easy to navigate. Once the instructor pointed out just take each one at a time and don't think of it as a massive 5 roundabout puzzle.

Let's hope I don't end up anywhere near Swindon then 😂

ED hurrah another button pushed!

I hope more offers come in before the end of term so that stress is done with for the holidays.

The mere mention of the Magic Roundabout gives me flashbacks...

I blame the Magic Roundabout.

@Oblomov22 - to be fair Malborough is nice. No one who lives there or near there would want to describe themselves as living in Swindon ;-) There are some lovely villages around Swindon, and some lovely places to visit near Swindon, (Bath, Cotswolds etc) it's just Swindon that isn't so lovely these days..

re Satnav, I'm guessing it's because Swindon has grown so quickly. It's so different to when we left (at it had grown considerably back then) but so sprawled out now. As anywhere there are nice parts (where I grew up and later lived).

In fact - we are back for the dayon Sunday for a family do - luckily we know where we are going so no Satnav is needed

🤣
Last weekend I was going to meet my best friend, from uni, who lives in Devon, to stay overnight in a hotel near Marlborough, Swindon. As I said m25 junction onto m4 closed, had to take m40, past Oxford, trying to turn back to get south below Oxford to get back to Swindon. Nightmare. Sat nav failed me and was directing me more northwards, so I ignored it. She phoned and I joked that I was practically on my way to Birmingham.

Laughing at all your other Dh's ripping Swindon maps to shreds.

We have never had a satnav send us the right way in Swindon....

[quote Monkey2001]@Heifer DH was once sent off the M4 at Swindon (must have been an accident) and drove round and round in circles. He got so cross that he ripped out all the pages showing Swindon out of our map book!

Thank goodness for sat navs![/quote]
@Monkey2001 - love it, just 1 of many good reasons to rip out all the Swindon pages

@Heifer DH was once sent off the M4 at Swindon (must have been an accident) and drove round and round in circles. He got so cross that he ripped out all the pages showing Swindon out of our map book!

Thank goodness for sat navs!

@Oblomov22 sorry but am going to ask - why Swindon? ;-) I am originally from there - only moved away 15 years ago.... Yes I know it's an awful place so don't worry you don't have to be nice about it :-)

Hi everyone - sorry for Durham disappointments for some, yay to pressing buttons for others, and good luck with final decision making for yet others!
I just was sent this by DS’s school - 10 ways parents can help their child revise - seems quite good and evidence based. Every % counts in my DS case so I shall try to implement it all while crossing fingers etc etc! blog.innerdrive.co.uk/10-ways-parents-can-help-their-child-revise

It's not just the M25 that can be problematic, that stretch of the A3 at Guidlford is a bit prone to accidents and breakdowns, usually it's fine at weekends but when there is a problem it is bad, so I agree with allowing an extra half hour just in case. Satnav does a good job of alternative routes around there we've found (we drive it every weekend).

I'd think traffic would be okay on a Saturday morning Cantonet, but I'd add 30 minutes to whatever the sat nav says in case of issues. The M25 can go down to 40 or 50mph on Saturday's. I believe they reduce speed to limit emissions so it happens at random times.

Sorry, you meant Surrey.

Well done ED 🔲

Sounds amble Cantonet. The M40 to RHU doesn't take hardly any time at all.
I myself had to take the M40 to get to Swindon (don't ask) last weekend because the M4 was closed, so no access from M25.