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Happy Birthday to @icanbewhatiwant and trying to catch up with everything as been ill (not covid) and DD been ill with something else (not covid) the NEA geography is in (so bloody pleased to see the back of it) and now she just has to get well for Durham open day this week. After that we hopefully can firm, sort accommodation and focus on revision.

Did Finance and DSA last weekend (a lot easier than last done in 2018)DSA has been confirmed ???already but the email sent on Friday which has the link for the Needs assessment is not working - anyone else had this issue?

@icanbewhatiwant Hope it's an extended celebratory weekend!

Happy Birthday icanbe.

Usual adulting annoyances this morning :

1)student finance site is down

2. Birmingham accommodation portal keeps telling us that mealplan is a great idea but then gives absolutely no clue as to how you add it!! We chickened out of saving our accommodation choices because of this...

Does anyone anywhere actually ever trial their own websites for clarity? !

@Seeline ds1 has mostly enjoyed his time at UEA. He regrets staying so close to home now, but has made life long friends, who are also fairly close Norwich (Suffolk like us, Cambs and Essex areas) Norwich is the city we visit the most, but Ds showed us areas we'd never been to. The saying is there is a church for every week of the year and a pub for every day.

Thanks all for the birthday wishes.

Happy Birthday @icanbewhatiwant Glad you had a good day. We were in Norwich too yesterday and the UEA campus looked wonderful in the glorious spring sunshine. DD seems to have fallen in love with it - she came out if her course session really animated which is unusual. She thinks Norwich is the place for her. She just wants to check with the school UCAS person tomorrow and then I think she'll be pushing the button!!

@BlueMarigold, I don’t think she’ll put Bath Spa as her insurance because it’s been in Clearing in recent years so I think she’d ring them on the day if necessary and hope they would have her.
I’d be really interested in hearing people’s thoughts on Southampton v RH. We weren’t expecting yesterday to have been such a hit and now we’re all a bit confused about next steps. It was Warwick she thought she’d love, I suppose it goes to show how important it is to visit places.

Belated happy birthday @icanbewhatiwant! Glad you had an argument free day!

@cariadambyth are you putting Bath Spa as the insurance? DD was allowed to choose accommodation at both her first and insurance choices so I don’t think there will be a mad scramble for accommodation at the end.

What is Bath Spa like?

A belated happy birthday @icanbewhatiwant.
That’s a shame she forgot @Alsoplayspiccolo, in fairness to her, she’d have had a very busy weekend if she’d done both open days. I hope she likes RH today. My dd was very impressed with it and is now having to decide between there and Southampton for firm and insurance. Southampton is very… aspirational!! I wonder if firming RH is the better idea as we can sort accommodation. I fear that if we firm Southampton, she won’t get the grades and we’ll be scrabbling for a accommodation elsewhere in August.

Happy Birthday for yesterday @icanbewhatiwant. I am glad the day went well with no arguments.

Happy birthday @icanbewhatiwant. 🎂🎉🍾

Maybe DS will still be nice to you for your birthday tomorrow, which might make him more inclined to do what you want!

Happy birthday @icanbewhatiwant!! 🎉

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday @icanbewhatiwant!

Ah, happy, happy birthday ican!

Nothing to do with university....but thought I'd say it is my birthday today (I'm really in denial about my age) For the first time in almost 4 years we went out as a family. We met Ds1 at his student house in Norwich, had a wonder round, then lunch followed by bowling. Ds3 completely ignored Ds1 which I find quite sad, he wouldn't answer anything he asked, but at least they didn't argue. So it was great to all be out together and catch up with Ds1. If ds2 goes to Sussex I don't suppose we will do anything with all 5 of us for a long time.

Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can get Ds2 onto student finance. Not sure I'll be successful.

DD was supposed to be at Southampton today, cariad…but she forgot completely and only heard from them at 9.15am, when we were on the way out with DS
She’s had to rebook for May, which isn’t ideal, but at least she’s already been to their open day.

She’s off to RHUL tomorrow, which is in competition with Southampton for her insurance.

Your idea of writing down a sort of contract for DD is really helpful, thanks, ealingwest. She’s very good at refusing to listen and also claiming she said things when she didn’t/didn’t say things that she did, so having something on paper might help that particular issue.
It’s comforting to hear that your DD can also behave like an unreasonable 14 year old.

That’s a shame @Cantonet. I suspect if he doesn’t like Aber he won’t like Bangor, but you never know.

I don’t remember that chocolate bar @sofakingcool!

I like a Texan myself

Posted that on the wrong flipping thread...

We've done Aberystwyth here. It's not for Ds, for very obvious reasons sadly. We've just been for a Jamaican meal to a place with glowing reviews, that's very ordinary. I'm annoying Ds ... n we have Bangor tmrrw.

@Horace123 Yay! Well done to your DS on his Durham offer!
Lots of DDs friends still waiting for the Durham and St A Classics bus to leave the depot…
For DD, her insurance University boiled down to where else she ‘could see herself at’- if that makes sense?