GCSE Summer 2020 - Thread 11 Carry on Corona Cohort - Starting New Terms and Settings

Ooh I’ll pass that on to her thank you.

@Monkey2001 yes ds1 said the hazard perception was the hardest part. He said it's so easy to press to early.

Iheart she should definitely get the DVSA app too - it has all the actual questions from the test and DS1 had a hazard perception clip in the test which he had already seen on the app.

Top tip for hazard perception - you can't click continuously, but you can click several times. DS1 failed first time because he clicked too early. Second time, each time he saw a hazard he clicked and then did 2 more clicks, and that got him almost full marks.

Pressed post too soon, happy birthday to all of the other new 17 year olds!

DD tackled roundabouts on her driving lesson today. She’s cooking on gas. She’s downloaded the My Theory Test by James May app which she says is really good (I heard him plugging it on Radio X the other morning so suggested it to her). Test isn’t until 2/11 but that’s the earliest we could get it.

I can’t believe all these 17 year olds, it does sound so old! Dd is a June birthday so a long time to wait until driving lessons. She will be useless, I’m sure of it! Hope dd has a good day @KingscoteStaff!

@KingscoteStaff snap, it’s my DSs birthday today too just turned 13 - eek another teenager in the house! Happy birthday to your DD. 🎉

Happy Birthday to mini @KingscoteStaff ! It's DD's on Wednesday and she's cross that she's on the wrong side of the 'rule of six'. She says she's going to have a gathering of 6 around the fire pit with pizza.

17 is such a wonderful edge. Makes me think of 'The Edge of 17' and 'Dancing Queen' (who was also 17). So much to look forward to in the future.

Glad Kings dd is off 'out out', like Mickey flannagan!

Like Singing, my lot drive me nutty re shopping list: 'I'm about to shop, want anything? Need anything? Any meal requests'. No response. Then nothing but moans afterwards!

That's what I heard - one desperate voice lamenting 'oh it's no use, my shoes are so irrelevant' and then a massive clumping of teenage feet down the stairs and off to TX Maxx!

I thought I'd misheard and she meant 'irreverent', but that makes even less sense!!

Haha that's great @KingscoteStaff
I do love teenagers, they're so funny

Ooh, lucky timing then @KingscoteStaff!

Irrelevant shoes?!

@Monkey2001 9 lovely girls (all from the same school bubble) meeting in pub garden, then heading to restaurant for dinner.

4 of them have been in DD's room since lunchtime, trying on different outfits. Now heading out to TK Maxx as apparently one girl has realised that her shoes are irrelevant????????

Yes, 17 does sound so much older than 16! Hope Kingscote II has a lovely birthday!

My daughter is 17 in Nov and getting the obligatory driving lessons. We applied for her licence a month ago, still not got it back yet. She's been studying for her theory test, so needs it to book the test. Our NDN is a driving instructor and recommended she did the theory over the summer... which she has been studying for. She's ready to take the theory test when we've got her licence!

Happy birthday King Junior. Is she having a final permitted get together before Rule of 6 comes into force?

DS is at a birthday "party" today which is just his close friendship group of 4 going out for a Thai meal - potential opportunity to broaden the catering plan if he likes it with his friends!

Happy Birthday miniKings.

@KingscoteStaff yes for ours it's the fact there's only the one school bus there and back. With 6th formers when they want to leave for free periods they can't. So ds1 was the only one left sometimes and a year on the bus cost £900

Well, due to various shenanigans with changing schools in Year 8, DD has ended up with a very complicated and 45 min + public transport journey to school, so getting her driving licence (and her Granny's old car) will make the school commute much easier for her.

@KingscoteStaff happy birthday to your dd. It must be good being one of the first to learn to drive. Ds1 is May. Several of his friends were driving to school way before he was 17. But ds2 is November born. So he's keen to get going on his driving. As long as lessons don't come to a halt again due to Covid.

Kingscote have a lovely day with the birthday girl. 17 sounds significantly more mature than 16. DS is an end of Aug so a year away from driving.

Happy birthday minikings! 🎈🎈

DD 17 today! Main present will be some driving lessons and a new hockey stick, but I have bought her several 'small lovely things' to open. I've just spotted DS wrapping a copy of Sylvia Plath's poems for her - very deja vu as I remember my beloved DF giving that to me for my 17th!

My other DC does not have autism but has a more "normal" type of fussiness, doesn't like strongly spicy foods and prefers plain food.

So we have one that won't touch roast dinners, sausages, fish fingers, stews and casseroles but loves most foreign cuisines. One that only really likes the traditional British stuff. Our crossover areas are Italian (pizza, pasta, meatballs etc), some "beige" foods - both will eat breaded chicken or burgers, Mexican so long as it's mild and that's about it.

@EasilyDeleted that's interesting. Ds3 ate everything until around age 2 or so. Then just overnight refused to eat most things. Ds1 was terrible as a baby and toddler. He looked so ill because he wouldn't eat. Now he eats almost anything. So my worst dc at eating was the best as a toddler.

@FlyingPandas

Well, I think we have an early front runner for a new thread title when the time comes don't we? How about "Carry On Corona Consort : Enjoying Y12 but less of the food fads please"

Another DC whose food fads are massively linked to autism here. Definitely a lot of kindred spirits on this thread!

Too much wine tonight.