Corona Cohort Y12 into Y13, braving the storm of the third wave

We're in the out club now. All yr 12 sent home to SI.

Managed to book DS another earlier driving test - now up to October 14th. Have asked Him to talk to his instructor about when he might be ready to take his test so I don’t end up with a test too soon, although hope might be a fine thing!

@Zandathepanda Hope your DD gets well soon.

@Monkey2001 Re: Bribes/Golden hellos - Couldn't help but snigger a bit. They might be re-thinking that in this current time of grade inflation if they don't want to go bankrupt.

Good about Birmingham. There’s nothing that can compare with seeing it face to face.

Birmingham Open Day is back on! 24 and 25 July 😊

Thanks @Monkey2001! Unfortunately none of those places do Occupational therapy! I looked into the bribes a while ago… from memory I think Lancaster and Kent also do something similar for good results.

Glad she is negative @Zandathepanda

Yes EversoDelighted we did, we actually emailed them over the weekend as was nervous we hadn't heard and they emailed us back and told us the time slots and said an email would be going out. We have also booked the 11-2 slot so we'll be passing each other on the tour no doubt

Great DD is negative Zanda but so sorry she has tonsillitis- i used to suffer terribly similar age and finally had them out in my 20s. Don't think they really do that now. Hope she recovers soon

Good news zanda!

Yay!

Dd is negative! So it’s tonsillitis with maybe hayfever/mystery allergy of viral or bacterial origin. Narrows it down?! She’ll be popular when she gets back to school if she still has the cough.

@AnneOfCleavage did you get the slot booking email from Winchester yesterday? We have booked 11-2.

Apologies for the rant. Just sad for all children of the posters on here and in the higher Ed threads that are ill/having to isolate at the end of a rough academic year.

You know when Dominic Cummings said he wanted weirdos and eccentrics to help him with ideas in that advert? What he needed was us lot (I think we are normal but we would be weird to him I expect). A lot of what has happened was and is entirely predictable. It was obvious schools were going to get hit by the delta variant. Even more when the Uni students (who are all partying at the end of exams) are now going back to their families in the next couple of weeks because they have to get out of their accommodation. The government should put in pcr testing for students before they move back home and tell landlords they aren’t allowed to evict if someone is positive. Ironically poor negative Uni Dd may be hit from a school instead! The rates in the big Northern universities are all horrendous too.

Thank you for well wishes. She’s not coughing as much. After trying to get through to GP for 30mins, finally got a double miracle: a telephone appointment and antibiotics! As predicted the Dr said to do a pcr but also said hayfever round here has been horrendous and lots of people have it for the first time. Also lots of other bugs are surfacing with a vengeance now masks etc are off, particularly in children.
Doesn’t bode well for schools does it?

Zanda
My DD went to Portugal in between the green/amber and came back PCRs (cost £££s) all negative. Went back to Bristol (uni town) for work and to see people and so similar symptoms to your DD - I made her do LFT and was postive PCR then positive too. Result was back 1:05am after an 8 am test so really quick but this delta variant is a real problem. . Symptoms very different. T&T told me she shouldn''t have got a test as no cough/temp/taste symptoms - this was AFTER a postive PCR. No wonder its spreading so quickly. On investigation Bristol does seem a hotspot. However, I will say DD thinks she's been dramatically ill, but not really - slept a lot and is now fine after coming home and wiping us all into self isolation. Deep breath .............

Sorry, meant fingers crossed for Zanda for a negative test, hope for a speedy recovery for Fiddler's DS.

Sorry to hear about the positive test @Fiddlersgreen, hope it’s a mild case and no one else gets it. Fingers crossed dd just has a cold @Zandathepanda!

I’m just about to pick Dd up from doing her first session of 11plus tutoring. I’m hoping she survives and will want to keep on with it.

For anyone interested in Southampton, we just came across the ‘access to Southampton’ scheme. Dd happens to qualify due to us living in an area of deprivation and low progression to higher education. She’s mostly interested in the £1k scholarship, but all the sessions offered look like they could be helpful.

Someone at work showed me a photo of their friend's positive LFT (confirmed by PCR). The line was so faint it would have been at home on one of those MN "can you see a line" pregnancy threads. I'm going to be scrutinising ours more closely from now on.

Fingers crossed Fiddlers

Oh no Fiddlers hope everyone is ok. Dd just slept for 5 hours solid but coughing again now. Dh not impressed at working from home til the result.

@Zandathepanda fingers crossed for a quick result! I took DS2 yesterday morning after his positive lateral flow on Saturday and we had the result within 12 hours (also positive 😞)
Also has cold-like/hay fever symptoms