OMG lost as to what to do

[Cynthiathequeen]

Name changed. 20odd year old DC has just hosted a pre party at ours. After their v noisy departure went into the room they had been in to check for forgotten candles etc. Found a hand written note on headed note paper from one of this country's most august body's. It is an addendum note and asks the recipient to send the note writer their "term time address" plus more, but never stepping over a line.
I have no idea of sender or recipient, but they all went to a school which arranges many work placements in said body.my DC has been one of them. A number of the school alumni have ended up working there as a career
All individuals are 21 plus but I am at a loss. Unhappy the note could be pressure on someone not yet properly mature. i accept I probably cannot intervene, don't think it is my own DC, so just your thoughts please?

Approved answer (verified by Philip)
Mr Wordy:
"august" here is an adjective meaning "inspiring respect and admiration" (definition from COED, saving me thinking one up!). It's pronounced with the stress on the second syllable (unlike the month).

"body" means "group", "collection" (of students and professors).

Now I am confused. Who the fuck is Phillip?

My money is on drinking game.
When I was at uni we invented a 'peg regiment' complete with badges and all sorts.

I bet it's overly involved drinking game

Well, a Christmas mystery and a bonkers thread, this is the most festive I've felt in yonks. I'm opening the Buck's Fizz.

once went to a student event at Gloucester Uni misses point of thread entirely

The idea of 21 year olds doing a murder mystery confounds me. What's wrong with vodka, cheap weed and shagging your mates like normal people?

alorsmum can't believe I forgot "further to my earlier missive"

I'm going to have a glass of wine and crack out the kids Christmas Eve box while I muse on this further. I feel like we need another clue???

wow cool John le Carre stuff........thought it was gonna be used condoms

Look, is a member of the royal family trying to get off with your daughter or not?

If it was left lying around after a noisy party, I would not have thought it was being taken remotely seriously.

I just want to point out that discrete is an actual word meaning "individually separate and distinct"

Me thinks this thread is a bit above my station (because I've had to google a LOT), but am I correct that this is the gist:

Someone very high up in a private school or university is writing personal letters to a 'student' asking for their home address because they have shared some kind of relationship in a teacher/pupil way even though this pupil is over 20, or maybe it began a few years ago .... it just sounds so upstairs/downstairs and I'm afraid I now feel like I belong in the basement

I would think most people know what discrete means

Autocorrect doesn't change discreet to discrete on my phone though

Autocorrect doesn't change discreet to discrete on my phone though

Maybe THAT is a clue!

To OP's professional role that brought her into contact with the August body herself. She sends emails about mathsy things a lot? 🤔

I assumed DC was a boy (perhaps my view of said august body is clouded somewhat).

Thank you seminormal
Should have known that!

Ooooh I've re-read and my mind is wandering more from university to more political and I whiff a scandal in the making ............. talking of making, need to do the beds because this is confusing the heck out of me now!

OMG!!! I've just realised where the word "concrete" comes from, it's an aggregate. Thank you MN!
(I did know both meanings discreet/discrete, just never clicked before).

Please tell me you have now woken the children fo get an update op

No, Serialweightwatcher, a boy/young man who went to school with the OP's son has received a letter from a person who works at an important institution which accepts work experience placements from the school. A lot of the boys who get work placements there end up working there. The letter was a bit personal, not professional, and was asking for contact details and calling for discretion, and this letter was taken so seriously that it was left lying around at a party...

What is happening? Have I stumbled into some weird riddle?

What is this thread about exactly?

Ah...thank you roundaboutthetown :)

Who has shagged someone they shouldn't have then? Clearly this is the crux of it.

(Also, august- pronounced like the month?)

No, emphasis on the second syllable a bit like disgust.

And Gloucester Uni- Is that the old Gloscat or aggy college?

See I first read it in a haze of not had coffee yet and thought 'why the hell are they hanging on to such old letters. August was months ago'