The one with the brief glimpse of summer. It’s countdown to Christmas thread 3!

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Here it is!

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MRS D!!!!!!!!
how’s martha!!

I’m trying to keep up as well. I’m well behind on Christmas shopping.

And I would love to give blood but I’m not allowed anymore due to medication.

Sorry you're not well Fluffy

Just had a cheese and mushroom omelette and a banana. 😋🍄🍌

Hairspray your sister sounds a lot like my DD1. 26 and doing a PhD.

Have put a wash on and swapped washing over on radiators. 😆

No garden there, Buttocks? We washed everything yesterday so haven't managed to make the most of today's drying weather today!

Indian fake-away night tonight: butter chicken with homemade naan bread!

Yes but the weather forecast kept threatening rain.

Had sausage pasta bake and garlic bread for supper. 😋

DS2 will go to bed at 7. 😴

DD will go to bed at 8.30. 😴

Ours got damp yesterday when a monsoon came down! I just stick it out unless it's actually wet at the time!

It's the uniforms and PE kits. I really need them dry. I give them a blast of full heat for an hour in the morning, and they're dry by the next morning. 😊

I'm in bed now. 😴

DD's PE kit went AWOL. God knows who has it, but we got someone else's, who didn't have ours!

We've had stunning weather so getting stuff dry hasn't been a problem. Putting the heating on would be; it's 23 degrees indoors at the moment!

I have to open the door too. It's kept saying it was going to rain, we had torrential rain on Tuesday, then again today at 5pm, when I had to go to Sainsbury's to replace things my aunt forgot.

I haven't even checked the name on DS2's PE kit! DD wears hers under her uniform for modesty, so no danger of coming home with the wrong one! Thank goodness for separate changing in yr 6! 😆

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Hello MrsD! How is your adorable DD?

Finally got DS sorted for secondary school - he's happy and looking forward to it.

Morning! I'm the only one awake! 😆

DS2's on the WiFi. 😆

Glad you're sorted, Woolly. I bet it's a relief!

Our two are awake far too early. Again. 💤💤💤 This sticky weather doesn't help matters!

Woolly DD goes into yr6 in September. When should we put our application in for secondary school? 😆

Deadline is early October, I think, Buttocks. Your local authority should already have it on their website.

They don't. They're still talking about 2018. I'll have to wait. DD wants to go to our nearest one, 8 minutes walk! All the others would be a bus. I've no idea what our second choice would be.

Morning.. am posting while sat on train to work, and they have been rude enough to make it even earlier on the new timetable .. had to be out door at 6.45! .. my legs are killing as ds has finally convinced me to start kickboxing with him twice a week. Was fine with all the syllabus stuff but the squats and press ups were the killer! Hope everyone is well and Mrs D.. lovely to meet you 🙂. Having a quiet one tonight as DH working an extra shift today too. So hopefully can catch up properly on all happenings on here. Happy Saturday all x

Last year's stats should be available to see numbers of applications vs numbers taken at the school, plus the numbers taken in their specific criteria.

Last year's date will be broadly similar to this year. It'll be the same day of the week as last year, so the date will just shift a bit earlier. You'll be able to work it out quite easily.

Ah, it's 31 October. That won't change at all. Easy then!