Last term of Year 13. Gulp.

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

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All welcome no matter which path your dc have chosen.

mine will be remembered as the summer of the fifty gazillion maths exams and the year all our arteries hardened.

Do I see light at the end of the tunnel?
I'll probably be bored rigid

Oh Ursula I feel your pain!
I hate the way some girls think that they "own" a certain style once they've bought it, and nobody else is allowed to wear it.

Fine if she designed some completely unique Couture gown and had it made especially for her . . . But if you buy a frock from a high street shop you've got to accept that others are going to be wearing similar, or even the same!

I could say that DD would rock the look so much better than her friend but that would be bitchy.

Haha! Probably exactly why the friend is kicking up a fuss!

Good luck everyone for the week ahead. 4 more exams for us so a bit of a slog and no let up with the revision all weekend. House looks like a bomb site as I’m not allowed to move anything or make a noise with the vacuum so I’m itching for a good clean through. I was allowed to open a few windows for an hour this afternoon which was just in the nick of time, before we all ran out of oxygen I’ve been really trying to cut down on my alcohol intake (don’t drink that much but just making an effort to be a bit healthier) but have to admit that went out the window this evening with a couple of large glasses of wine!

Wine always helps.

Good luck to everyone with exams this week and I hope the papers are kind.

Sorry to hear the dress woes continue Ursula. Quite agree that the other girl should lump it!!!

Well after 3 nights out partying ds needs to his the revision again this week.

No exams this week but 3 the week after.
When I may get out dining table back which is still covered in piles of notes.

6 weeks and counting of eating every meal at the breakfast bar!

May the week ahead illness and tear free.

Best wishes to everyone this week. For us it is the week of many maths papers plus the final chemistry paper.

Just to add t the mix we are waiting on DD1's final degree results. In case I want to stress about something different!

Good luck all for the exams this week!

Wine may, or may not have been a part of my night last night too!

Yikes Gnome, that's scary!

Good luck everyone. A lot of exams today by the look of things. dd is safely out of the house. I'm not going to miss these early starts.

Good luck to everyone'sDC. DD has biology 3 this morning. She has got so bored of revising the same subjects over and over that she says she feels saturated.

Much sneezing this morning. From memory the prescription he had in Y10 didn't really nail the hay fever either.

Hope the hay fever subsides a bit Knitting, it must be miserable trying to concentrate on anything with constant sneezing.
Lonicera my DD said similar at the weekend - she has reached the point where nothing else will go in!

Good Luck all for today 🍀

"she has reached the point where nothing else will go in!"

That is exactly what DD said yesterday. Not much revision got done this weekend.

Good luck to everyone with exams today.

Main stress here has been whether to go to Leavers' Assembly on Friday afternoon!

Just dropped DD off for the music exam. She is very nervous. Most she has been for this whole thing. Just hope she doesn't panic and reads the questions properly! Will be waiting for the text after 11.30!!
Good luck all.

Geography Paper 3 for DD here as we speak! She's worried about the 9 marker, but also says she can't absorb anymore now. I derived great pleasure from clearing out a huge pile of exam paperwork from DD's room & into the recycling container last night

Good luck everyone - here's hoping those papers are nice ones for them all!

I am itching to clear out DD's room!! It is such a mess even her sister helped her tidy it yesterday to find some revision notes!

Just trying to take my mind off music papers and perusing amazon to see if you can buy non-iron bedding/duvet covers? Is that a thing?

dd's room is beginning to cave in under the pressure too.

I think that everything that claims to be non iron depends on how you treat them when they are drying and how you/they fold (or scrunch) them after

I heard dd coughing in the night. I woke up bolt upright. She doesn't even remember it!

Marmite I was itching to clear more out too & dust, but DD was adamant nothing else to go yet!

I must confess to never ironing bed linen All I do know is the higher the thread count on bedding the worse it is for creasing/needing ironing. I tend to stick to M&S & Ikea

OYBBK I am the same with night noises. Even if they go to the loo in the night I think they are ill. Which is ridiculous when I think of how many times I go to the loo in the night! Oh the joys of anxiety!

& like Kitten says, hanging it up as soon as wash finished

DD sitting Biology Paper 3 now, not Geography! brain addled by too many exams now!