Class of '18 nattering as they head in different directions.

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Hope this works. On phone with dodgy signal.

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Oh kitten. It is going to get to all of us at some point! Maybe we should have a competition for the most embarrassing place to cry?!!
Men are not good at dealing with crying sometimes. Maybe he was worried about getting upset himself?

When I was crying at the hospital the other week my DH started talking to the nurse about percentages and statistics for certain benefits of operations above others. It was his way of coping!

yikes at a weeping competition!
It's been a bad couple of weeks for other stuff, but I need to just pull myself together. I want to enjoy this time with dd.

Men are funny creatures aren't they! dh panic bought cream cakes

dds crocheted thing has grown beyond a scarf though. It's almost a lap blanket for a very short lap.

Kitten, if it's any help, I have googled an Asda near a tube station (4 minute walk) and have done a click and collect order. I've been checking it each day so I can replace stuff if it goes out of stock.

I've also arranged probably against the rules-rules be damned for a delivery that Ds1 knows nothing about for moving in day.
I've told him we hope to go out for food before we leave him and he and his flatmates are planning to shop for basics on the sunday.
We are going by train so I plan to travel reasonably light bought myself an iron today so he can take the cheap, make do after the fire one.

I would cry more if it meant cream cakes!!

iron Little Drummer? What is this thing of which you speak?

I wish I had the art of packing lightly. dds town does have shops. I need to try and remember that, but as someone with slight prepper tendencies it's hard to imagine her without the various emergency stocks we have.

ds's halls have an iron kept in a special cupboard by the warden and they have to request it and then return it! Presumably ironing accidents are common...or maybe they use too much electricity?

Ds1 has said the reason he is in his room all day because he is "writing his script". He did then collect ds2 from his friend's house on foot. Clearly he starts energising at about 6pm, this does not bode well. Still has to wash his clothes from the suitcase he brought back from holiday/relatives a week ago. I'm not doing it. He is hopefully running out of interesting clothes now.

I've just pointed out that washing needs to be done or he can take the dirty clothes with him and start off his new life by doing laundry. As if by magic the empty laundry basket became full.

I delivered DD to Paris just over a week ago, she seems to be getting on all right. Induction day tomorrow and classes start on Tuesday! She already has timetables for both class groups but doesn't know which one she will be in. Her schedule will be much denser than a typical university timetable (she will have between 29 and 32 hours of class depending on what options she takes).

She has been to the laundrette today and managed to come home minus a sock (I told her to look inside her duvet cover ). Hopefully if she tumble dries her shirts and then hangs them up she can get away without ironing. She has an ironing board but no iron!

Raspberry hope you are feeling a bit better today. I've been alright but the house does feel empty ... dd is a "big" personality so it's left quite a hole.

I dropped DD off earlier. I may have sobbed. It all went very smoothly, we even got parked right at the door for as long as we wanted.

Raspberry, Hardwick, Petals and Mist,

Wishing you all peace in your hearts as you adjust to this new norm.

Good luck to everyone's DC. I feel wistful that DD has decided not to go this year. She is going to miss the daily interaction with people her own age. Her boyfriend went today, and her best friend goes next week.

I took DD and best friend to the zoo today, and all had a great time.

Hope everyone who’s DC’s have left are feeling better today.
The pain gets easier you just have to keep busy.
Sounds like it could get tough for your dd in the coming weeks loni I’m sure she will enjoy her time out and it will do her some good.
Dd wishes she had taken a gap year as a ‘break’

Loads of luck to your DD Fantasy. I hope she finds her "tribe" and is back to good health soon. I know it has been tough for both of you

Lots of luck to those DC’s who have started already. DS has three more weeks to wait, it’s starting to feel a bit like waiting for a baby to arrive, you get to that point where you don’t really want to experience the pain of labour but you just want it over with! He is starting to get a bit bored I think, there are a few last nights out planned with friends who are going or have already gone and I think they all need a bit of routine and structure in their lives again. They are all a bit aimless at the moment. School seems such a long time ago.

They suspect she has athuritis. We are keeping gp and hospital appointments up here for time being until we get closer to a diagnosis.
She’s a little worried as everyone has bought freshers tickets but work didn’t pay her right so she hasn’t got the money to pay for them and some of them are £60
She’s also worried as there’s not many in the group chats for her subject or Halls
I said but might not join them and they will Be more 😅
Next week is the last full week at home

Is she under the rheumatology team?

We had this with DD when she was 11. She doesn't have RA, but a rare bone disorder (not life threatening or life limiting in any way). They only discovered it after three months of tests and being able to eliminate everything else. I hope you get some answers soon.

to everyone dealing with their DCs heading off to their new lives.

DD starts her job this week. I think it's going to be a big shock having to work FT!

Cooked a roast this evening, and it was weird preparing fewer roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. Dc has been boozing two nights in a row, so,obviously settling in well.

Choc - is she doing an apprenticeship?

Good luck to everyone who has already dropped DC at uni. I hope you all adjust to quieter houses soon, and hopefully the dcs will be enjoying themselves too much to be homesick.

DD doesn't go for ages!!!! She's here for another 3 weeks. I'm ready for her to leave now, although we haven't done any shipping for essentials because she hasn't made a list of what she needs or what she's already got. I keep expecting her to do something around the house since she's the only one at home all day, but invariably I'm disappointed. She did wash her own clothes one day and she collected dd2 from the cm the day I had inset after school, but other than that she seems to be making a mess in her bedroom again and not a lot else .

DH now unwell so I am sitting alone opposite a ruined Greek temple drinking wine as the shops are shut here in Sicily.

DD informs me that the milk went off five days ago. The dog has lost the plot and shredded the rug. She lost her bank card yesterday evening and the presents people had bought her.

I don't care. Hic.

Have one for me Ursula. That could be a glass or a bottle at your discretion.

I don't know why you need to know about the milk, is she leaving it there for your approval or something?

I think there are presents ahead this week, DS has a "last" coming up. I am hoping that it will turn out to be a gift card rather than one of the carefully thought gifts that they had suggested to me (duplicating something he already has or something he's had in the past and got rid of)

I saw this week that HSBC now let you put a temporary stop on a card for those occasions when you suspect that it's around here somewhere rather than definitely stolen.

Ursula this could be your Shirley Valentine moment.

I am wearing freshly washed and dried on the balcony underwear. Maybe.