Class of '18 still nattering.

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forgot the old link hang on a mo...

dd always uses Snapchat and ds2 has just formed an App of some kind, never on Facebook. I avoid it so I don't really mind being blocked anyway. But ds1 has many many media presences. And a youtube channel of some kind with a fake name where he reviews films.. lonicera it is fun going on visits with the academic pressure off, that is such good news from Newcastle. Tbh what I hear from Manchester is that is "wonderful amazing" but then socially quite demanding/clubbing vibe and very large numbers of students on the most popular courses because they have expanded so much, to detriment of the teaching/lecturing ratios.

nettle dd says London is safer than expected

That's useful to know Netttle. TBH DD didn't care for Manchester last year, but she was looking at the medical school. Manchester is too large IMO, but I won't be spending the next 3/4 years at university. Oh, and DD has an interview for a job on Thursday.

Lonerica hope the job interview goes well

DD's group of friends are a mix of non-drinkers/ very light drinkers just like at home. I"m sure she is being honest, she was worried before she went about being expected to party hard and finding like-minded people was a relief. She asked me to bring Uno down at the weekend to play with her flat mates.

I think she got her maintenance grant last week, slightly late because of her changed uni being earlier. DS1 doesn't get his until next week, on account of him not started back yet.

I'm eying up his growing pile of stuff to go back - it only gets worse over the years. On top of the pile is a carrot costume and a shark onesie.

Sorrry raspberry, you have a carrot costume and a shark onesie! The mind boggles. When you say ‘to,go back’, do you mean he wants them at uni, or has he got them at uni and decided he doesn’t Want them?can’t remember who set up,the football club, organised kit etc - very impressive!

To go back to uni with him. Though he has just decided to leave the carrot fancy dress at home.

There is a series of end of the year college parties at his uni, each with a different fancy dress theme. The carrot outfit was for 'farmfest', not sure for the shark.

It's lovely to read all the updates of how they are getting on.

Studying has started for dd. She enjoyed her first lectures and seems to have stopped going out every night. Found the launderette but having finally got her HSBC bank account sorted the first time she tried to use her card it didn't work. She claims to have activated it but who knows.

How frustrating ursula I am going up to see dd for a couple of days today. There are various practical things to sort out including her bank account and it seems she is getting a bit overwhelmed so I hope to set things straight so that she can carry on without too much stress.

Ursula DS was adamant that he had activated his HSBC card at a cash machine in accordance with the instructions and viewed his balance. He had it declined twice and went into a branch where they said that it hadn't been "fully validated", whatever that is, and fixed it for him.

She had to phone for help trying to log in and said it was the most torturous experience ever. I'll tell her to find a branch then at least it can be face to face. Thanks.

It's so much easier to go into a branch than try and deal with them on the phone.

I hope your dd starts to find things less strsssful soon NoHaudin. A lot of change and a lot of beurocracy (sp? sorry, extremely tired) all at once.

DD and I did the HSBC validation for her student account together - had to get her registered and passworded up for telephone banking first, and then she was able to register for online banking, through which she could validate the card. Never seen anything so cumbersome!

Today's update:
DS1 left a plate and knife in the kitchen last night. Someone vomited all over them. The culprit has washed them up, but DS1 has a germ phobia and wants to throw them away. He only has two sets. 😂

TheThird I sympathise with your DS. I remember someone cooking bacon in my frying pan. I don't eat bacon/pork products and however much it was washed there was always (to me anyway) a lingering smell of it. I threw it out.

I'd be the same Third. I still can't drink out of the glass that I gave a friend a drink in after she threw up in my toilet. It sits there looking germily at me. This happened about five years ago.
I've experimented by giving other people drinks of water in it, they appear to remain healthy, but I'm still suspicious.

Hello all... I hope you don't mind me barging in on your chat.

I am a Class of 18 mum with a small request - I wonder if those of you with DC at uni would mind helping me out with my thread? My DD has just started and I'd be very curious to know how much money your DC have to live on, to help me put DD's money situation into context.

Thanks!

OYBBK Throw that glass away.

That is grim Third.

Good idea Ursula, or I could put it in dds uni kit, she doesn't know about my fear of the glass. (though then I'd be always wondering if there was a single germ on it out to get her...)

Good grief! What sort of a mother would that you make you???

Bin it woman.

I wouldn't use the plate either. I've been thinking about it and I know it's clean after washing but no, just no. The thought of the knife doesn't affect me so much,

I would send him a new set of plate and cutlery and bin the glass Ursula. Life is too short to worry about these things, there is plenty more to worry about, that is for certain No-one needs to feel guilty about wasting one plate and one glass.

It is the mental image foreever captured in these objects that would concern me.

Yes, it's perhaps time to say goodbye to the glass!

Third ds would be equally horrified, your ds is perfectly normal to find it repellent. Ds1 is very particular about other people's glasses and cutlery anyway, and he hates wearing other people's clothes, even a coat or a scarf worn by someone else.. This doesn't make him tidy though.

still not really heard anything much apart from the blow by blow account of duvetgate. Beginning to miss ds, although I'm still not that worried about him.
I do wish he would just turn up on the bus though, that would be quite fun..to see if he really could commute for one day!