Class of '18 Best foot forward through the autumn leaves.

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TheFirstOHN thank you. I'm sure she will.

I hope your DD feels better soon Gnome

DD is absolutely loving her job.The people are really nice and friendly, and she has been given loads of hours, so she has very little time to worry about being on her own. As someone has given notice to leave she may be in with a chance to become permanent after Christmas (fingers crossed). School are dragging their feet about her UCAS application. She has completed her personal statement and just needs a couple of questions answered so she can send in her application.

That’s great Loni.

DD has been busy completing her first tranche of essays. I’m pleased she seems to have curtailed her social activities to get them done.

Ds1 has done fine in his first big essay. He thought not, but apparently he was high B level.
He says that the night club vibe has very much fizzled out, as most people want to do other sorts of socialising now. He has moved onto genteel socialising in the pub rather reluctantly . Next step is to meet people for coffee and rambles..I hope... We are getting a few more phone calls now, namely one in response to my John Lewis Ad text (it made me rather teary, although I cannot say that ds is going to turn into Elton John, nor did he jump up and down with delight when presented with a piano - we have one but he still cannot really play it after ten years)

We are booked to go to Hamilton in December. I'm terrified my credit card won't work, they say you can swipe it when it has expired, and you don't need to update it, unless you have actually lost it.

Good to read that people are settling into their studies. I think that the first round of assessed work does start to sort the sheep from the goats. Those students just along for the ride start to find that there are fewer people to party with as the ones there for the course realise that essays dont write themselves.

Looking forward to ds flying home on 9th December.
He has been doing lots of shopping for me in Tesco's - xmas cake, chocolate, stollen, chocolate oranges..
Will be nice to see him too! :)

ds is in such a great town for shops..I am wondering whether I could wangle going Christmas Shopping with him. He starts to get that hunted look very quickly alas..

Gnome I think ds is definitely hanging around the "goat" camp, slightly bewildered that the party spirit has evaporated and that he is really in university to do a "degree" we did warn him

Uni city has a very large Christmas market. My friend and I are planning on having a day or two in a cheap city centre Travelodge and DS can come out for dinner/breakfast if he wants. The last time we went we covered eight miles in the search for the perfect boots - as she found them we counted it as a success.

ShanghaiDiva that sounded like a big shopping list!

When we lived in the Netherlands, Christmas crackers were stupendously expensive.

One year we did our normal pre-Christmas trip to the UK then returned to NL with a car full of crackers for the children's school Christmas meal. 100 crackers take up a lot of car space!

I bet they do Gnome!

Marmite how are you holding up?

I'm ok thanks Kitten.

I had my second chemo yesterday and I am on the expensive anti sickness drugs now which are much better.
Had to clipper my head last weekend. Lost about 60% now I think. Learning to tie scarves and have many hats. It's just so damn hot wearing things on your head all of the time!

DD1 had to go to the walk in centre today. She is on antibiotics for a chest infection. I hate her being poorly and so far away, especially as she panics when she is ill. Bless her.

I am reading all of the thread here and trying to keep up!

marmite it's good to hear from you. I'm sure you will carry off the headwear with style & panache.

Hope your DD gets better soon.

Thanks First. I will do my best!!

Yes hopefully antibiotics will start working soon.

marmite Lovely to hear from you.

I was going to say "with aplomb" but I wasn't confident enough about the meaning to use it in a sentence. Having looked it up, I'm sure you will have that too.

Looking out of the window now it appears to be the right season for hats, possibly woolly ones with enormous pom poms. I hope the anti emetics and the antibiotics do the job for both of you Marmite.

good to see your update Marmite. I have been thinking of you. I hope your DD feels better soon. At least she can't pass her germs on to you.

Positive thoughts for you Marmite. We are definitely heading into hat weather.

I hope your DD is feeling better soon. Chest infections are horrible things and so painful.

Nettleskeins I hope your DS finds his inner academic soon. I think some do take a while to realise that where there is freedom there is also responsibility.

DD2 is now recovered and enjoying a weekend with school friends doing 'come uni with me'. They were doing Nottingham this weekend. Apparently scored well!

Good to hear you Marmite - definitely hat weather here this morning x

DD is visiting a friend at her university this weekend, but some of her friend's flatmates have spoilt it for her somewhat.

DD is vegetarian and one of the girls has taken exception to her because of this. She is rude about everything DD eats and only eats meat (literally). Yesterday she ate a big slab of meat with her bare hands and had nothing else with it, no vegetables, nothing. DD's food was served with meaty greasy tongs.

At least DD was grown up enough not to make a fuss as she doesn't want to make things awkward for her friend. Her friend's sister is vegetarian and so she is used to eating veggie food at home anyway. I doubt that DD will visit her again.

I'm glad the new meds are much better for you marmite. It must have been rather miserable on the less effective ones. If it's any consolation, it's going to cool down substantially this week which might help with the overheating issue, when outdoors anyway.

I hope your dds antibiotics kick in quickly. When does she come home?

That sounds very unnecessarily unpleasant of the friends flatmate Lonicera!

dd managed to get her work done early this week so is taking the weekend (well after saturday morning lectures were finished) off to enjoy a bit of life. That's a great relief, it was beginning to sound very intense.

I don't understand why some people get upset about other people's life choices when it doesn't affect them. DD was ranting to me on Messenger yesterday about it.

LoniceraJaponica so was this one of your DD's friends or a flatmate of the friend?

Whoever that sounds deeply unpleasant. It is sad that some playground bullies never quite manage to grow out of the habit.

The flatmate of the friend, not DD's friend.