Class of '18 now in 2019. blimey.

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dd is on early shift today and had to be there for when the shop opens at 8am. A shock to the system for all of us on a Monday morning.

Hello!

DD has returned to uni. Her cat is camping out on her bed awaiting her return...😿 I haven’t had the heart to tell him he will have a long wait.

DD, bless her, phoned all excited after her first exam. She told me she had a bit of a moment when she was first in the hall - 'this is me, actually at University sitting a University exam' sort of thing (like a lot women she suffers from imposter syndrome) but it went really well she feels. It was Modern European History which to be fair she should be word perfect on by now having done it for GCSE and A level, but she managed to bring in the war graves and poets and other random stuff. It's good to see her so fired up. She wrote reams but says some students were doodling and colouring in. I suppose first year doesn't matter but I'm happy she is making an effort.

Nettleskeins sorry to hear about your relative.

DS1 messaged me to say his attendance is 100% so far this term. He has had one lecture. 😆

He also managed to go to the gym which is positive.

I am sorry Nettles, my mother lost a sibling last week and we are waiting for the date of the funeral. Even when it means that it is the end of a long illness it's still an ending of all the good times as well.

Regular readers may recall that at the start of last term DS managed to be timetabled for A and B where it should have been A or B and didn't find out until he'd put in the assignment months early. Oh how we laughed. He was five minutes into a lecture this morning when it all seemed very familiar, he checked on his laptop and there were the notes he wrote last term. I did tell him he would get the benefit sooner or later and it looks like being now.

Ursula how is the dog this week?

don't worry about me, it is really my mum who is upset and other closer relatives - still, when someone has been there your entire life it feels very odd

exciting to hear about the Exam Hall Ursula. I do have a penchant for that exam "buzz"

Ds2 forgot his key again and has been waiting no less than an hour and a half outside our door whilst I went for a run (that bit took about 10mins which was all I could manage) He had already managed to prise open the window but alas only his school knapsack would fit through not his head, I dread to think how easily a real burglar would have got in armed with a wrench. Ds's school is about a minute away so I asked why he didn't go back to the library and work. He said he thought ds1 was delibarately not answering the door and if he rang the doorbell for long enough he would eventually get out of bed!!!!! (ds1 had in fact gone out to see The Favourite) Poor neighbours, that must have been a racket.

I think McDonalds was an interlude too. Between doorbell ringing episodes.

I was telling DD and DH about your son's over enthusiastic lecture attendance.

Dog is OK thanks. He seemed to have a bit of relapse on Saturday and I was worried he had damaged his metalwork, but he seems to have got over that. He was standing fully on his 'bad' leg to pee so I think maybe he had overdone it. He is being a remarkably good patient. I imagine he is depressed but he is lucky to have one of us with him all the time instead of being stuck in his cage. He has become a cage refuser and I was worried we might do some damage dragging him across the floor then heaving him in to his cage. I am going stir crazy but cannot bring myself to go for a walk without him. Solidarity and all that.

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I'm sorry Nettles. Hope your mum is ok.

We had my DF's funeral today which was sad but I was so proud to have him as my Dad. The crematorium was full and there were so many stories of fun and love at the wake. It seemed like a fitting send off.

DD1 is going to chemo with me on Friday and then back to uni on Saturday. Then I will only have one more chemo left to do. Yay!!

I have got used to having DD1 home so it will be weird when she goes again but much tidier!!

Glad the funeral went well and hurrah for last chemo.

Checking for new thread. Ds1 went back last Saturday and messaged me on Monday to say he felt homesick. I facetimed him and told him to make plans to meet friends. By Tuesday he seemed to have settled back in. He has had the results of his first exam back, he said he would be happy to make the pass mark of 50% and ended up with over 70% so he was very pleased.
Sorry to hear about your sad news Nettles.
Marmite, I'm glad the funeral and chemo went well.
I'm envious of your older kitchenware, all of ours went in the fire last year. Trying to find similar has been challenging in some areas.

I'm here. DD has a job interview today for a job she doesn't want. She did her first stint of hospital volunteering last week. The volunteer who was showing her the ropes did all sorts of inappropriate stuff like reading patient records and majorly pissing the nurses off. I told DD to report it to the team that organises the volunteering as it might reflect back on her.

It's been a sad start to the year for some.

Sorry for your family's loss too Knotaknitter

Glad all went well with your DF's funeral marmite and yay for last chemo sessions. Wishing you well.

DS has his first exam tomorrow so will feedback on his thoughts once that's out of the way. I've just renewed his car insurance and was so pleased that it has halved was only a 3 figure sum rather than the obscene 4 figures last year.

Hello joining in again after a busy an not too healthy Christmas.
marmite a good funeral is bitter sweet . Great that the end of chemo is in sight.
lonerica not a good start to volunteering. I hope it improves and she enjoys it.

I took dd back on Saturday, stayed with my mum who is a lot better and came home yesterday.

I do miss dd. Ds and Dh are not great conversationalists so I miss her chats, even though we skype every night. Something has gone wrong with the university results system so dd doesn't have her exam results yet (or so she tells me but she doesn't usually make such evasions)

Does anyone know about washer dryers? The one they have installed for dd to use is an ordinary domestic washer dryer. However it seems to take an extraordinarily long time. We put in a load of towels at 4.30pm and at 10.30 pm it was still drying so dd gave up and went to bed. It had finished by the morning but even for towels that seems excessive to me.

That is interesting about your DDs results NoHaudin DD has not mentioned hers yet, and I have been reluctant to ask. Hopefully hers are also just delayed. I think she said they had been told they would have them by the end of the month.

I seem to remember having a washer/dryer many moons ago and it too ages to do anything.

Thanks ursula. Perhaps it is just the nature of the beast. At least there are only two of them using it so it isn't a huge problem.

NoHaudin my limited experience of washer driers is that a full load for drying is a half load for washing. Towels are tricky because if you have an unbalanced load in the wash (say if you are only washing one bath sheet) then it doesn't do a full speed spin because it can't balance the drum.

washer dryers only DRY a half load. I used to have one for quite a while. Also the temperature setting button at the front can be misleading, ie pushed in can be low heat, out is high heat. That was a mistake I often used to make. Also if you make the mistake of washing clothes on a low spin cycle (can often be the case with "Automatic, easy care" programmes they spin at much lower rates to stop creasing, there is far more water left. For towels I would always use a hot wash with a fast spin. woollen programme ir shirts for example again would leave clothes sopping, most people would hang those things up to dry rather than dry them in a drier ifysim.

OR the filter might need changing or it could be full of water already, is it vented etc? I would think it was a problem with the drier which should be flagged up. She cannot be going backwards and forwards to check if things are dry surely, that is not very disability friendly for her.

Marmite glad that your father's funeral went well, they can be such uplifting occasions and a real release. hope you get through this week with the treatment.

I was very depressed by ds1 yesterday and his habits, but today has been slightly better and he has been helping (for about 10 minutes) his brother sing Into the Woods for an audition and went for a long long walk in the rain. As Dh and someone else famous said, "he who is tired of London is tired of Life" and we are not observing much enthusiasm for London currently . Still walking, which he has done every day for two hours, is good.

The problem when they are upset is that you can't go and give them a hug :(

kitten no that is the hardest bit. Is dd upset?

ursula the washing and rinsing cycle was taking ages too. I think there is a problem with the installation but I will get dd to try again with a small load and then flag it up with housekeeping if there is still no improvement.

NoHaudin I have recently bought a new washer, if I wash cottons and just let it get on with it the wash takes three hours as it defaults to heavy soil. Does she have access to the manual because there was a table in mine that showed how long each cycle would take.

She was very upset earlier.

My washing machine takes 2.5 hours for a normal wash. Which is stupid, I could grow the cotton and weave a t shirt practically in that time.