Class of 18. No need for new school shoes

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A thread for those of us whose kids left school/sixth form/college a year ago. Friendly chat :)

Anyway I hope your dd has a really lovely birthday and that you have a nice night away.

I hope you have a nice night away Ursula, my room was lovely but the things I'd been looking forward to in the hotel were closed. DS is in an area of local lockdown so we could have met in the bar or the restaurant except both were closed. I did look at the website before I booked and managed to see the menus but not the closures.

Happy birthday to your dd Ursula.
Ds goes back on Friday. He is sharing a house with two friends so not too worried about him, although the number of cases in Coventry is considerably higher than where we live.

Well Hurrah. DD has tested positive for CV!!!!

Meal and hotel cancelled. I'm driving over and leaving cake and presents on the doorstep.

Couldn't make it up.....

Ursula It's better that she knows now rather than finding out after the lunch and cocktails. Is she poorly or ok but positive?

Sorry to hear that @UrsulaPandress but best wishes to your dd for a speedy recovery and hoping her illness isn't too serious.
for your dd and for you, after you have finished your driving!
Are we really starting 21st birthdays already - doesn't seem long to me since we were discussing 18th birthdays!

Nooooo Ursula. Flipping heck, thats unlucky.
At least when you do next see her, you'll know she's not going to silently infect you. I hope she recovers very quickly.

Oh no!
Hope she recovers quickly.

Thanks all. To add insult to injury it was pouring down yesterday so my plan to sit on her wall and watch her open her presents was thwarted. A friend and I drove over, put gifts and cake etc inside the open door and she and her friend retrieved them. Quick to trip to Asda for a vase as she had some flowers delivered and then we drove home.

I facetimed her and we drank champagne at 20:42, the time she was born.

She doesn't seem ill so that's a blessing. I really need to read up on the rules of isolation as I have to confess I'm confused. The friend she is staying with tested negative but will she need to retest? How long are you contagious for? Does DD have to retest before she comes out of isolation? When can I take her to the beach with the dog?

Off to Google.

Hope all your DCs are doing OK.

Hello everyone! Ds2, at Lancaster doing hist.and politics just tested positive today, stmptoms sunday night, tested tues, resukt today.
So answer I think ursula is,
From date of symptoms, if positive result sunsequent patient has to.selfisolate 10 days. Household contacts have to self isolate 14'days from date of sufferers symptoms, not their test. Howe er if they test negative they still have the 14 days. If they test positive oror have, symptoms it shortens slightly, howev er, it mayis be of course they have already had it a while ago and no one knew that. Still have to self isolate.
Ds1 fine, very low in summer, but bit better back at uni with some social.contact.

Happy 21st to your dd ursula and so glad you have a cuddly dog again and happy that you looked after previous rescue to beautifully when he sounded so difficult. He is looking down now from dog heaven beach having made friends with your beloved first dog.

Knot. That is very frustrating. Very.

Im becoming less and less obedient. Gave my dad a big hug last.time I saw him and am not sorry for not obeying soc distancing.

My dad doesnt have any health conditions tho (except extreme dogged stubborn age now.86 and walking five miles a day)sorry ursula just re read your post, I know your dh had a heart op recently.

I wish I could.give ds1 another year of uni, he is adamant about staying in cohort though. Missed out so much last year, even if he went through motions. If only the wretched choirs would restart, unfortunately.they were all.small amateur outfits no big churches to soc.distance in. All theatricals seem suspended unless you are the.main solo ist.
Howe wr he likes his new flat, 7 girls and him. None of them knew each other so quite a calm atmosphere, more like lodgers together. He had a massive row.with one though over amazon cardboatd.boxes. I think he genuinely.hasnt realised how messy he is. We tell him often but it doesnt.sink in. He said her comments hurt his feelings. Hmm.
I feel like he is still a.fresher without a cause

Well hurah, I have now broken my wrist. And got a stinking cold to boot.

When I broke my right wrist, badly, 30 years ago, I was in work the next day, went horse riding and flew to South Africa for a holiday. This time it's my left wrist (I'm right handed) and I'm having to go without underwear .

Honestly age has a lot to answer for.

And yes a Spaniel was involved ...

I wouldn't mind going without underwear providing I didn't have to leave the house although now it's turned a bit cooler I would probably miss that extra layer. Can you not pretend you did it skydiving or while very drunk?

I've got a cold as well. I'm not sure how seeing as I go nowhere and see no-one.

Yes it's the extra layer I miss.

I've had a cold for about six weeks now. Definitely need the red flannel petticoat.

I can hardly put tights on without falling over. Dressingowns will come back into fashion this winter mark my words. Those ones you wear with curlers.

Ds2 is getting a bit despairing in his self isolating flat. There is nothing to do he said but wait for the next lecture on the Fall of The zRoman Empire.

Knot...are you weaving anything ATM? I am going to cheer everyone by posting pic of DDS latest creation in next few hours if I can make tinternet work.

I am supposed to be weaving fabric for a swing dress, I thought I'd wear it over a long sleeved t shirt and thick tights. This involved measuring myself and acknowledging the inches and pounds I'd gained since February. I've now lost half a stone so I might look at it again.

Earlier in the year I started a jacket, it's at that stage where it's rested for months and probably only needs a couple of hours to finish it.

DD weaving from lockdown

I think it is an artefact rather than garment

Too big for a scarf, too narrow for a blanket

Either hang it and let it be art or make it into a bag. There is a bag made all of one piece without any cutting but you need a couple of yards of length:

donisdelis.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-tutorial.html

She likes hanging artworks up!
Ds2 has told me the kebab takeaway on campus is so busy he has not managed to get a delivery call thro for 10 days. I advised calling at tea time not supper. He said at tea time he was too busy with the decline of the Roman empire.

Ds1 now about to start self isolating in his flat of 8. All a bit strange, someone who is a close contact of one of flat dwellers but not a household member, but so close a contact that they have decided it counts as household (bf). I said wait till you are contact traced and by all means isolate but if you aren't a close contact of that individual and he doesn't live in your house, legally you aren't bound to self isolate. Or is he part of their houshold bubble, in which case are none of the rest of them allowed bfs and gfs extra terrrestially? All it proves is that most student bubbles will be de facto very much larger than they let on.
Anyway they are all self isolating conscientiously but who knows about the other partners who live out?

DS is in a teaching bubble of nearly 30 and a flat bubble of 6. I thought you could only be in one at once but it's education so different rules seem to apply. Once of the big bubble tested positive this week and DS was holding his breath while they looked at the seating plan and who was where, when, with who. They have all been responsible social distancers apparantly and he still has his freedom.

It's very quiet here now, but I thought I'd pop in and just wave hello.

DD1 is having the best year of her life I think. She is in Scotland, and so under different measures than we are at home, but is really happy in her flat this year and loving working at home. She has only had one in person tutorial, which was last week and she loved it. She said everyone was so happy just to be out and seeing other people that it was a fantastic group. She is going to be away for her 21st though, which I am sad about. Under normal circumstances, she could at least celebrate with friends if not us. In my mind she'd go out clubbing and wake up the next morning with her mascara still on. The reality with only one flat mate, is likely to be a bit more mundane.

MIL died a couple of weeks ago, and so we all got together for the funeral. We rented a house together, even though we strictly shouldn't have. We decided that the whole funeral and clearing MIL's things out of her sheltered housing in less that a week would be unbearable if we could not be together and so it was a risk we needed to take. At that point it was still a very real possibility that DD1 or DD2 could find it difficult to get home for Christmas and with losing MIL very quickly and unexpectedly we were all a bit broken. The time together was quite healing.

My school has had it's first bubble closure. The atmosphere in school changed very quickly initially because some of the SLT were included in isolating, but we have all got used to the slightly quiet corridors. I think the lack of contact between year groups this term has made it relatively easy.

We got DDog groomed today for the first time in years. He stinks of dog perfume. I'm sorely tempted to rinse him under the hose just to calm the smell down a little. His fringe is super neat though, which is lovely.

I hope everyone else is muddling along too, and your DC are coping well with the new ways of being.