Sorry for waiters, Fonty for Durham and Edinburgh. Monkey. Is NCT still waiting? I feel very cross / aggrieved at these Unis, on your behalf!
Fiddler, sorry to hear that. Book again, anywhere, then use app such as : attached, where you can select 3 local preferred sites rather than the John o'groats you've booked. £15, but so worth it.
Laughed at Fonty's Grand Prix A'level.
Yesterday ds1 complained at all these revision classes and extra essays and after school sessions he's having to go to. I said it was just the school covering themselves, providing revision that all children had to do, just incase some children weren't doing it at home. (ie because very poor, no laptops, not having supportive parents). (Or entitled privileged children who for some unknown reason weren't knuckling down to it). The subtly of my comment was Entirely lost on him.
Zebra, your post was spot on.
1)"And shout, which mine then used as retrospective justification for their behaviour. " He does this to me, and it drives me wild. He's so pompous and perfect. He doesn't swear. I trot along giving my absolute all, for months, and he sucks me dry emotionally with all the support I give him in all his accountancy applications, visiting endless universities. And then I start to get cross at things and I verbalise this and say - I find that hurtful. And then it continues and eventually I blow my top, swear. And then all he does is use that as ammunition. And I'm left powerless. Even when I explain - I only did that because you done a,b,c,d it just doesn't cut it, I've lost all the power.
2)I have asked him why. He says he doesn't know. He admits to being very judgemental. He's been making snidey comments about me being lazy, greedy. Dh pulls him up on it, but last night took him out to the garage and told him in no uncertain terms that it stops, now, or else he can piss off and live somewhere else.
Worse still, he doesn't think he's being rude. Now that's a problem. Because if he continues like this he won't last 2 minutes on his PwC work experience. I'm seriously starting to wonder if it's not just selfish 18 year olds which many of us here have, but something a bit deeper/ more worrying - his AS, which we haven't had much problems with in recent years, re/appearing. His lack of empathy, the way his brain works, suddenly looks very similar to what he was like when diagnosed.