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MaryAnnSingleton · 12/02/2011 15:39

just in case we run out of space !

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LimeJellyforBrains · 22/03/2011 14:41

Looking back, I realise with gratitude how bloody brilliant our A-level English teachers were. They took us to that Beckett production in Oxford - what an opportunity! They also took us to Educating Rita with Julie Walters. Both 1980 I think (after a bit of googling). They also organised a whole theatre workshop weekend - staying in a hotel in London - based at the National Theatre where we also got to see a play in each of the 3 theatres there.

And one of them got 3 of us onto a fantastic poetry writing weekend run by the Arvon Foundation, based in an amazing house near Hebden Bridge. Halcyon days, great memories I remember how we travelled up the motorway - 3 students and the teacher - in a very dodgy car (windscreen wipers not working in the pouring rain). Wouldn't be allowed these days!

Cakesandale · 22/03/2011 15:14

LGF - so pleased about your results. Truly terrific news.

smee - yes, I told them - but the person I was speaking to was not the person who made the accusation. He's the head honcho and I rarely see him anymore now he has got so important. She was just firing the gun he loaded. TBH I am not going to even consider lowering my costs. Their customers all love the magazine, hell, even THEY love the magazine, but now they want to do it themselves on a DTP system, using a template. So good luck to them with that, I say. I'm not getting involved. We have been here before. They'll do one, it'll be shit and then I'll be doing it again, probably.

LJ, your teachers sound fab!

MaryAnnSingleton · 22/03/2011 15:24

LJ - wow ! sounds wonderful !!
Well done figgy for yesterday- sorry-I too forgot -it's quite hard to keep up !
Brilliant news too from LGF -yay !
Poor junior smee and bleeding nose and eeeeewwwvbut great news about your friend's dp- really hope sally has the same news.

I failed my A level English because I left out the entire section on Wordsworth (the dull old Prelude) I thought it was optional and was very pleased to skip him - I loved everything else !

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Figgyroll · 22/03/2011 15:26

Glad you got your scan results LGF and it hasn't gotten anywhere else. One less thing to worry about. I saw my consultant last Friday and they can see the lump has got softer too. She thought it was also smaller but wont be able to tell till I have some more tests when I'm half way through. I wonder if the other chemo drug you're having is Docetaxol? I'm having three of those first (with the Avastin) and then three of FEC.

It's good to hear (if you know what I mean) that some of you ladies have had the hot flushed faces too - it's reassuring to know it's not just me. I think I might have had it during the first cycle too - I'll dig out my little side effects books to see if I wrote it down and how long it lasted.

KurriKurri · 22/03/2011 16:27

at leaving out Wordsworth MAS - who can blame you?

LJ - sounds like you had brilliant teachers. WE got taken to see the RSC a few times (I saw Ian McKellen playing Romeo - which shows how long ago it was!)

Hope Sally is OK and home from the hospital.

KurriKurri · 22/03/2011 16:28

The thing to write your messages in has changed - that's thrown me completely!

LimeJellyforBrains · 22/03/2011 16:28

And all that fab teaching was 'just' the local comprehensive....

Smee What a rotten day for you. Have a now and a later. Where have those lovely St Davids daffs gone? Wish they'd kept them, would send those too. Hope DS is ok and it was a one-off. x

Cakes Seems to me you have a very realistic idea of what is going on there and are absolutely right in sticking to your guns. Maybe if they go away and try to come back to you they may find your rate has actually gone up in the meantime . Not unfair after 4 years!

MAS I had to do Wordsworth's Prelude for A Level too - wonder if we did the same paper/year? Bored the pants off us too.

KurriKurri · 22/03/2011 16:36

I somehow missed the bit about DS's nosebleed Smee - I hope he's better now.

Who had to do Chaucer? - We had the Knight's Tale (not one of the rude ones unfortunately). In my mock exam I translated a sentence which was something like 'the men fought like two boars' as 'the men fought like two bores' - my eng. teacher wrote 'Freudian slip!!' in big letters by the side

smee · 22/03/2011 16:41

Kurri, you're right - does feel a bit weird typing into a box. Like those auto-form fillers that always get my address wrong.

Thanks for kind words about DS's nose bleed. To be honest it wasn't a big drama, just annoying as it was in the middle of the night. Always astounds me how far not very much blood can go. DH slept through it all so didn't know anything about it. He nearly collapsed when he went in there this morning.

LJ, your teachers do sound good. I don't remember being taken anywhere. Not one theatre trip. Feel quite sorry for myself now.

MAS, I'm with you on the Wordsworth.

Sally, am still thinking about you. Hope it's only good news and you're out celebrating.

MaryAnnSingleton · 22/03/2011 17:34

new format has thrown me too !
LJ - you are way younger than me I'm sure,so maybe they recycle Wordsworth every millenium or something... we did Chaucer too- Nun's Priests Tale and the general prologue, Antony & cleopatra, Coriolanus, Persuasion and The Rainbow.... I did miserably in my biology A level too

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smee · 22/03/2011 17:48

How on earth can you remember?? I know we did Hamlet, but beyond that I can't remember anything.

KurriKurri · 22/03/2011 17:51

Smee - I can remember what I did for English A level, but not what I did yesterday, or where I've put my glasses

LimeJellyforBrains · 22/03/2011 18:17

Kurri Your memory is just like mine!

We were pleased our teachers chose not to do Chaucer. For Shakespeare we did King Lear and The Tempest. We did the Modern paper (Passage to India, Lawrence's Novellas, Dubliners and Thomas Hardy poems) and 19th Century (Sense & Sensibility, Frankenstein, Sheriden's School for Scandal and The Critic, and Wordsworth's Prelude).

Smee That's shocking really that you got no theatre trips!

I'm 48 MAS. And one day. I only got an E for EngLit - good at writing essays, hopeless at timing - I would go on and on (what's changed you cry). Basically did 2½ essays instead of four for each paper!

smee · 22/03/2011 18:37

Blimey, you're all elephants. Apart from Kurri, who is just I am trying to convince myself it's because I did an English degree, so that supplanted the A level memories. Obviously no-one is to ask me what texts I studied for that though. Really is going to bug me now. Will probably still be trying to remember at 3am...

SparkleRainbow · 22/03/2011 18:49

Sparkle crumples into heap over being able to remember nothing from A levels, and very little from degree.

I can however find everything my dh has lost in the house! Thank heavens for small mercies.

SparkleRainbow · 22/03/2011 18:49

I am glad it isn't just me who panicked over ne message format

SallyScuttles · 22/03/2011 19:21

Only just had a chance to get on my laptop, because I've been out celebrating!!! I'm just naturally lumpy!!!

The ultrasound showed that it is just hardened breast tissue, probably due to finishing breastfeeding. I can't tell you how relieved I am. I have to just keep an eye on it and it ought to go away in time but should go back if it changes at all.

The really excellent news is that they are going to start annually screening me from 35 now (am 30 at the mo) whereas before they said they would screen from 40 so I feel like something really worthwhile has come from the week of worry.

Got to dash but I'll be back soon I can't thank you all enough for welcoming me and reassuring me this past week, its meant the world.

Figgyroll · 22/03/2011 19:30

Yayy!!! That's brilliant news Sally. No wonder you've been out celebrating. I can't tell you how relieved I am for you.

KurriKurri · 22/03/2011 19:32

Hooray and for Sally - brilliant news, so pleased for you - and great that they are going to monitor you. Have a big glass of and give those lovely girls a big hug

smee · 22/03/2011 19:39

for Sally. Utterly fantastic news. Am so pleased for you. Definitely have a very large glass of

MaryAnnSingleton · 22/03/2011 19:52

yay !!!! fabulous news sally x 10 !! really pleased for you x

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SparkleRainbow · 22/03/2011 20:40

Heh fab news Sally. I am so glad, really good news.

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sandripples · 22/03/2011 20:46

Sally - brilliant - I'm really pleased for you!!!

LGF - also pleased your scan showed no further spread - that's good news too.

Hoorray for all this good news.

Sorry can't keep up with all the beetroot talk but can confirm I've lost a stone now - yay! And Orlando is fab.

LittleGreenFr0g · 22/03/2011 20:48

That is fantastic news Sally. I am really pleased that all is ok. Definitely a few 's for you tonight to celebrate

LittleGreenFr0g · 22/03/2011 20:51

Figgy - yes it may very well be Docetaxol. It looks familiar :)

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