Starting lectures at uni 2017

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The other thread filled up really quickly, with exciting talk of laundry, mattress toppers and lost property.

Here's where the rest of them settle in, get through freshers and the work gets serious.

That's good news simbob.

Haff yes, DD sent me an email telling me how she'd tidied and dusted her room.

I did think of saying she could exercise her new-found talent on her bedroom at home, which still looks like a tornado swept through it because I haven't yet mustered the willpower to tackle it. Only I will have to now to find the stuff she wants. Eeek.

Snap chat of DS’s dinner!!

Looks lovely rights

Been a bit hectic here. DS doing fine random phone calls about food are my mainstay of conversation..yesterday's was "mum...while chicken in the oven about 1hr 20?... don't want to Jill myself !?" Turned out he was doing himself and roast dinner and planning on picking at the chicken on Wednesday as he had lectures 9 till 7 so no time for proper food!!
And Tuesday they had Gok Wan doing some freshers gig...apparently he was rubbish and he's piled the pounds on!! Teenage lads confuse and amaze me.
He's talking about coming home in a few weeks as they have a reading week...oops Best Buy a bed for the spare room then..

Loving all this cooking and tidying that's going on.

DD likes her housemates. I don't think she's found a soulmate on her course yet, or really settled into it. She has asked if she can write in her books though. We weighed up the pros and cons of selling them next year, against passing her exams by finding a study method that works for her.

DS has joined the Tidy Club; he cleaned his bathroom throughly after the first week and changed the bedclothes, and is going to hoover the bedroom later this week! Perhaps it's because the rooms are their own little space, rather than a room in our houses, that they feel a bit more pride of ownership? I rather doubt the bathroom-cleaning will continue in the holidays . . . .

He's not doing much cooking though in spite of being a perfectly proficient cook. He seems to be living off pasta, fish fingers and wraps.

DH has put dust covers over DD's clean bedroom

Have heard nothing from DS for two days so am assuming that's means all is well. I suspect mine is eating similar fare to yours Morvah - fish fingers and pasta IN wraps if I know him!

DD is hoping to switch some optional units so isnt going to a seminar today - hope the switch works!

bigTillyMint, DS switched course (to a very similar one) and it has caused untold problems at admissions, and subsequently finance. (Still no loan.)

He's missed lectures he's not been told about, has no timetable, his personal tutor is on leave (helpful) and he's currently been in admissions since 9am pleading with them to update and ratify his enrolment so he's officially on a bloody degree course.

I am assuming that no other university can be as byzantine as this one, so I expect your DD will be fine. Keep an eye out, though. Not appearing on module registers e.g.

Hope any switches can be sorted out soon, especially for your DS Liney

2-hour phone call from ds last night. Left me unable to sleep because he sounded very positive but I could detect a hint of stiff upper lip .

I don't think he's found any like-minded souls yet, but he's joined practically every society. He says his neighbours all turn in at about 10pm and there has been zero wild freshering!

Liney I hope that's sorted soon.

Tilly what optional units is your DD doing?

Impressed at all the cleaning going on . Not anticipating that my DS will have done any. When he went away last time, we didn't visit him until he had been gone for 8 weeks. He tidied his room just before we arrived and had 3 black bags of rubbish including take-away remnants . He tells me he's had hardly any take-aways so far this time and seems to be spending more time with flat mates so I'm hoping any food will have been consumed in the communal kitchen/sitting area rather than in his bedroom.

I sent him with a new one of those Toilet Duck 'brushes' for cleaning the toilet in his en-suite this time. I'm hoping that he has actually got it out of the box and used it!

Just off phone to DS. Admissions didn't process the paperwork.

Another text from dd3. She likes short texts.

'University is brilliant!!!!'

Sorry to hear about your ds's paperwork nightmare Liney

DS says that in alternative timeline he didn't accept the offer from Reading but went to Cardiff and we are all a lot happier and much less broke.

DD rang from her university (final year) and it's going well so far. They have a big thing on soon in London which is very exciting for her. She's very talented and wants to be a writer / director, so I need to count my blessings really

Its not a whole course - just swapping a couple of Sociology lectures (doesnt rate a particular lecturer) for a couple of Social Psychology AFAIK. So hope it goes through.
She emailed the tutor to say she was sick then threw up! Another flatmate also sick so maybe a bug?

Btm, I've seen posts about the winter vomiting virus cropping up on my fb feed. Doing the rounds already I'm afraid.

DD is doing an optional unit - paganism in Roman times. I hope that your DD gets the swap she wants.

Thanks - she says the Psychology dept have said theres spaces so 🤞

Paganism in Roman Times sounds quite niche

dingit hooray, a vomiting bug!

Ds messaged the other day that he now knows how I feel when I say I can’t think what to cook for dinner. Choices are now more limited for him as his hob went wrong yesterday and has been declared unusable for the foreseeable.

He also says he’s not the scuzziest housemate by a long way as someone left a small puddle of wee on the floor. The joys of shared bathrooms. I think this is going to be such an eye opener for him, this first term. It’s not that he doesn’t know about tidiness etc. it’s more appreciating the tedium of it over the weeks.

PS Does anyone else feel nostalgic for half past 4 (or whenever) that they are not coming home to drop school bags, coats and shoes all around the house?

Some of us still experience that dubious pleasure with other DC! However, I have noticed the shopping bill is considerably cheaper, the washing much less, the house tidier, and I'm expecting a rebate on the water bill.

Same here behindthedoor!