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.

I'm sure flu camp would be fine, but of course there are always risks, and I know what I would advise my DS! Hopefully he won't be eligible for some reason!

Is there such a thing as a reliably 'mild dose of flu' - if it's a real flu ie influenza?

DD said she had 'freshers flu' but given that she was up to trying touch rugby yesterday and rowing today I suspect it is actually just a mild cold with a touch of hyperbole.

Drug trials you say?
I remember a fellow halls stident doing these in the late 80s.

He tested a drug (possibly Viagra or similar) chap was left with a rather uncomfortable "hard" side effect for 7 days!!!!

Refused to walk to the refectory in that condition and had to be brought food on trays by the warden!!!!

Dd mentioned the flu camp thing, I doubt she'd have done it but she's had the flu vaccine so is ineligible. I hope none of the MN offspring do it.

Good! Mine has had the flu vaccine so she will not be eligible.

"A reliable dose of mild flu" would be one that will keep him from attending his lectures and seminars for at least a week. Has he worked out how much he is paying for those lectures and seminars? And does he expect his tutors to work double to fill him in on what he has missed? (I expect he does) Will he blame the teaching and the course when he suddenly finds it harder to catch up and get the grade he had hoped for? (I expect he will)

Freshers flu indeed! Wait till these youngsters get real flu. I had that a couple of times in my life and both times I was ill for about six weeks - the first five days being bed-ridden with shivers, aches, sweats, hallucinations... the wobbly walk to the loo etc etc.

There used to be the Common Cold research place on Salisbury Plain. You got a free holiday in return for being exposed to cold germs. I think most people didn't get a cold at all but a whale of a time could be had and even some marriages resulted!

It closed down some time ago as after years of research no one could discover why some people got colds out of nowhere and others didn't catch one even when germs were squirted up their nose.

So lovely to hear from DS yesterday although he sounded very tired and voice was gravelly from lack of sleep and over indulgence but as he said Fresher's is over now and the real work begins.
Housemates sound like a lovely bunch and looking out for each other Hurrah!
I'm a bit worried about him eating properly but hoping as term settles into a rhythm so will he re. shopping and cooking.
Thankfully he hadn't said anything about Fresher's flu or flu camp. I might have been interested in something like that in my day - back in the dark ages - but now I'd run a mile in the opposite direction, well, walk hurriedly.
Hope this week proves a good one for all.

DD rang at 8pm last night to ask whether a white tee shirt with black sleeves went in the wash with whites or darks.

They be honest I was flummoxed myself . I think it might get washed in its own usually .

The washing of black and white garments depends on an assessment of whether it is more likely to run or to pick up colour, surely?

DD has freshers flu. She was a bit smug last week when all her flatmates had it and she felt fine. She went down with it on Thursday and spent a lot of the weekend curled up on the sofa under a duvet.

I think the washing experts say if it's got white in it, it should be colourfast and can go in with the whites. I choose, depending on the garment and how many times it's been washed.

I feel much better after seeing DD yesterday and meeting some of her house mates.

When washing for one person, I doubt they will be able to collect enough garments to separate out whites - I've told dd to just bung everything in together UNLESS she buys herself anything new that is red, which would undoubtably leak. Otherwise stuff she needs each week (like sports team kit) wouldn't get washed in time for the next game.

New dark indigo or black denim probably should be brought home washed with darkish things only.

True

BackforGood I agree, and one of the things I would mention on a thread for next year's university starters would be to get undersheets in a dark colour. DS texted this weekend about just that, his undersheet is the only white thing he's got, but apparently the machines warn against a light load and anyway he didn't want to pay just to wash one sheet! I told him to bung it in with the dark stuff and if it goes a funny colour it really doesn't matter. It doesn't show under the pillows and duvet, and being a small double size is unlikely ever to be used at home.

I'm smiling at you washing experts .

I don't do much in this house, I'll admit.

DD has all dark clothes, problem solved. Thankfully one problem they are not likely to have is what to do when a new bright pink hoodie gets washed with new school shirts.....

Dd splashed out £1.50 on colour catchers only to find they are not allowed. On her first wash the machine wiped her card (£5) before she could use the drier. She then added more money and swiped her card, only to be elbowed out of the way by a lad who loaded his stuff in her drier

dingit may his colours always run and his clothes always shrink. I hope your DD turned the dial to the shrink setting extra hot option.

Big bully, Dingit.
Most of DD's clothes are black, so there is no doubt that the white sheet will be an undefined colour soon. As long as it is clean I don't think it really matters. I admit that I hadn't thought of colour catchers, though. But why would they not be allowed? And who polices the contents of your washing machine?

Visited my DD on Saturday , was lovely , went for a walk round campus , had a drink in the student union then into town to buy a bath towel and for dinner , loved hearing all of her stories so far , she's doing shared white washes with one of the boys , is getting on with all her fellow house mates on their floor of the halls . Laughs at how incapable some of the boys are at functioning with out their mums . One just shouts help me which she finds histerical . They help him do all his chores as he gets so overwhelmed . Eight of them walked her to the gym to join as she kept threatening to so they had to witness it when she finally did . She loves it and it's helping me adjust knowing that 😀

I've told mine never to buy white. I have never done a white's wash voluntarily in my life and don't buy white but now they have to deal with their own washing all this fussing at home about wanting me to wash clothes separately has ceased and it's down to them, thankfully. I think they are trying to do one wash each a week and one uses the driers and the other doesn't.