2nd year uni (starting 2018)

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The old thread seems to have filled up!

Is it just me or has this term come and gone in the blink of an eye?
I am going to collect ds on Monday and can't wait to spend some time with him.
He has had a busy but good term and has managed to secure a placement for next year.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 😀

It's dragging here - mine doesn't come home until the 20th .
But yes, it does also seem to go fast - how are they even in their second year already?

Mine had a three week placement before the start of term, no reading week and still has 9 days to go. She says they are all tired and grumpy. Though a whole series of social events this week won't have helped.

The good news is that she has found a flat. More expensive than her currrent £90pw, but apparently a lot nicer. It was a lot easier this year, not least because the landlord apparently likes medics so asked the current group to put the word out. And now the issue of where to store her stuff for four days between the end of one tenancy and the start of the next. DS's London bedroom ended up being summer storage for a number of overseas students.

I wonder if there is a Bristol resident lurker who wants to auction off garage space?!

My son took a foreign student's possessions into his room for the summer - they were there when he moved in his stuff in September athough the other boy collected them fairly soon after. My son's twin however wanted to bring everything home as he had taken a lot of things he never used and just wanted to do a complete sort out at home over the summer. I bet there are a lot of people who have an empty room people can store things in. I hope the needmore daughter finds somewhere to store. At leat the accommodation is sorted out.

My sons found it much easier this year. I think that was mostly because they now know about finding and renting flats which the year before they had no experience of.
Mine should be home around 21st I think - depends on a talk one of them is giving and what date that is on so it may be the 20th.

I wonder if there is a Bristol resident lurker who wants to auction off garage space?!

I'd offer to have it in our garage but I can't seem to get in the door right now....only in England would you have a garage full of junk and leave the car on the drive

DS due home on Saturday...or maybe Sunday, who knows? He has a couple of essays due next week so he may stay on to finish them. I have hinted that in terms of catering, it might at least be helpful to know when he will appear

NMS, DD stored her stuff in a big yellow storage place which was fine, but was a bit of a palarva for her moving it by uber!

There are various companies which collect / store / deliver stuff, but it does tend to have to be boxed up in the company's pwn boxes.

Hahaha brizzledrizzle, same here! 😆

Brizzle, surely a business opportunity. Clear out your garage then rent space to students for the single week between the ending of one lease and the starting of another. It might not make a fortune, but a contribution to a summer holiday?

After all the talk, earlier, of people's DCs having to work around booked-up coaches and trains, DS is on the coach right now from the closest university (3.5hr drive away) and he has messaged me to say that he's the only passenger!!?

I can't see a commercial bus service on that route for much longer...

About 2 years ago for the first time in ages when my son bought his house I cleared out my single garage almost completely and sent round pictures of it so clean and empty.... within about 4 weeks one of my children needed it to store their landlord's furniture - complicated story but their flats are let out and they are renting for the extra space for now whilst letting out what they own and their landlord wouldn't take back his furniture from the place they are renting so it's been here. I joke that whenever I empy anywhere someone fills it up again.... now any takers for my sons' full drum kit... I notice that my older son didn't take that to his house. I am sure eventually one of them will want it or sell it however. It is not a big problem. I would like to get rid of the tabletennis table which i have to move about 6 times every day to get at some of my archived files and is probably used about once every 5 years!

Mountain, glad your child got such an easy coach ride. My boys are back next week which is just as well as I am so busy with work. Our tree is now up which is nice (I always wait until my (December) birthday before putting it up.

I'm at the station waiting for DS (due in in 20mins! 😀) and it is HEAVING with returning students being met by parents! 😁

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Xenia _ i always enjoy reading your posts. We are waiting fro dd to return tomorrow - tonight she is at a ball 8pm -8am ! but is planning to get the train home in the evening in time for dh's birthday on Sunday. We always put our tree up on his birthday weekend - hopefully she won't be snowed in !

Thanks. One of my daughters sent really lovely flowers but the delivery man must have come after dark and chosen to leave them outside the front door (I was certainly in and would have answered the bell) so I only found them when she checked I had had them just before bed. one of the nicest bunches I have had. From a company called bloom and wild. May be they will last until our Christmas meal.

I hope readlot's daughter enjoys the ball. Another family with a birthday tree tradition like ours. I keep my birthday cards out (and the Christmas ones in my office for now) and then in a few days move over to Christmas mode.

Now there's an idea, possibly as I have no idea what is in there.

Don't talk to me about delivery men... so, the laptop with the spec DH and DD decided made sense was only available direct from Dell. Their delivery time was 2-3 weeks, and then they gave us a specific day when it would be delivered by DHL. Wednesday of the week before last, lovely day we'd planned a nice long walk but we had to stay in. DH was following the tracking, at about 4pm it was saying that it would still be delivered that day... and then the status changed to say that it had been delivered at about 2pm, signed for by 'Paul' and 'left in a safe place'. No, DH isn't called Paul and neither are any of or neighbours, we'd been waiting in, had checked the doorbell was working.... no way would we have missed a delivery.

DHL have been completely useless at working out where the heck the laptop is.... the driver has been 'off sick' from the day after that onwards. Dell helpfully said they'd give us a refund if we returned the laptop. so, we've had to report it to the police, we're due to have a visit this evening.

Hours of wasted time, no Xmas present.

Errol that's rubbish. I once had a delivery that said I wasn't in. I was home all day and they never came. It was only a small item though, so they just sent another one (after I offered to forward them my cctv images).

Oh no Errol, hope it is resolved soon for you.

I am off again to the station this evening - DS helpfully fell asleep & missed his train last night! 😮
Add in the broken phone & it was a very tense time until his lovely halls night porter went & checked on him & woke him up!

I can't tell you how it felt to be waiting on the platform and him not getting off that train. The logical part of me knew what had probably happened but there was a small part wondering what was going on.

Better a missing laptop than a no-show DC! That must have been horrible, horsemad

I'm up early to pick DD up from Bath. I can't wait to see her. I hope she's awake to let me in - she has form for being asleep at the wrong time too.

Oh Errol. How infuriating. It sounds very suspicious that the delivery guy has since gone AWOL.

We're expecting ds home tomorrow at some point after a nother night out tonight. His older brother is home until Tuesday before leaving the country to visit his girlfriend for Christmas, so I'll have the family in one place for approximately 24 hours and will attempt to cram as much family Christmas jollity into Monday evening after work as I can.

Meanwhile dh and I have had a minor row about ds1's Christmas present. As ds1's travelling and completely broke he asked us for money for Christmas. Fine. We agreed. Except unbeknownst to me, dh then decided to be ultra generous and spontaneously gave him £200 yesterday for 'extras' without mentioning Xmas. So DH, tell me please oh dearest one, is the money you gave ds yesterday his xmas present? (If not then how much do we give him on top for Xmas and match what we give ds2? If it was supposed to be his xmas present then perhaps you should have bloody mentioned it to him.) Grrrrr. It's not just me being unreasonable menopausally angry is it?

Infuriating Errol - I had a similar experience recently when I tracked a parcel to find it had been signed for - I assumed by dh as I knew he was home.
However turns out parcel was left in a safe place and a card put through the door to say so - and signature which I could see on the tracking was not dh's signature despite being his surname !

dd's train has effectively been cancelled - will start at Perth instead of Glasgow so she is heading for one at 21.30 instead and we will collect her at midnight - assuming we haven't been blown away by then as it is vvvv windy here !