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Heading towards 4th year or post grad/jobs

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Xenia · 02/07/2020 21:26

Continuation of the previous thread for those of us with children who are just finishing their 3rd year at university (so either "graduating" in 2020 or going into year 4 in Autumn 2020)..........

My twins' degree results will be out in late July. Good luck to everyone else waiting for finals results.

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Horsemad · 07/08/2020 21:52

Lol @SabrinaThwaite! Lots of surplus milk here whilst DS is away. 🙂

SabrinaThwaite · 07/08/2020 22:08

Horsemad it’s not just the milk - it’s the stupid amount of calories required to support his powerlifting (Hmm) which seems to involve about 5 full dinners a day at seemingly random but absolutely unchangeable times.

Horsemad · 07/08/2020 22:21

OMG @SabrinaThwaite, not sure I"d be able to put up with that as well! 😆😆😆

SabrinaThwaite · 07/08/2020 22:30

He is currently eating the dinner I made for 7pm, and I have also been grilled on my calculated (well estimated) calorific content. Apparently it can’t be right because the Sainsbury’s pizza in the fridge is different.

Horsemad · 07/08/2020 22:36

😆

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Xenia · 08/08/2020 08:56

Ah yes, well my son has weights in his room but he sorts out his own food including what "gruel" and is a product (I am not prepared to call it a food) called "Huel". However he and I meet in the middle on vegetables and we have grown quite a few this year.

Daughter and boyfriend are en route with a van to collect her furniture from my garage which will take two journeys today. Our 2 house guests are asleep but we have caused trouble for a different boy - my son let him park on our second drive as his father didn't want him getting the tube into London last night but no way could he really drive into London. I didn't know.

I noticed the boy's car on our second drive at about 9pm when I was about to block the drive to leave it clear for the furniture removal this morning and I think my son had to get that poor boy to tell his parents lat night that he had lied to them and his car was here and they came over to remove the car after I went to sleep although I had told my son he could instead ask the boy just to give us the keys and we could have moved it into our other drive without the boys' parents being disturbed (he lives near by). Anyway at least the drive is clear for the backing the van up to the garage. Perhaps moral of the story is don't lie to your parents; although my son thinks I was very cross with him - I wasn't - I just wanted that car moved last night rather than first thing today. He was talking to his twin by phone about it at 7am (very early for them) so perhaps I was but only slightly as daughter's timing and van hire is very precise today with moving sofas etc between three different places.

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Parker231 · 08/08/2020 09:15

DD’s plans have had to change now the travel corridor to Belgium has been withdrawn. She had planned to go over to Brussels and stay with my DSis and start flat hunting, visit my parents in Knokke and her cousin in Ghent. Looks like she’s be with us in London until her visa comes through and she can start work. DS is happy being out with friends and doing very little until he goes back to Warwick next term for his Masters.

MarchingFrogs · 08/08/2020 11:39

DH and DS1 left a while ago to move the latter to Bristol, where he will be doing his masters. Seeing the amount of stuff we had been babysitting for the past six weeks translated into 'ready to pack into car' form made me very glad that (although I would love to see the flat and spend the weekend in Bristtol) I volunteered DH for the task.I very much doubt everything would have fitted into my car and I loathe driving his. I have this weird preference for being able to check visually where potential (and actual) obstructions to my progress might be, rather than have to rely on something flashing or beeping at me and am positively allergic to the flashing and beeping itselfShock.

SMaCM · 08/08/2020 11:52

MarchingFrogs when DD moved into her 3rd year house, she decided she could move her stuff herself. Her car is about 1/3 the size of ours, so of course she ended up taking essentials, leaving us to bring the rest Something about special awareness maybe? I hated driving her up for first year and not being able to see out of the back window. DH has seen her masters house, but I haven't yet.

Xenia- DD has been made very clear that we won't cover for her friends lies. Her friends also know this.

Haffdonga · 08/08/2020 16:05

Hope the various moves go smoothly in the baking heat.

I'm laughing wryly at the specialist dietary requirements. DS announced last night with all seriousness that he'd realised that the reason he spent so much time in bed as a teenager was because we didn't buy him enough sweets and biscuits to eat after doing sports so he was permanently hypoglycemic. (He had pocket money to spend on as much sugar as he wanted but apparently that was at the wrong time Hmm )

DH was slightly hurt because he used to collect ds from his matches and stop at the shop for a treat with ds as part of their routine.

Clearly false memory syndrome or cruel parents Confused

bigTillyMint · 08/08/2020 17:02

Moving stories remind me of moving my stuff back from Sheff in a transit van with my then bf who drove it but couldn’t park it so I did that 😂

Sorry to hear about bike accidents - hope all recovering.

We are getting irate texts from DD about DS who is doing nothing at home - she is cooking and sorting the washing up ShockGrin

ErrolTheDragon · 08/08/2020 17:47

I think that boy squarely got himself into trouble, Xenia!

BestIsWest · 08/08/2020 18:24

That’s hilarious Haffdonga. How could you deprive the poor boy of the sugar he needed.

simbobs · 08/08/2020 18:52

I have been astonished at how much my DS seems to eat, and he is still skinny. I don't remember him having 5 meals a day before he went to uni. It makes me wonder whether I was undernourishing him. He has just gone abroad with gf for a few days, and we are crossing everything that he doesn't have to quarantine when he gets back, in which case he would most likely do his own risk assessment and conclude that it is unreasonable.
I have kind of got used to having the DC home and am not looking forward to them leaving again. The dog will be distraught!

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Xenia · 09/08/2020 07:48

My daughter showed me her recent bike accident marks yesterday. I have never seen such a raised bruise on a hip before but she thinks it will just go down of its own accord. All the places with skin broken are red but seem to be healing so I think she will be okay and she did to go her friend's house near by to wash it - brand new flat and she arrived saying - there is much blood. Her friend didn't mind. And the furniture move went fine - she left a few items but my garage is mostly clear now so that is good (until the next child fills it up...)

Yes, the poor boy who I hope does not read MN nor his parents, is in a difficult situation and I have only heard it second hand so might be wrong. May be he got someone to move the car that night who wasn't his parents. Anyway by yesterday morning it was moved and I got the gates opened and put a tree branch across to stop anyone else parking and the move went fine. My son's friend left but his other one is now staying until they go abroad next week. It is their covid 19 test today if they can book it (you can only book on the day) which they need to go on the short break in that particular country.

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SMaCM · 09/08/2020 08:11

"the reason he spent so much time in bed as a teenager was because we didn't buy him enough sweets and biscuits to eat after doing sports so he was permanently hypoglycemic."

🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣

hellsbells99 · 09/08/2020 09:51

Glad your DD is okay Xenia and she has done her house move.
My DDs know that the rule is that if a friend parks a car at ours, they have to leave the keys. One of DD1’s friend’s has left her car here at the moment as she is away with DD, and next door asked me to move it yesterday as they were having work done on the side of their house and didn’t want anything to accidentally fly off and hit the cars.
Simbibs both DDs are currently away and the boyfriend that was staying during lockdown has gone home - my shopping bill is so low this week!

SabrinaThwaite · 09/08/2020 12:24

DS used to swim at a high level so plenty of early mornings) - fortunately early on I clicked on to chocolate milk being the perfect recovery nutrition, otherwise it would have been constant demands for bacon rolls and yumyums.

On moving house - I went back to uni for a Masters after working for a couple of years, and could fit all of my belongings into a Peugeot 205. With hindsight, I obviously didn’t own much!

bigTillyMint · 09/08/2020 19:56

Lol the plus points of living in inner London - no driveways for anyone to park on Grin

Eve · 10/08/2020 09:53

lovely to read the results and see that they are having some sort of summer fun even if they cant travel or socialise a lot. DS1 is doing a lot of climbing, running and seeing friends in small groups.

... I have however turned into a jibbering wreck - DS2 is A level results on Thurs and reading the headlines over the weekend about the numbers being downgraded is not helping. He needs AAB - and then he will be at same uni as DS1!

SMaCM · 10/08/2020 11:27

Good luck with the A level results Eve (and anyone else waiting for results). DD has finished all exams and coursework and is on the home stretch with her dissertation. A huge sigh of relief will be felt in this house when it's done.

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Xenia · 10/08/2020 11:49

I agree on leaving cars. When my son left his at someone's I said make sure the keys are inside the house so the parents can move it if needs be. We do have a spare second driveway by the second garage which is just about never used other than by my neighbour whom I let park there almost every day so when the twins' friends come it is not quite the same as blocking my house. It was just my daughter's move was that morning.

Good luck for those with children waiting for A level results. My son's covid 19 test already came in (taken yesterday afternoon) - he and his friend who is here and is going abroad with him are both negative (as we thought).

Eve, it was certainly easier that my twins were at the same university in terms of visiting them and even having a sibling there you can turn to for help can be useful. September will be the first time they have studied at differentt places (albeit they will be taking the same course from the same institution - law thing)

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Carriemac · 10/08/2020 21:32

How did you arrange the tests Xenia?

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Xenia · 11/08/2020 14:49

I am not sure as they did it themselves but it was via the NHS and free so probably a websearch would get you to it. My son ticked the category called "other" for the reason for the est (as no symptoms).

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Haffdonga · 13/08/2020 20:43

Thinking of all A level receivers today. The whole way the results have been calculated and managed sound like an absolute fiasco of muddled thinking, unfair outcomes and weird statistical anomalies.

I hope your ds2 is one of the relieved ones @Eve.