GCSEs 2018 (13) Untwisting our knickers, lucky for some!

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Thread 12 Link to the thread with our potted histories. Now the end is in sight.

Wonderwine I started crying too, today! One minute they are crying because you've gone out of sight for 10 seconds leaving them in their moses basket, and the next you are wondering what to do with all the sew in labels in the sewing kit?

Sostenueto you are amazing. I bet dgd can't believe you managed to pull off that surprise! Best wishes for your treatment

Sostenueto wishing you all the best for your treatment.

Congratulations to those who have finished exams.

And Eid Mubarak to anyone who is celebrating.

What’s wrong with me – I am not feeling a shred of sentimentality over dd leaving school!

“I've got the links for Tassomai, freesciencelessons, Mr Salles, Mr Bruff etc on there and just in case my memory fails me i've put in a warning about how the school's revision sessions are sometimes invaluable and sometimes a waste of precious time.So, I am now archiving every thing i've learned these last few months, before I get DS to fill the recycling bin with his old school jotters”.
^^ mmzz What can I say, I would expect no more and no less of you

Good luck with your treatment Sost – hope all goes well. Glad that dgd was excited and happy.

Your dd sounds like a character KittieInsane.

My dd is upstairs currently with 2 friends preparing for a post exam party (starts at 5pm – 30 mile drive away in rush hour traffic – thrilling). She is dying her hair with semi- permanent pink dye (no uniform rules at Sixth form college). I’ve tried to tell her it might affect her summer holiday employability but she is adamant she’s still doing it. As rebellions go its pretty safe territory – I am happy with pink hair and a nose stud in preference to what she could be getting up to

Sostenuto - after all these weeks (years) of thinking of others now is the time to concentrate on yourself. Good luck with the treatment.

Sostenueto I know your DD and DGD are going to have a brilliant time in London along with Teens DD and friends!
wishing you all the best for your treatment

I've only been on these threads occasionally, but feel quite emotional reading the posts today.

AQA physics was terrible according to dd.
She has been positive about all her papers bar this one.
Hope they lower the grade boundaries

Thanks for all best wishes treatment starts first thing tomorrow morning.

All the very best, Sostenuto. I too have enjoyed your brass band anecdotes (everyone except me here plays brass).

hmc, DD is so unlike me, personality-wise, that I suspect we were given her as a sort of celestial joke.

She sounds pretty happy about the physics, but I think that's from a baseline of 'expected to know none of it' rather than 'could actually answer all of it'.

Sostenueto So glad your DGD is so excited , they will have the most wonderful weekend.
Will be Thinking of you tomorrow, hope all goes well

to all who are grieving and going through such tough times.

🎉 we've finished!! DD over the moon, says Physics (AQA triple) was the worst one out of all of them, but she's forgotten all about it already!
On with the celebrations!
I'm off to try and borrow a gazebo for DD's party tomorrow as the forecast has changed to rain (and I don't want 50+ teenagers in my house!)

You'll know more about this than me, I suspect, Sostenueto, but if its chemo, or even if its radiotherapy, then it involves an awful lot of waiting around in hospitals, and as well as all the other things that it can be, the waiting about is often quite boring.
So, bring your phone and come on the thread. Hopefully there will be someone around to chat to, to help you pass the time.

Yes, best wishes for your treatment Sostenuto - time to concentrate on yourself now...

Somehow I find that I have ended up being exactly what I didn't want at this point when DSs are leaving school/ going to uni etc. I wanted to have a fulfilling job and social life and be busy etc, not a stay at home mum, as I knew that I would probably feel more bereft if I had time to overthink all these changes. Unfortunately family illness and years of caring for my DF means that I've all but given up work and I've had little time to keep up with all but my most local friends . In many ways it's been a blessing as I have been around to help DS2 (who has dylslexia) as otherwise I really think he would have crashed out in the last few months. As it is, I'm hopeful he will come out with a decentish clutch of GCSEs - certainly enough to set him up in whatever he wants to do next (not likely to be anything hugely academic, so A*s and As not necessary).

But I do feel like it's the end of an era and it's now time for me to work out want I want to do, and it's time for me to stop running around after the houseful of lazy men I find I have .

another person whose dd thought the AQA Physics Higher (Double Science) was really difficult. It was all equations mum and I gave up after a bit...was her verdict. Ds2 did the Edexcel Physics Higher and he said it was fine, the 6 marker was a bit ropey, otherwise, no comment. Dd is predicted a higher grade, so it will be interesting to see if the boards really are different (they are at different schools obviously)

Sostenueto very good luck with your treatment.

Mmzz I welled up when you mentioned the Moses basket! I thought of you today cos ds2 actually made a plan today after his Physics to meet some friends from school, literally the second time in his secondary school career he has done such a thing. Jurassic Park 2. Physics must have altered his molecules. Otherwise it is a football nirvana ahead, he talks of nothing else but Fantasy Football, cards and World Cup.

wonder I don't have your excuse of caring, although in some part I have had to balance ds2''s Asd with other aspects of life (ie I'm bloody tired!) but the same thing applies, I'm looking forward to having a bit of time to push forward with my dreams now that Gcses and one set of A levels are over.

However, the horror of dealing with ds1 and His A levels make me think the worst is yet to come!!! (not really, just that I'm not off the hook yet...)

Nettleskeins yes, its rough sometimes. DS1 is home with no offers for meeting up in the next 3 months. He only has me and DH for company.

Meantime, DS2 is going to a sleepover tonight with 4 of his (10?/ 20?) friends?

Yes yes and yes. I am reading your posts and they are all resonating with me and the thoughts that I am having. Strange that a set of strangers can be so akin more than the ones you see on a daily basis.

Mmzz your posts makes me smile (at the post exam debrief notes) and cry at the thought of the Moses basket.

Wonder I completely get what you are feeling about it's time for me and what I want. I too have been having these thoughts. It's almost like I am giving my everything to my DC right now as I feel like we are on the last bit where we can contribute to their life in a big way. And I am loving every minute of it even though it is hard sometimes. I know I am being a bit melodramatic but I am so conscious of an imminent future where the DC will be flying away and I and DH will regroup and create a new purpose. Such mixed emotions and right now just tears.

Well done to all of you and let the partying begin.

By the way physics edexcel igcse done - was straightforward. And now the last one Add Maths - this is one DD just wants to prove to herself that she can do it and nail it with an A.

1 more to go.

Sost echo what others have said. Time to look after yourself. Hope all goes well with your treatment x

Well its a good thing that almost all of our dc doing the AQA Physics Higher found it tough - grade boundaries will have to reflect this

I haven't heard from DS but he's giving up physics anyway, so hopefully it doesn't matter if it was hard.

Took the last day photo as DS is almost certainly leaving his current school and put on FB along with the first day photo in the same spot. He was so little in Y7! Not feeling particularly emotional as he's not with me this weekend.

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Wow so much to catch up on after a busy couple of days - can't name you all but huge best wishes to Sost, Alexander and always hiding and hadenough and anyone else with extra difficulties to deal with. And many congratulations to those who have finished - savour the moment.

DS going until next Thursday but its maths (his new love) with friends and spread out over several days from not so definitely feels like freedom. Not seen him yet as he's back in to band practise etc but any one worrying about aqa higher only needs to look at twitter to see it was almost universally bad. Still a shame to go out on a hard one though.

I do know what you mean though Sost - we couldn't wait for it to be over but will also sort of miss it !

I don't do twitter so that's useful to know. What was the exam board thinking of? They've clearly made it too difficult, why do that! Muppets!

I think the main problem was people didn't seem to get what some of the questions were asking - whereas chemistry on Wednesday wasn't necessarily easy but was much more straightforward.

That's a failure of the board - questions should be transparent. Sure they don't need to be (and shouldn't be) easy, and they can be quite exacting - but at a minimum they should be comprehensible. Ah well, never mind. Dd doesn't seem to give a stuff . She has just told me she is going to be a sought after premium tattooist with a huge reputation and a year long waiting list, so I guess she doesn't need Physics
(Please tell me she's winding me up)

Don't know why I bolded dd