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.

Bimkom very interesting, thank you.

No trees after Brexit made me think Nettleskeins.

Just picked DS up and he looks totally washed out. Had a good afternoon but physics was bad - a mix of being too relaxed the last couple of days, some very strange questions he didn’t get but then also some things he should have known and realised when friends mentioned it after the exam he should have known. Frustrating as I know some of them are things we ve talked about. And physics is an a level subject and probably his least secure if the three and the science he s done most work on. Not a major issue in the overall scheme of things just frustrating.

Mmzz DS has never seen friends in the holidays and we ve always done family things for b days - if you do a family trip at least he can say to people what he did. And fun family times will give him a good base to move to a new school from

My name is hmc and I watch Love Island [shame emoticon]

I started watching it after posting on WhatsApp (to a group of friends) about the Handmaid's Tale. Several friends agreed that the Handmaid's Tale was compulsive viewing, but another friend (friend A) said she hadn't seen that yet but was currently enjoying Love Island. A different friend (friend B) was rather forthright (and a bit too scathing I thought) of friend A's viewing habits - lots of scandalised "how can you watch that crap". In the interests of being open minded I thought I should watch Love Island to see what all the fuss was about and somehow I got sucked in. I like to dress it up as purely an anthropological interest...

Oratory - I do know what you mean. Its sad when they have worked at it and applied themselves but it still hasn't gone as it should

Nettle yes of course addictive. 'Addicting' what was I thinking. Oh god bring on the wine.

hmc to plumb even further depths I'm going to fess up to Made in Chelsea.

I may have watched that once or twice goodbye

Does anyone else on here feel a sense of loss?
Wanted it all over but now it is, there's a hole where stress used to live?

It's been 2 days here now, and DD has been at her dads since then but I am still reading this thread.

Is it only me?????

@mmzz - I could share details of The Apprentice filming but I'd get into massive trouble. Only thing I can say is that it was a food task

While we're on the subject of guilty pleasures I have to confess that DD and I do love Coach Trip.

I don't know Cblue - wouldn't say I am missing it but it does feel like an anti-climax. Will report back in a day or two

Mmzz I have some DC who will do anything to avoid inviting people to a party. “Please can we just go out as a family?” One even says, “Can we just have a takeaway?”

Clubs can be good. I know a group of quirky friends that met at a computing club when they were 16, 17 and 17. They don’t hang out apart from online but they do occasionally do things like go to cinema, steampunk and Comic-Con.

It’s hard to find your tribe but I think it gets easier as you get older because you get to meet more people but also because the kids start to feel more confident about being themselves and allowing/celebrating nonconformity in others.

I have spent years with one DC putting a brake on their partying and then the whole of the time in 6th form persuading another to go to gatherings. “Please mum. I really don’t want to sleepover. Please come and get me at 10.” I then find myself persuading them to stay out later!

we don't watch TV except series (like Handmaid's Tale) and stuff like Civilizations, Attenborough and bbc young musician and young dancer. World Cup too! We are very very picky about what we watch

mmzz I have a good feeling about your DS sixth form. He will flourish and make friends!

Can you all please feel suitably sorry for my DS who, grumblingly announced that ha still has three more exams to go next week, unlike most of his friends and his girlfriend who have finished.He is laying on the self pity pretty thickly, but having yet another weekend of revision is hard going (for all of us!)

Justice
For your DS and you

Yes justice three more here too

Is my dd the only one still doing exams ? All of social media today seems to be full of people celebrating having finished.
She's got 5 more next week

Peggy

Many thanks...much needed.

BackforGood

Even more sympathies in your direction. Doe she finish Thursday?

Kick Bishop

Sorry missed you out in the distributing sympathy process

DS2 is currently creating a quiz to test himself on some of the vocabulary needed for the first year of Latin A-level.

He is not actually planning to do Latin A-level.

Possibly his time might be better spent revising for Level 2 Further Maths (exams next week).

justicewomen - yes, her last on is Thursday.
Friday is 'getting ready for Prom' day

Been working the last couple of days so have had a lot to catch up on. Many and to all with worries and health problems.

Ds technically not finished until next Thursday but in his head he is finished! He is looking forward to some more maths papers. He's been out and come home a bit tiddly.....he literally only really started socialising in the last couple of months. I'm not sure I want him to now! Hope he had a sore head tomorrow

Back for Good

DS's Prom is on Thursday - so after exam, he is straight to friend's house for long, long session of computer game related male bonding; and five minutes throwing his suit on and remembering that his black shoes are filthy but not bothering to rectify them