GCSEs 2018 (16) - The Final Countdown

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Best wishes for a calm week eaglefly and for the results you want. Fairly chill here as DS is laid back and no major requirements for the next steps (I just want him to get the results he deserves and if he doesn’t I will be a bit concerned as to whether he should take on a levels) but I remember counting off the days with DD2 and it seeming like a lifetime.

Hi all, i’ve Jumped over from the A-level thread to join you here. One down and one to go!

stick hope all is ok.
Personally if it were my MIL I'd rather the text said "MIL in bits, door in hospital"

Just on train after spending day in London at my mums flat doing all the laundry from the latest visitors (she lends it to friends when she's not there). DS1 staying on his own for a couple of nights, getting his first taste of independence but in a safe place. Since he doesn't like alcohol and is a bit scared of females, I think he'll be quite ok Fast foreword a couple of years and it'll be a hot-bed of sin I expect!!

She fell behind the door so they had to smash through it to get in. Only had 5 falls this week that we know about, so this one gives us something to talk about! I must admit that I'm waiting with baited breath to see if they twig that their DGD is one of those getting exam results when It's all over the news on Thursday. Feel free to guzzle the I so badly need on my behalf.

I'll take one for the team and drink gin for you stick

Terf Yes, oh yes, I'm so with you on that sometimes!

& happy to share out the rations too.

Stickerrocks to go with the . MiL has a series of falls in bathroom but luckily was never actually trapped, although there were a few paramedic visits. Luckily she seems to have got better recently but it is a worry.

The joys of elderly parents ... DD's DF's mother has dementia and in the last few weeks has taken to phoning me ...the first occasion was when DD and DF were on a cruise (the call was out of the blue she has not called me in 4 years). I've now taken to screening calls but wish I could redirect to DF.

Spoke to DD yesterday no street sleeping arranged yet (PHEW), looks like they spent most of last weeks NCS partying and making pancakes at some deadly hour of the morning before a mentor checked and escorted them all to their rooms. I think DD is getting a taste for Independence..she's at a friends tonight although apparently needs to come back to mine tomorrow for some clean clothes!

Hello petal

There must be something about MILs: I'm visiting MIL at the moment. No dramas but I'm really, really bored! We had the cream tea story again today - approx the 80th time I've heard it. Devon / Cornwall one jam and cream, the other cream and jam.
Anyway it filled 20 mins whilst we all told each other that one likes it one way and the other county likes it the other way. Then the "which are you?" Poll.
That was one of today's highlights.

The worst of it was that it was DH who re-told the cream tea story. MIL chuckled with appreciation like she always does but maybe she's as bored hearing it as I am?? And all the other things we talk about. ("Nights are beginning to draw in")
When I met him DH used to say interesting things.

Now I'm feeling depressed.

I think being with our parents makes us regress. My mum makes me feel like a reactionary teenager and I can feel how my behaviour disintegrates but can't do anything about it!
Your MIL probably forgets that her golden boy has ever told the same tale about jam and cream

You made me smile mmmz. I’m starting to worry that DH is turning into his parents - I wouldn’t mind but he s spent the last 30 years complaining about them and now he s started to do exactly those thing he s been moaning about !!!!

But is she in one of the counties to know if she's doing it right (waving at you from Cornwall)?

My DB & I are bickering like teenagers about which of us gets to drive to the nearest pub later. My usual solution these days is to take my reusable coffee cup in with me and get a double g&t loaded into it with a stack of ice for when I get in.

And I'm the woman who her golden boy is too good for but who might have shown my lack of appreciation of my exceptional good luck by saying "Next we will be debating whether it's milk first or milk last in tea." I don't think I said that, hope I didn't, but I was definitely thinking it!

Are you me stick??! I quite often have a g&t in my travel cup! Cricket matches, cinema, train journeys, etc etc

Oh yes mmmz I've never been good enough for DH. In fact, his mum told him to "find a nice Polish girl in a coffee shop, she'll be grateful to have you"

Good idea, Sticker. I saw a bottle of wine chilling earlier. Will go get a glass now. It will help the evening pass - we are going to watch a non-violent, no-sex, no-nudity "classic" British film tonight. Think Rank studios circa 1960.
It will be hard to top Disneys Snow White which we watched last night though. (I fell asleep

I'm a Polish girl and quite often in a coffee shop but think I might say no thank you to the offer, given the MIL :)

Silly moo.

mmmz that does not sound like a holiday! Head for the wine!

I think we're building up to Dad's Army here.

My DB can't escape to the pub with me until his youngest (SN teenager) is settled, so roll on 9.30. The good thing about a travel cup 8s that they can't see how much is in there.

goodbye the worst of it is that MIL meant a Polish girl working there... she must be so conflicted - on the one hand wanting rid of foreigners and on the other wanting them to stay to do the jobs no one else wants 😡 She's a racist, I'm also half-foreign. What was I thinking?!

Ooh I’d never thought of doing that - won’t let in to DD though, she might get ideas for her travel cup/bottle she uses for coffee and water.

I always feel a bit sorry for DD when she is at DF's house (he is 60), he always has Countryfile and Songs of Praise on....

Yes I got that TerfTerf :) You must have the patience of a saint. I'm actually only half a Pole so same amount of foreign as you and sound super English despite the other half of me being a Scot (not sure if that's foreign for your MIL), so I'd definitely conflict your MIL and would hugely enjoy doing so :).