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My turn......

I still need to do my homework for tomorrow, but am feeling a bit happier about the course now (this may all end tomorrow, and I may be back to being a screechy pastry throwing madwoman again). Hopefully I will sleep tonight and not wake up at 0300 again.

Crem, would physio or an osteopath or chiropractor help with your back?

You poor thing Auriga. I expect I should know if I'd been paying attention but what exactly have you done to your poor leg? Hope you're better soon.

How very high tech and modern to be at your "thing" by phone! I was presenting yesterday which was rather nerve wracking but it went perfectly well. Phew! We are lucky enough to have Margot Waddell teaching us this term. She is FAB.

Note to everyone else - am talking about a course I do of a Tuesday evening...

There is either a massive firework display (that we can't see) near us, or a very long shoot out going on somewhere close by...

I think white bras are acceptable under white clothes, as it makes it plain that the odd bumps and back hamsters are because of said bra, rather than a deformity. But nude v useful for instances when bra show-through is not ideal. I think I have two nudes, one white, one black and one shocking pink. That fit. The rest are all sorts.

I'm feeling pathetically validated. On Tube Strike Day, when I had my PGCE interview, the local parents facebook page was awash with threads about the best way to travel in, etc. I was on nearly all of them, wailing and renting my vestments about being stuck on a bus, ruining the rest of my life, etc. So I thought I'd just tell them that it all worked out in the end. So far, I have more than 130 'likes'. Bizarre.

Heard that too Mrs S. I thought it was thunder DH said not.

I had a look out of the window - nothing coming from the London Eye, so must be more up your end, Windy? Maybe Clapham?

Herbs, everyone loves a feel good story

I was fast asleep just after 10 so no idea if there were fireworks our way.

Cremo and Auriga, here's hoping you wake up feeling renewed and pain-less. Or at least getting better.

Good Luck to your DD today (and any others) Stropps. DD and I were chatting last night and had worked out that she would have 19 exams next summer (I think it must be more) and that she thought she could cope with that However, she had had a run-in with a teacher...

Dh is up and having breakfast: he wants to make sure that he won't be shut out of the course as the doors are locked at eight. I think you're quite right about the content, Stropps, although he liked the idea of pressing buttons on a gun type thingy.

Yesterday's beautiful weather has disappeared and it's throwing it down. I am off to have my highlights done later.

I am sorry that you are still being pressurised about the move to the US, Rudy. Difficult decision and both you and DH have to be happy with it.

Sorry to hear about DD, BTM. Nineteen exams? What is the point of that? There is so much pressure on the DC these days.

NU, having dropped two and she will have done two this year, she will be taking 11 GCSEs next year, so I think 19 exams is a conservative estimate! Yes way too much pressure.

BTM, I think it may be more - dd did 10 GCSEs, five modules early cos you could then, and had about 24 papers in yr 11. But, for an anxious soul it actually spread the worry thinly rather than intensified it - none of the papers are long and doing exams just became a way of life. That isn't true for everyone of course, but fingers crossed it will be for your dd and my and addle's ds next year!

Here complaints have been made about the Italian oral examiner who apparently did much eye rolling and exaggerated sighing if the candidate wasn't up to par. This is so typical in France and as usual nothing will be done. DD1 said thank god she did German.

That should have been dss. We have one each. QQ, do you also have a year 10?

Poured down last night here...

I am still :( and knackered.

Good luck exam people.... roll on Friday - I need a rest (refuses to think about the fact she has guests on Saturday...)

Why do they need to do so many GCSEs? Is it really necessary, all of these subjects? I did 11 O levels, which included three languages and three humanities - looking back, it seemed a bit pointless doing history and geography and economics. Although I still know what an Oxbow lake is. Wouldn't eight subjects be more than enough? Eng lang, Eng lit, maths, 2 sciences (3 if you're that way inclined), a language, a humanities subject and an arty one.

MrsS, oxbow lakes - why was it so crucial that all our generation knew what they were? Never mind Stalin, Homer, DNA. I agree (but mine do 9/10 so I don't know how it works when you do more).

Mrs S - how can you have O level geog and now know what an ox-bow lake is[wink?

I agree with you about the exams, although history, well taught can be brilliant - DD2 has a sort of "Dead Poets" history teacher. I, on the other hand, had history courses consisting of dictated facts and I still don't see that it was necessary for me to learn about the Corn Laws.

x post with Lalsy who obviously knows an oxbow lake when she sees one.

We did seven (or eight if you did the two English courses), so Eng Lit and Lang, Maths, Chemistry, Geog (Ox-Bow lake included), History, German, Economics.......

Our walk in the park last night actually involved a walk round an oxbow lake (it was excavated to provide flood defences on local river).

My DC back when, had to do 9 GCSEs; I really can't see the point in more. Then 3 A Levels plus General Studies.

I think I did 10. Geography was my favourite by far - ox-bow lakes, hanging valleys, drumlins, terminal moraine, marvellous stuff. Helped by a hot teacher, whose arse used to jiggle as he wrote on the blackboard.

Facebook 'likes' up to 150.

I too feel utterly exhausted. Not sleepy, just totally lacking in energy. I'm supposed to be doing some kind of exercise DVD this morning, but can barely lift the remote control, let alone a dumbell.

I think DS is taking 9 except they did French last year so doing some diploma instead....Delph, I think it's called (delf?). It's all pressure however many they take. There's no escaping exam pressure really is there? Good luck to all who are sitting gcse English lit today and other exams.
And now to the important stuff ;-) wtf do I wear to the Chelsea flower show today. The weathers going to be pants and corporate bloody dining suite says ' smart casual'. Aaargh

Ps I failed geography...

I did 9 - Eng lang + lit, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, French, History, Geography, DS(cookery). It was all taught in a boring, copy from the board type way apart from French

To all of you feeling knocked out - take it easy. I suspect there is (isn't there always?) a Bug Going Around. I finally feel better and indeed conducted a Ladyjog this morning - it's almost a relief to realise I was in fact unwell, not just succumbing to the decline of the crepey flesh.

Rosebag, I have no idea whatsoever. If it helps, I am attending a meeting today and boozy lunch afterwards in black trousers (originally cropped Uniqlo orange jeans dyed by me last year when I came to my senses) a long linen top (charity shop and dyed a fetching charcoal by me) with a big Toast necklace. And silver jazz shoes purchased in the Boden kids' sale last year.

I've remembered there is a charming independent bra shop near me so shall take my bosoms there after Saturday's haircut, which is conveniently round the corner. Although it now only does REALLY HUGE NORKS - it has a sign outside which essentially says REALLY HUGE NORK SHOP.