Blimey, I can't keep up anymore. Have wrapped up SS and will post tomorrow.
Here, dd hasn't done much in the way of revision, has a stinking cold and a face full of something akin to eczema, but whatever the doc has given her hasn't touched it. And her mocks are, I think, tomorrow and Tues. Daren't ask as she is so ragey. Currently of course watching TV and eating brunch, in between wailing about the amount of work she has to do and how ill she is. 
Suspect PMT is also having an effect. Ho hum.
Well done to Auriga's dd on another couple of top-notch performances.
I re-drafted an assignment yesterday, but now have to produce a lesson plan plus sackload of Christmas/Minecraft themed resources to go with it. I put the Christmas tree up last night - only the same old bundle of plastic twigs that we have every year and load with red and gold tat, but we are fond of it all the same. Ddog loves Christmas - he gets his own stocking and presents 
- and last night he came downstairs just after I had finished the tree. The dcs were not partic excited by the tree, although dd did help to decorate it (ds too busy watching some lowest common denominator guff on the tv), but ddog was v. excited. He rushed to his pile of toys and got 2 and put them under the tree. Used his nose to push them right underneath and then sat there wagging his tail feverishly. No idea what he thought would happen next, but he was very happy. 
At least someone appreciates my efforts.
Cousins. Hmm. Sore point. My dm's family are obsessed with all their blood relatives, no matter how distant the connection. Only 2 first cousins, to whom I used to be very close, but things have, for complex reasons not unconnected with the controlling nature of my dm and her siblings, gone somewhat pear-shaped.
Loads of second cousins with whom my dm keeps closely in touch. I don't have much in common with most of them and never come across them as they all live in North Norfolk.
My first cousins on df's side that are still alive are all in their 70s. Df fell out spectacularly with their mothers so I never knew them really. One of them is schizophrenic and is regularly sectioned and goes through phases of terrorising my dm, which she used to be able to deal with, but can't any more. I am FB friends with a couple of the dcs of these cousins, but have only met one of them once, when he was about 12 and I was 21. I got in contact with his mother despite my df having strongly advised me against it and went to visit her and her family in France. It was a very "interesting" experience. I could see why my df and his niece didn't see eye-to-eye.