Struggling to keep up here, so many posts to digest. Well done to your Ds1, QQ. What a superb start to the year!
Glad to hear you had good news, NU.
I can imagine you look luffly in that dress, Rudy.
Much strength to all those who are enduring mock-related stress.
Dd did pretty badly in most of her exams - as expected - and had a minor wail about it on Monday evening. But I was all matter-of-fact and "What did you expect?" and actually she pulled herself together very quickly and has reacted by doing homework (!!) and re-doing a couple of her exams. I did let the school know about the dreadful headaches she was suffering during the exams, but I also told them that dd admitted that her results would not have been stellar even without the headaches. I think that's fair and so does dd. So, another bit of progress is made as she grows up a bit more. Dd is also being a bit more flexible about what she might study at university (should she get there), i.e. no longer quite so fixated on vet science - which is a blessing. A bit more realistic to aim for life sciences or something like it. But she does realise she won't get a sniff of anything like that unless she applies herself consistently from now on. Job has been given up. Thank goodness. She can't manage 5 subjects in the 6th form and have to work 1.5 days at the weekend. I knew that, but she had to find it out for herself.
This weekend, I shall mainly be doing a very dull assignment on the Equality Act. It is progressing very, very slowly and I am fed up already. Then I need an all-singing, all-dancing whizz-bang lesson for Tues, as I felt last week's was a bit pedestrian. Nothing was said by the tutors, but I suspect that's just because they weren't looking too closely as someone else was making a more active bodge-up than I was.