Though She Be Crepey, She Is FIERCE!

[QueenQueenie]

Ta Da!

Oh, it's Y12 that's bad, so at least they have a chance to pull their socks up.

QQ, that's fantastic news, congratulations to him. Enjoy a tonight. How lovely to be able to make plans now. dd had that with Track and the school website then crashed so she had to wait for her grades, very odd.

Stropps, it sounds as tho dd has risen brilliantly to the stress of this week - that must bode well for the future whatever the results slip says. She is getting that strength and restraint from somewhere.......hope you get the results soon.

Thanks for all good wishes crepeys - AF fully arrived last night, possibly induced by my trying not to snigger at this thread while watching GBBO with dd's chatty [hmmm] mates. Pains gone.

BTM, your holiday sounds lovely. Strength with dd. My dd has at least one majorly mad, rage-filled day every holiday, even when we are away for a week in the place she insists on going to and loves beyond all others.

BD, I think it is a good question. Freelances get to see how different clients react - some deal calmly and professionally with problems and others you really want to ask that!

I may be able to make next friday, need to work out what on earth I should have been doing the last three days and get sorted.

I stuffed up my A-levels. Third set of exams that year for me (Oxford entrance, mocks and then A-levels), worked bloody hard for all of them and suddenly bombed spectacularly.

Fab news QQ so pleased for your DS. Much good sleep to him.

Congratulations QQDS!

My A level grades were spectacularly bad, but I got an unconditional offer when I applied for uni the following year (which I didn't take up). I resat them and got exactly the same grades again...

Also irrelevant point re GBBO: is it me - and my sis - but do they manage to make everything suggestive in a Carry On Baking sort of way? DSis pointed out (we were texting happily to each other) that even 'lamination' carries an innuendo.

Congrats PP (that's Prince Princey). Who's a clever boy.

MI - your disaster I must say makes me feel better! I thought it was just me that made mistakes. I then get terribly defensive, and on the back foot, and sweat over every little thing. Your approach is much better.

I once published a magazine with a map entitled 'current projects' running across a double-page spread. The magazine got bound too tightly, so the spine ate a few letters. Guess which letters it ate? Yes, the 'RRE' of 'CURRENT'. I did laugh heartily at that one...

BD - is there any value in playing it 'with a straight bat', saying you can't take on the extra, and then, indeed, not taking on the extra once the people have been sacked?

Good luck with DD today Stropps. You are a model of fortitude.

In baby news, a woman I worked with years ago, who I know wanted a baby even then, has just told me she's 18 weeks pregnant. After a horrible early pregnancy, massively high Downs risk, amnio, long wait for results, etc etc... Marvellous.

I bloody LOVE the innuendo in Bake Off. It would be rather twee and pointless without the cocked eyebrows and sauce.

WAY TO GO!!!!!!!!!!! QQ's DS!!!!!! Fab news. Hooray!

Bloody good news re attitude shift for Stropps DD !!

OK so we have half DS2's AS results which we could get on line. They. Are. Ace. Will be off to school for the remaining two at lunchtime. Which is the really stressful bit…as will determine if he can do the subjects he wants for A2… (i.e. Music and drop Spanish…) with DH who is WFH today and absented himself to a remote spare room just as we were logging on. What is it with these bloody men…?

Probably in Sussex for 21st but will stay in touch…

My A level grades weren't that good but because we were interviewed by the Universities, they didnt mind that I dropped a point or two, and still accepted me….

Glad GBBO worked for you, lalsy

My A levels are one of the few things in life I did not stuff up. Even though my auld arse of a df said, "Shame about the B in Latin." (got As in the others) As I had only done Latin for 4 years in total and the other people in my A level class had done 11 years of Latin, I was convinced I would fail completely and still consider it a minor miracle that I passed, never mind got a B.

Dd has to go into school at 11 to pick up her results. She says she and her friends have already chosen the spot on the school field where they are going to lie face-down and cry.

Herbs I snorted loudly at your magazine mishap and got a bunch of funny looks (am sitting in the hairdressers while ds gets his his hair cut).

X-posts, Rose! Many congrats to your ds!

Oh, I love the innuendo. And even more the fact that they can go all ooer matron about anything, like whether a biscotti (surely a biscotto? DSis and I were most concerned about this) is firm enough or maybe that's just me. And as for the boxes...

I love the innuendo as well - think it makes a big difference that it is led by women and is cheery or affectionate, not humiliating. Also love the digs at Paul.

Rose - waahaay . Fingers crossed for the other half.

Stropps, crepey forces with you.

Oh dear. An across the board results disaster here. Not unexpected, but we are going to have a tough time salvaging anything. Hope dd doesn't do anything daft today. She has just rung off in tears.

Oh Stropps Really hope you both get through the day and next few OK

Aw Stropps . I know it isn't unexpected but one always hopes. I am glad she rang you straight away, and hope you get to ply her with biscuits and support later. There will be a way through. xx

Oh hell. So sorry. [tea]

Sorry Stropps. Bon courage

Sorry Stropps. Hope you can both weather the disappointment without too much fall out.

Ach, I just hope she manages to pull herself together and make some constructive choices now. She's not really surprised, I don't think, although she was hoping to have scraped Cs in Maths and Biology, but hasn't. She hasn't been to many lessons, hasn't ever caught up what she missed, hasn't done any homework and has spent most of the year embroiled in various social and emotional probs. Has had repeated warnings from all her teachers. All things considered, 4 Ds and an E is not as bad as it might have been, but if she really wants to go to University, she will have to follow a different tack.

I am simply worried that she will use this as a trigger for more self-destructive behaviour, rather than a major positive re-think. Keep your fingers crossed for us Crepeys!

Fingers, arms, toes and legs all firmly crossed. X

Oh Strops, what a shame. Hope she goes for the "major rethink" path rather than the other one.

Rose, QQ - pass on my crepey congrats to your offspring! Cambridge, brilliant!

I aced my As, but I was at a school where it was Not Acceptable to take one's foot off the gas, even if one had already landed an Oxford place. I waited until I got to university, then caught up on all the slacking I'd missed at school.

I also went Perseid-spotting last night. DD1 and I lay on the trampoline for a good half hour - we saw an amazing one within 30 seconds, then hardly anything else for the other 29.5 minutes.

Stropps, is she doing five for a reason? Tis a hell of a lot. And I know dc, including dd, who found frees in school really helped with motivation and meant they could go home feeling they had achieved something in a short time, which put wind in their sails for a bit of a push at home. I do realise there are bigger issues if she is missing a lot of school and so on, just a thought.