She was lucky to find one that matches her frock
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Loving the lack of “if” in that statement 
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No need, Shirley ?
It is niece #1’s graduation in Exeter on Monday so the family are travelling down today.
Last night she sent out a scarily ambitious and precise schedule for the weekend, littered with lots of “DO NOT BE LATE” (primarily aimed at her Dad, a fellow Agent of Chaos).
At 11.30 last night her Mum replied pointing out that
a) nobody had started packing and niece #2 was still out partying, presumably somewhere in central London
b) she’d missed the bit where she
lost her keys
borrowed her neighbour’s keys
phoned up in tears because she was locked out and had now lost the second set of keys
found second keys on the floor
packed in five minutes, run for the train and caught it with 30 seconds to spare
eventually found the original keys in her back pocket where she had been sitting on them for two days
As you can imagine these events aren’t hypothetical and are only a small sample of what she brings to the table.
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A real survivor then.
I used to work with an Austrian woman who once showed me a plan like that for travelling from here to somewhere distant (Bulgaria ?) on multiple trains with some tight connections, including two or three in the UK. I asked her what Plan B was. She looked at me quizically, just saying that her timings were all from official timetables.
I think things had gone awry before she even arrived in France.
Planning is good. But don’t just make one.
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Last night was Sams last concert at South East Derbyshire Music Centre.
We are so proud if him, he’s been through so much, yet still achieved so much.
Part of the fab four!
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16 year old daughter has gone with her friend to London for a week and staying with one of my best mates.
I’m just proud she got on the train etc and is currently touring London of her own free will, a year ago she had a meltdown about getting on the bus from our house to her gymnastics club
I like this picture from yesterday’s batch of photos
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Fol#1 now a qualified Emergency Response driver paramedic, not the most stable
of vehicles on the road, now lead paramedic and driver.
I did drill into the girls ’ never work with the public ', now one’s a paramedic and the other a police officer. So much for parental influence.
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When niece #2 started a UAL she was a shy young woman who never spoke above a whisper.
This evening she’s sent a video from last night of herself serving behind the bar in Clapham while wearing a motorcycle helmet and giving both middle fingers to the camera.
She gets her results in a few days time. She’ll breeze it but IMO the above is a more important aspect of (at least the early parts of) higher education.
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Good luck to all those getting exam results this morning.
May you all surpass your expectations!
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Results day.
Ava has 3 A levels and an EPQ, all at A*. Dafuq?!!! Unbelievable.
She has a place at Durham University.
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Given everything I’ve learned about Ava, this doesn’t surprise me in the slightest.
The only bit that surprises me is that there’s a qualification called an EPQ, never heard of that! A search has just told me it’s like an extended A-Level, so now I’m back to being less surprised that Ava has one. Which subjects was she doing?
English Literature, History and Politics.
Her EPQ was a 5,000 word essay on the influence of women on the punk movement.
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Man, you must be so fucking proud. Hell, I’m feeling proud for you and I’ve never even met Ava!
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Go Ava!
(I think I have posted that before 
)
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Those were my A-levels! Excellent choices… and congrats on the results.
Great topic of essay too. Would genuinely be interested in reading it.
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So proud of Sam, he’s been through hell health wise on the way to getting this, a huge well done, he totally deserves it. Next chapter now 
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Our granddaughter did this last year.
Lots of A’s, got accepted at 5 of her university choices. Took a gap year, and traveled for 7 weeks with 4 friends in Europe, then did 3 weeks volunteer work in Bali, with a friend, then went to Peru, by herself, and did 4 weeks volunteer work. The volunteer work was in conservation.
In Sept she starts her degree at Anglia University, Norwich, reading Ecology and Conservation.
And, she is a very good footballer!
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Niece #2 has got her place at UAL, so that’s another three years of covering her “being generally fabulous” budget 
I’m hoping that niece #1 screws the pooch because from the way the wife is talking we’re on the hook for her masters if she does OK 
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