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Update from the house of Plague (Day 102 of Year 2)
Nothing interesting to report. I feel pretty rubbish - like low-key achy all over. Darcy is still unwell. The older two are swapping details of what they can't taste/smell. The 15 y.o. is still fine.
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Matt Hancock quits as health secretary after breaking social distance guidance
I'm with Corbyn:
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Lovely thread on today's Trans pride march. <3
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Daily Dimash: Just Let It Be
Another song in Mandarin (even though the chorus line is English).
“Just Let It Be” Universal Show 2019
DIMASH || JUST LET IT BE ( KAZAKH VERSION) ☯ LYRICS ( ENG/RUS/SPA)
Better video here, but it won't embed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZuYkgXQxUE
Dimash Masterpost
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Matt Hancock quits as health secretary after breaking social distance guidance
I'm with Corbyn:
Matt Hancock should have resigned over the Serco contract, the Care Home deaths, the PPE disaster and the treatment of NHS workers and carers.
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 26, 2021
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Lovely thread on today's Trans pride march. <3
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Daily Dimash: Just Let It Be
Another song in Mandarin (even though the chorus line is English).
“Just Let It Be” Universal Show 2019
DIMASH || JUST LET IT BE ( KAZAKH VERSION) ☯ LYRICS ( ENG/RUS/SPA)
Better video here, but it won't embed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZuYkgXQxUE
Dimash Masterpost
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Anyway, here's a chance to update you on everyone:
Miss M - now 22 and studying Fine Art (1st year). She started off studying Philosophy at Cambridge, didn't like it, came home, did some volunteering with a conservation charity (planting trees etc) for 1 year+ then decided that art was where her heart lay. :)
Impish Girl - just turned 20 and in her 2nd year studying Community Theatre.
The Cherub - 15 and in Year 10. Doing very well in school (loves science & sports) and is studying for Grade 8 violin.
Am very proud mother. <3
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And so you should be. I find it interesting that your older two are following similar paths to mine: F did History of Art at UCL, while R did European Theatre Arts at Rose Bruford. (F did violin too, but dropped it after Grade 3. It was a struggle. She did piano to Grade 5, but wasn't prepared to do the theory to go further.)
Cambridge - well, Oxbridge really - is so often presented as the pinnacle of ambition. I'm glad Miss M felt able to reconsider and follow her heart. Some good parenting going on there, I think.
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I look at your 'History of Art' and will send you a message, because... well. You'll see. :)
(F did violin too, but dropped it after Grade 3. It was a struggle. She did piano to Grade 5, but wasn't prepared to do the theory to go further.)
Oh the Cherub (I ought to think of a new nickname tbh) is 100% self-motivated, which is lovely. And music just 'works with her brain' as she puts it. She is even teaching herself piano (because we have one, and she knows music generally, so she just started to play around) but nothing 'proper' as it were.
Cambridge - well, Oxbridge really - is so often presented as the pinnacle of ambition. I'm glad Miss M felt able to reconsider and follow her heart. Some good parenting going on there, I think.
<3 She did love philosophy a lot (at one point her entire wish list for birthday/Christmas was just philosophy books) but it was too much of one thing and too dry (she has always been very creative), and the environment way too stuffy & uncomfortable. Cambridge were very supportive and helpful, and everyone was very nice (this is not a story about bullying or anything like that) she just felt out of place, unhappy, and the studies weren't engaging her. At which point, why bother being miserable for 3 years and letting her mental health suffer? As a contrast, she is now happy as can be, and loving her studies. :)
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Indeed. :-D
100% self-motivated, which is lovely. And music just 'works with her brain' as she puts it.
Mine loved and still love playing and singing, just disliked the theory. It's brilliant that your Cherub is so committed. Her age is scary; she was born just after I started my LJ account! I am sooo old.
At which point, why bother being miserable for 3 years and letting her mental health suffer? As a contrast, she is now happy as can be, and loving her studies. :)
That is what really matters. A passion for what you are doing makes a huge difference to any studies.
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Figured you'd appreciate it... :D
Mine loved and still love playing and singing, just disliked the theory.
Understandable.
It's brilliant that your Cherub is so committed. Her age is scary; she was born just after I started my LJ account! I am sooo old.
Yeah, it's weeeeeird. I had a virtual baby shower (a surprise organised by LJ friends). She's my internet baby.
That is what really matters. A passion for what you are doing makes a huge difference to any studies.
Literally working in Admissions, I can't stress this point enough...
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And yes, I agree with Corbyn, too. Why didn't he resign YONKS ago?? Meh.
*HUGS*
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Thank you. At the moment it's manifesting as a stinking cold. Meh.
And yes, I agree with Corbyn, too. Why didn't he resign YONKS ago?? Meh.
Tories will Tory. /cynical
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There are a lot of entertaining memes re. the whole affair thing, but overall it's just somehow ridiculous that THIS is what brought him down. The list is endless. :(
Hope you start to feel better soon.
Thank you. <3
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