That’s a good point - hopefully they’ll be able to find a better treatment soon :D

Having some lighter weight lessons always came in handy. On a Friday, we had German followed by French, followed by English before lunch, then double Science in the afternoon o.O I don’t know who made that timetable, but they weren’t very clever about giving us a balanced selection of lessons in the day!

nods I think it would’ve helped if we’d had more of an idea about what kind of projects we could do, and what we were actually looking to achieve / discover from it. Then we might have been able to think of a project that we wanted to do, without needing to make a rushed decision (or being given the project by the teacher!).

Amazon are super speedy when it comes to delivering! Those two colouring books are perfect, and the pens look brilliant! I’m looking forward to trying them out later :D Thank you!!!!!!

And huge thank you for the goodies in the box on here as well :D

You'd think that by now they would have discovered something that works as well as chem, but doesn't have the nasty side effects! Hopefully the immunotherapy has been beneficial for her :D

I think the hanging basket bracket would've been ok if the basket had fake flowers and no soil, but I don't think my metalwork skills were good enough to handle a proper hanging basket's weight! laughs

Yeah, the first we'd heard about needing to come in over the summer was a couple of weeks before the end of that term.... you'd think the teacher would have told us in advance (like when we picked that subject in the first place!)?! Strictly speaking, we were all meant to pick a project ourselves (something that interested us). But none of us managed to think of something that would work :P I don't think it helped that up to that point, all the projects were given to us, so we'd never had to think of a project to work on!

Firstly, I want to apologise for the fact that your Christmas present has only just gone in the post this week.... I had it all ready to wrap and send, but it's taken a lot longer than I'd anticipated to get it sorted out 😊 Your birthday present is also ready to wrap, so I'm hoping I can get that in the post this week :)

I was going to sMail the birthday ideas, but sMail doesn't seem to use the coding in the same way for links o.O so I'll add it here instead :)

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I've got a couple of ideas - I've been working through some different style colouring books in the last few months (the Johanna Basford ones are really good, but sometimes they feel too detailed, especially if it's a high-fatigue day for me), so here's a couple of suggestions:

Colouring Book Colouring Book Colouring Book Colouring Book or maybe some fine liner pens / glittery gel pens that I can add some sparkly detail in with? (as usual, feel free to do any or none of those ideas!) Thanks! :D

I hope your friend's chemo goes smoothly, but that's sweet of you to go and help her while she's having that done :)

Oven mitts and an apron are pretty useful things to make :D The candleholder sounds really creative though - I never used my hanging basket bracket, as I wasn't convinced it was strong enough to hold the weight! :P

Urgh, that kind of instruction book is always a nightmare! You'd think they would make it easier to follow, or at least have the instructions on that page rather than having to then go to a different page completely o.O Makes me think of those 'choose your adventure' books, where you pick what happens next by going to whichever page ;)

nods wiring a plug came in handy at work, seeing as I was on the lighting department, and there were about 50 connectors that needed wiring for the displays to be changed over! And yeah, I didn't understand how that was just expected of us to come in over the holidays.... one of the students had moved to the UK a few years ago, so potentially his family could've been planning on going back to their previous country to visit relatives in the holidays. I kind of knew how an oscilloscope worked, but I didn't really see how using that to show musical notes was actually going to make a complete project (once I knew what the note 'looked' like, what was I going to do with that information to make a proper project out of it?!)

Up until the "um" I was sure it was an AI voice.... after that point I really didn't know for certain, until it eventually said "I can't help you, so I will pass you on to a person" o.O

We did sewing for one term (I think I made a drawstring bag for my dance shoes laughs), plastic-work for a term (I made a little box that contained a soil tester probe so you could put it into your pot plants and see if they needed watering.... the box fell apart after a week laughs), and metal work for one term as well (pretty sure I made a hanging basket bracket.... wonder if I've still got that somewhere?!), but it seemed that whenever there was something I particularly enjoyed (like the sewing), we only got to do it for one term!

I can imagine that took a while to even get to the right page in the book? ;)

MDF is Medium Density Fibreboard - kind of a cheaper alternative to wood. At that point we didn't have to use masks or anything when it was being cut (I think it was seen as being safer than wood in a way), but now they would insist on everyone wearing a mask as it's not good to breath in the dust from it o.O

Elements of physics were quite fun, like wiring a plug (I had a rough idea of how to do that, as I'd watched my Grandad change a fuse in a plug a few times, and he was trying to teach me which lead is which), but when we had to pick our own project to work on over the summer holidays (literally we were expected to come into school over the holidays to work on it), I really felt out of my depth as I didn't know what I was going to pick (we were given a couple of ideas, but it was supposed to be something we'd chosen to work on / analyse). In the end my project was going to be how an Oscilloscope shows the frequency of musical notes o.O but I quit Physics before the summer holidays, so I didn't work on that project in the end ;)

Im so bored with subeta. I think its the main reason i keep forgetting to check in hear. Or i think i replied but i didnt. Hows it going? I have a pretty bad infection that sent me to the er yesterday. But the fast acting antibiotics they did seems to be having some effect. Yay.