Good morning from angry muggy Glasgow.
Glad to hear the test was negative, Grandmattie. Families!!!!
An exciting day planned here ...well not really.
A Tesco delivery, a bit of baking and possibly a visit from SIL with my prescriptions.
Mr Grumpy will continue trying to dig up a dead tree root to provide more room for our many bins.
My neighbour had her garden remodelled and offered us her old slabs. My husband doesn't understand the need for this, as he is a big, strong man, who can pull out the bins easily, without putting his back out! ? Ion the other hand, find it daunting.☹️
Yesterday I got a lovely surprise. When we were down the coast on Wednesday, I realised we had a gift voucher for a restaurant we passed. On checking it back home, I discovered it had expired during lockdown.
I emailed the restaurant group, stating I had been shielding and hadn't been able to use it and got a lovely return email within ten minutes, saying they would extend it until 2021.
The person who replied, said that I needed a little boost, as I hadn't been able to get out for so long. One of the best customer services experience ever. ☺️
Ginster, I understand you are upset, but I'm not sure about Scottish students taking ALL the places up, due to earlier results, as that would be discriminatory and unfair and it would happen every year, as the Scottish results have always come out earlier. There would have been an outcry before now if English and Welsh students didn't get their places because Scottish students took them.
The disappointing exam results are awful and so unfair and I feel for your granddaughter. It reminds me of my own experience. My final degree depended on a resit result. My DH, then my fiancè went to check the university notice board, as I was working in the Knorr factory for the summer, my name was missing from the list. ? Of course that meant no degree. I was obviously devastated.
DH encouraged me to write to my tutor to discuss my options.
It took some persuasion, but I reluctantly did it.
One Saturday morning, I was working in the bar of a local social club, when my mother contacted me to say my university tutor had phoned me. I returned the call to find my name has been mistakenly missed off the pass list and had actually pachieved my degree.
I sat down in the bar sobbing. Unfortunately, some of the customers got the wrong end of the stick and wanted to sort out, whoever had upset me!?
There are systems in place to help students like your granddaughter, so she needs to be proactive and fight back. What I'm trying to say is that although it doesn't seem so at the time, but sometimes things work out even better. I'm sure she will get there.
Wishing you all the best of days.