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#5941 Post by LAT » Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:31 am

MBH wrote: I hope that for you efforts you got it to tell you the answer to BUN/BURST and ACROBAT/BROWSE before you let it go.
Oh you bet! :lol: Trouble is while the answer to BUN/BURST sounded plausible I didn't understand the other one at all. :roll:

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#5942 Post by giraffe » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:35 pm

Been to get K's GCSE results. 7A*s 3As and a B in additional maths that she was convinced she had failed! What a relief! I knew she was capable, but she has been so fed up with school the last two years that I was hoping she didn't blow it completely.

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#5943 Post by Redfraggle » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:39 pm

Oh WOW! That's amazing results. Well done - I bet you're really proud :D

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#5944 Post by eirian » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:41 pm

Congratulations, Kingsley! Those are fantastic results.
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#5945 Post by LAT » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:57 pm

Brilliant results, very well done to Kingsley. :D

Onward and upward now. :D

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#5946 Post by kathlyn » Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:59 pm

Great results Kingsley, well done :D

EDIT

Just heard from my granddaughter and she got 7a*, 5a and a distinction in IT
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#5947 Post by tricia » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:26 pm

Well Done Kingsley - what fantastic results

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#5948 Post by MBH » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:51 pm

That is a great set of results - good work Kingsley.

I wonder how many bonus marks she got for being a PuzzleBrainer ;) Must be worth something.

It's a long way from my wide scattering of Bs and Cs (through to CSE grade 5 in German).

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#5949 Post by Scurra » Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:53 pm

What everyone else said. :D
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#5950 Post by chazzie » Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:03 pm

Excellent Kingsley - Well done - and well done to proud Mum

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#5951 Post by clvrlad » Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:15 am

good on you ;-)
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#5952 Post by Wulfruna » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:15 pm

Wow Kingsley - that's fantastic! We all knew you could do it. Perhaps the old High School was not so awful after all....? :?
And congratulations too to the proud Mum.... that long neck just reached a bit higher to the heavens, I guess :lol:
A great foundation for future progress, wherever that might lead :D

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#5953 Post by Laura » Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:00 pm

Well, I've had a right day! I woke up to discover my laptop had stopped working. Took it to PC world who said it would cost hundreds to repair. So went to Staples, Maplins etc. looking at various laptops. Then went to the local little tiny repair shop who said they'd probably be able to fix it for £85. Left it with them, and went to meet one of my other Brownie leaders, who informed me that one of the other Brownie leaders who was going to be taking a year out before going to uni has been offered a place in Wales and is leaving in 3 weeks! So, by 10.00am, I was a computer and a Brownie leader down! :roll:

Anyhoo, the laptop can't be fixed, so I now have a new one (after another couple of hours faffing in PC world), and none of the keys seem to be where I want them to be. I'm on new versions of word and excell, so none of the buttons are where I want them to be. None of my favourites are here. I'm feeling very lost and confused and have come to the conclusing that I DON'T LIKE CHANGE!!! :cry:

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#5954 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:31 pm

giraffe wrote:Been to get K's GCSE results. 7A*s 3As and a B in additional maths that she was convinced she had failed! What a relief! I knew she was capable, but she has been so fed up with school the last two years that I was hoping she didn't blow it completely.
Fantastic results!! Well done indeed. :D
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#5955 Post by Laura » Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:39 pm

In case anyone is around right now, or wants to i-player it - I am VERY much enjoying the comedy prom right now on BBC2. There hasn't been a dud act on yet. Loving it!!!

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#5956 Post by clvrlad » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:06 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0147xbc/

just about to watch it now
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#5957 Post by MBH » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:15 am

:lol: I've just seen the opening number (before my wireless signal started playing up) and I'm hooked :lol: I'll catch this some time during the week.

Thanks for the pointer.

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#5958 Post by kathlyn » Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:30 pm

That was a really fun prom last night.
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#5959 Post by Scurra » Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:43 pm

I listened to it live, a couple of weeks ago. There have been some great Proms this year (the film music one was great, as was Nigel Kennedy doing Bach.)
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#5960 Post by Laura » Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:13 pm

LIVE live? Or on the radio live? If it was really live, then I'm very jealous!!! If it wasn't for the fact that my sister who lives in London was up here visiting us, I would have been down there visiting her and dragging her along too!

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