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Dancers Dad

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  1. My daughter went to the Manchester shows on Wednesday and Friday. Loved it - and said Friday was easily the best. A couple of gasp-out-loud moments she said. But she too was infuriated by the apparent inability of people to watch a ballet without unwrapping and eating sweets and crisps!
  2. It's appalling how little things change, despite warm words and all that corporate guff on their website. On the ground, they couldn't project-manage their way out of a paper bag. Poor old front desk team get landed with everything, time after time. I hope their complacency is punctured soon as students start voting with their feet. Let's hope it's not a genuine disaster that wakes them up. I like the sound of the non-uS accommodation you found!
  3. No - I understand your worries there... I didn't realise that about insurance. Is that universal? Our home insurance seems to cover going away to school/college/Uni but I'd better check for an under 18 exemption...
  4. Oh dear... it does sound universal. The on-site team are excellent and doing their very best - they must be exhausted. It's their superiors I'm so cross with. There was no lock on my daughter's door so she couldn't sleep there the first night... It was filthy, as per your experiences. And she's had two major leaks, including on to her stuff. It's been quite upsetting. I hope the students log every single problem and make sure they make their presence felt. While I agree that it's great they're in, whoever signed this off needs to have a serious word with themselves! On the plus side, she's loved being back in school and is very excited for the year ahead!
  5. Very glad to hear this 👍 Yes! It's been a terrible start though as the refurbishments to her flat really haven't been finished properly. I was wondering if we've just been unlucky or whether this was a wider experience...
  6. Advice please: my daughter has some new pointe shoes and has been advised to paint a strip across the shank to reinforce it. Apparently we need shellac/wood hardener/glue - does anyone have any advice of what to actually buy and what works please? I see Bloch does a small expensive bottle of something appropriate but is there a cheaper way? Thank you.
  7. Yes, this was a bit naughty. I think my daughter is lucky and only there one day a week - but it has been rather sprung on them, along with the extra bus fare they'll have to pay themselves.
  8. My daughter's gutted about this - loves her copy coming through the post each month and reads it from cover to cover. Are there any other comparable magazines, either print or online?
  9. Oh no - that must have been a nightmare. Glad you and your dancer got past that and continued so successfully. We went to see Clive this week. Very good - good manner, knowledgeable obviously, and keen to act conservatively first, which is sensible. Was able to make a few little adjustments there and then. We came out with more optimism, lots of advice and a shopping list! Fortunately most recommendations are not expensive: mainly surgical spirit and LIDL hypo-allergenic plasters!
  10. Sounds like you have a good understanding of what's going on and hopefully are being reassured by all the thoughtful responses above. Until we hit something huge like this we can tend to rub along in life without too many massive emotional highs and lows but this is an extraordinary situation that creates extraordinary (but normal) responses. I think part of the trick is to accept that it will be very hard sometimes - but overcoming those challenges is a huge part of what they're trying to achieve, indeed it's integral to success. And the highs will be as thrilling as the lows are hard. And as I tell my daughter, if you didn't feel your feelings this strongly, you wouldn't be able to dance so beautifully.
  11. Thanks very much. I've dropped him a message.
  12. Hi - many thanks for this, much appreciated.
  13. Hi all Anyone have a podiatrist who knows and understands dance/dancers/pointe work? Ideally Nottingham/Derby/Birmingham but willing to go a bit further afield. Thanks very much
  14. Here we are - 3 Smalls Not worn too often All stitching on seams is good as new Fronts have adjustable tie Smoke-free, pet-free home Only washed in non bio Daughter's name is visible, if faded, on labels inside £35 new I think - so offering for £20 each plus whatever it costs to post.
  15. Turns out there are three! Will post photos and a price tomorrow.
  16. Sure. Bear with me while we locate them and photograph them. First refusal to you.
  17. We've got a couple of the grey leotards to sell if anyone's interested. They've been worn but not too much and still in good order. Size Small. (My daughter found them to be the wrong size after a few weeks so mostly wore some replacements we had to get.) I can get them photographed if anyone's interested.
  18. Give Dancique in Bham a call or a Messenger message - we've had Russian Pointe shoes from them for years (though supply has been difficult recently).
  19. Interesting. Well spotted. The BIMM corporate guff about it explains absolutely nothing about what it means for current students! I'm sure more will emerge.
  20. Depending if you prefer a normal zip-up tracksuit top or a pull-over-your-head base layer, just one of those would be fine. There's not a huge amount of difference. Some have one of the tops, some have both.
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