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Places like Tiffany's do A level alongside - but it might be a level 3 - I can't remember

Yes she was talking about it tonight - Dance Theatre will be fine, she is working on her singing tho'

Oh how wonderful

Everyone reacts differently DD is much better this morning (but still a bit grumpy!)

sblick - that sounds just like DD - her arm isn't too swollen (yet?) She doesn't normally react to them (I often do)

Poor DD had it yesterday (after I made all that fuss) & has had quite a reaction to it today (although it could be co-incidence) I've suggested paracetamol/ibuprofen but she hasn't got any as she is at a sleep over & she has asked DH to go & collect her early Edited to correct it

Thanks for the suggestions - DD is happy with the foundation - if I can work out how I'll post a picture after I've sewn the ribbons on

Thank you Goodness - a new thread - how nice Checking the other thread & Thanks Julie

Isn't she covered under "Or if you are under 25 and going into your first year away from home"?

I've mixed the foundation with some grapeseed oil and it is applying much more easily - it's a great colour match & she is planning when she can wear them - she doesn't think she will get to wear them often.

DD is mixed race (Jamaican/White) and she says she fancies some skin coloured ballet shoes; we have some old satin shoes that we thought we would try with as we can't afford Pointe shoes in case it goes very, very wrong. So I read up (watched) on Youtube, we bought some cheap(ish) foundation in the right colour and off I went Well tbh it hasn't gone well I can't get good coverage and it looks like I may need a second lot of foundation I'd definitely going to try buying the ribbons as I don't think they will dye easily Any helpful hints or tips?

Performers to hopefully do Musical Theatre but we won't know for sure until the end of the first year as they may decide she has to do Dance theatre....she did the pre-voc there last year & loved it If you think, she started dance seriously in September 2011 & now 4 yrs later is at vocational school - it's a massive change

Thanks;it's nice to know that DD has a nice spreadsheet planned for September!! Oh I freely admit I cried my eyes out when I got the email. Mind you I hated going round all the charities and 'begging' but it had to be done!

Thanks guys; the grant pretty much replaces out Tax credit which are going to drop in September - it's such a relief

It's all coming together for DD.....She has worked so hard - at college and over the holidays She managed to get a funded place at college and has spent the summer saving up to help towards food/accommodation in September (she had 4 jobs!). It was going to be very tight and DH & I were going to share a car and make lots of savings to enable her to go We found out at lunchtime she has also been awarded a grant - which will cover all her accommodation & add-on costs (uniform/physio/extras) So her 'savings' can now be spending money, something she was going to be very short of..... I am SO, SO proud of her

DD said "Aww I'm too old!!"

The surgery rang at 7:30 this morning to say they changed their mind & she can have it I'm obviously persuasive.....or a terrible nag

I'm a wuss - she is having it The GP surgery gave her the Men C last year as she was going away to college & I tried the she is a fresher this year & it didn't work, so....

CeliB - I kind of get that she is at less risk than a 'true' first year but she will be in a first year with other first years who may or may not have had their injection. I feel (perhaps wrongly) that a mix of true first years ranging in age from 16 to mid 20's, plus ex pre-voc students who may struggle to get the vaccine, plus students who have done their degree and are now doing MT make for a very interesting morass of germs So I'm happy to pay but not happy to send her without it illogical maybe

Yes you can get it if you are in yr 12 or 13 at school - DD isn't Or if you are going to uni (so just finished yr 13) - DD isn't Or if you are under 25 and going into your first year away from home - DD isn't Or if you are going on holiday to sub-saharan Africa - well what a co-incidence DD happens to have been invited to holiday in Zimbabwe (true - we just don't know when) Costing, as I mentioned, £70 Ah well! More money

Yep I did all that Because she did a pre-voc last year she is not a fresher so she can't have the going to uni for the first time one Because she is not 18 she can't have the going to uni one I'll ring the helplines edited to add I am prepared to lie

Not keeping my fingers crossed - if I do the right thing & something horrible happens I will have to cope; if I chose not to do the right thing and something horrible happens it will forever be my fault

Nope they won't do it as she isn't travelling

bit far - Boots say £70!!!

The surgery has refused point blank & cannot offer a private option DD is going into a first year of a course at 17 (yr13) & so will be un-inocculated while her contemporaries will have had the vaccine I am not happy Travel clinic? Hmm I'm googling