General Chat

Kemp he says it should be in by wednesday.
Eeyore I hope he doesn't suffer from vertigo,and hope too that their windows don't open too far!!!

Well we've told him he'd do well to take Base Jumping lessons-I took 'photos at arms length the view is unbelievable (don't like heights).

Helen ...you really must ring them ...........

Had to put another £100 in his account yesterday as loan still not in!!!

Sod That Eeyore !!!!!!! I,d walk ...hahaha

helen ....hopeless .............Packed a bag to go to girlfriends and put it in his wash bag ...go up this morning and wash bag had gone with retainers .....the lot !!!!

Cardiff-it's vvvv.tall with those quick lifts that leave your tummy at the bottom.

My son has "Freshers Sniffle"-it'll be flu by tomorrow!

Kemp,what are they like!! I don't mean his retainers lol.
How on earth has he managed that?
My son rang this morning sounding like a ninety year old chesty man.Think he has got chest infection now.Can't let them out of your sight for even a couple of weeks without something.

OMG.......................My sons rang home ......hes lost his retainers !!!!!
Anyone finding them please take to Loughborough Uni please ......................

Lost his toothbrush to!!

Are they all over their bugs now? My son is left with a chesty cough!!.I'm glad I don't live there with them all.

23rd Floor which uni is he at .....the Moon !?

Eeyore 23rd floor?That is a skyscraper!!!!Hope the lifts are in good working order.

One word of advice re. TV licensing - they were the bane of my life for three years!

Say you are in a flat in halls with four bedrooms and a kitchen/communal area - TV licensing count these as five separate addresses and will send you letters to this effect regarding the communal area being on their "unlicensed" database.

Because they assume that if you don't have a license you must be watching TV illegally, the easiest thing to do is ring them up and tell them there is no TV in the communal area (don't bother writing - I did and never got a reply). If you ignore the reminders, they will still keep arriving in the post.

It is a ridiculous system really, but there seems to be no way round it.

Theresa.....My son who shared a house with four others had to all have individual TV licence's, they had no locks on their room either! in fact, they were told that it is now deemed a Health and Safety issue for students to have locks on rooms.

Have now told son he does need one even if he doesn't use it .It won't matter what excuse he has for not having a license he could still be fined!!
It is all money money money at the mo.He is cancelling his car insurance as he can't have the car at Uni.He has to pay £50 to cancel!!!!!!!!

Info about licences here....

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/students.jsp#link4

Gwyn

My son has his own licence-he's in Halls
Re:Fire Alarm-my sis rang her son & they were all outside because it had gone off,he wasn't happy 'cause he'd just come back from shopping & stuff was de-frosting..........he's on the 23rd floor,eeek

If the student has a TV in their own locked room then a separate licence is necessary.
A friend's son had this question, but because he could lock his room within the shared household it was deemed to be a 'seperate' property and so they all had to have their own licence.

Gwyn

Think it is the same as for normal households - g.dau shared with 4 others in a house and one licence covered all.

Any of your young students had fire drill yet?
When my daughter was in halls at uni. there was often a late night alarm, when clubbing people got back and decided to make toast, or else boiled a kettle in their room and activated the sensitive detectors.
She was so often outside shivering that she took to sleeping with a warm track suit on the end of the bed which could be grabbed on the way out.
Better safe although I expect the firemen thought " Not again "

Gwyn

Richie nearly got caught out by the licensing people last year and it was my mistake. I thought Uni students were covered by their parents license until he got a visit...he got a few weeks grace and got it sorted. He was in alls then so I have another question to ask now..............he is living in a house with many students, do they have to get individual licences or just one for the house??


Still waiting on those food parcels ladies.....lol

love T.x