One down one to go. Georgina has now moved to her student house
in Cardiff ready to start her Psychology Degree. I guess that there will be some “freshers”
activities over the next couple of weeks before the course actually
starts. Having time to be with Georgina
whilst we travelled to Wales was really enjoyable. Having time to talk to her and listen to what
she’s been up to, catching up on the gossip about her friends was great. Georgina telling me how much more ready she
was for University than this time last year was really pleasing. Hardly surprising given everything she had
gone through. It could not have been
easy for her to move away from the family home only a couple of months after
the passing of her mother. Since she had
her sabbatical from University Georgina has really turned it around. Much more
assured and content with herself. Georgina
has been a huge help at home stepping into situations whenever it was
needed. Georgina has ferried me into
town from time to time and even prepared my Company’s accounts. I am really proud of her and will miss her
being around.
Georgina has been looking forward
to returning to college for some time. So
much so that she had already made a couple of trips to Cardiff to ship her
stuff and equipment to the student house.
All we had to take over today was her clothes. I’m not sure why I under-estimated how much
in the way of clothes Georgina actually had.
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I seen in the hallway a full family
sized suitcase, six plastic packing crates of clothes and jewelry and two full
holdalls piled up against the front door.
In addition there was a brand new duvet and a red cushion bought by
Nanny. Somehow we just managed to pack
it all into the car.
During our “enjoyable” journey
Georgina asked “Dad can we take a trip around Tesco”
“Of course George”
Was I being played? Probably!
She’s my daughter. Was I really going to say “no”. And Georgina knew it!
Tesco was expecting us. When I say “us” I mean Tesco was expecting
the army of “Uni families” who were about to descend on Cardiff. In the supermarket’s foyer there were piles
of 3kg bags of pasta stacked high , a huge tower of baked beans, crates of Tesco
branded super noodles at 15pence a pack, boxes of tomato ketchup, 1000s of bundled
up coat hangers, toasted sandwich makers for £6 and so on.
There were plenty of “Uni
families” trouncing up and down the supermarket aisles. In fact you can spot
the “Uni family” quite easily. Mum or
dad are struggling to push the shopping trolley, which is filled to
overspilling, following their sweetness and light i.e. the student, wondering
if they will survive away from the family “nest”. The student on the other hand is taking no
chances and is on some sort of “trolley dash” filling the trolley knowing this
is the last time for a while that they won’t have to pay for the shopping and
that every penny saved is more beer tokens for them. In fact Georgina informed me that she will be
going to Lidl from now on because its cheaper and that she had put cheese into
the trolley as she wouldn’t be able to afford it from now on. So thoughtful!
In truth I really enjoyed the day
with Georgina today. As I said it’s been
a pleasure to have her around and it was a joy to see Georgina so confident. She has rid herself of the self-doubters in
her mind that use to haunt her. I have
every confidence that Georgina will be successful in her Psychology
Degree. I couldn’t help but feel that
Caroline was with us today as she wouldn’t have missed this for anything. Caroline would have been so proud of Georgina
and so pleased to see her mature into a loving young woman. Georgina is a credit to her mother.
Good luck
Mum & Dad xx
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