Ron is right. You have the heart of a born Mum. I too, hope the diagnosis is nothing serious, and that the lad gets himself sorted. It really grieves me to see the potential of a youngster like that piffed away (I'm hoping to get a voluntary job working with young people in the near future).

I do hope it all goes well, Milly. You've taken on a lot, but I'm sure you're right to do so in the circumstances, so long as you have made it absolutely clear it's a temporary arrangement. As you say, if he gets too comfortable he may be hard to shift.

It definitely isn't glandular fever.  I've had that and so has my son.  He isn't ill enough.  This is a definite hard lump on the side of his neck.  Not the usual glands on either side of the throat.  The lumps follow the lymph down his left arm.  He has three altogether. They're all the same, round and hard.

It's going well up to now.  All unpacked, fed, settled.  He's just been for a run down the beach for 30 minutes.  He says he's trying to get fit for an army medical.  He seems to really want to join up.  We'll have to see.

I mourn the death of the fun waffle thread. There was a time when if an amusing tease was posted  the other people on the thread reacted accordingly. Now it is ignored, deliberately. The general atmosphere is now like an agony aunt's page in some newspaper.

Where is the fun? the llamas, the ducks, the parties, the hoon, the humour?

I no longer have interest in this thread that I started all those posts ago.

Sad .

A

It's worth remembering that with the proliferation of threads here now, there are other places for humour, too, A, and that waffle quite often appears on other threads for a spell, as well as this dedicated one: the board has always been more dynamically free-form than strictly proscribed in this respect.

 I'm sure that most members find themselves drifting in and out of interest or sympathy with the predominant subjects occasionally. It's the way things work in a forum: one major topic is replaced by another, and there will be times when the general flow is not to certain members' personal tastes. It certainly happens to me, especially, for example, when there's a London meet-up, and the board becomes almost totally metro-centric for days: but such times soon pass.

We have to learn to go with the flow.....

A, with regard to fun threads, they seem to have migrated to the Funny Haha room and the humorous news story threads.  The waffle thread with ducks and llamas seems to have evolved to just ordinary waffle.  Although that was hilarious at the time, I don't think it could have gone on for ever.

Apologies for spilling out my problems in particular.  I won't do it any more if it's making people miserable.

Well I suppose I was just looking at it as waffling on....but you're right Mary, definitely the wrong thread.  Perhaps the Mods could shift it over?