it’s actually quite hard work, especially making sure you get the pronunciation of the more exotic names correct. You do not want to get it wrong and upset the graduate and their tribe.
Reading out the names is one of the few things about my job I don’t enjoy. I love the pomp and ceremony of our ceremony in St Albans Abbey, but name reading…not for me
International Relations & History. He did quite an interesting dissertation about frozen conflicts, ie unresolved international disputes (many of which seem to have occurred around the periphery of the former USSR).
Longer term I think he’d like a career in foreign aid work.
Rugby son managed to pass his first year at Loughborough fairly easily, now the work begins, youngest and cleverest son on target for a 1st in Maths (crossed fingers) from Liverpool Hope and now in his final year.
Eldest two daughters now finding out what it is like being in charge of peoples work, oh the complaints I get.
First day of senior school and with the difference in height, it’s hard to believe they are the same age. The lad’s clothes fit like shit but he is growing at such an alarming rate, I can’t be doing with alterations!
They turned twelve last week, the passage of time…