After two years.....

 After two years of waiting, TYM finally graduated from Chester uni on Friday. I kept my fingers crossed and kept a little of myself back just in case it got cancelled. He's already had his Masters one postponed once this year. However, with a great sigh of relief it went ahead on what was a beautifully sunny and warm Spring day. We travelled up the day before and took him out for a delayed celebratory meal at the Frodsham pub where we'd taken him the night before he started back in 2017. It seemed an appropriate way to bookend his whole experience and we owed him one. The poor lad got his degree during the first lockdown and all the restaurants were shut....a takeaway from the local Chinese had to suffice, but we were blooming grateful to be able to do that at least.

Now our adult son has inherited his parents dislike of the being centre of attention and he's not very keen on having lots of photos taken either [that comes straight from his Mother...unless we're in fancy dress and then we don't give a monkeys!]. The uni had provided two huge deckchairs and the big orange Chester lettering which the others attending were having great fun with. However, as I suspected, it really wasn't his scene nor was having any official ones taken either.

No problem though as I had remembered that he'd spoken fondly of a cobbled side street nearby where he and his mates had their Peaky Blinders photos taken https://gnatbottomedtowers.blogspot.com/search?q=peaky+blinders. It proved to be the perfect spot just near the cathedral, but quiet and no other people. A clutch of photos later followed by a very polished ceremony which was live streamed so my parents could watch too means our Chester chapter is now closed. The uni held 11 ceremonies last week to catch up with the backlog of 2020 and 2021 and we were the final one. I'm just so pleased that all the young people were able to experience the full fat version rather than a version compromised by Covid restrictions. A happy day for us all.

I don't often share much about my family, so it'll be back to my normal weirdness tomorrow!

Arilx