It probably hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that I’ve not been in the best of spirits of late. Believe me, if you’ve noticed then imagine how the people I love have felt. Despite getting my degree and my prize (BTW only 10-12 of about 500 students got a prize and I was the only student on my course to get one so it’s quite something), I still feel like a failure because I have been unable to find work. So, I have today started on a post graduate course that has some income attached because, not to put too fine a point on it, we need to eat and pay our bills.

These delightful flowers were brought round yesterday evening by one of my close friends in celebration of my degree and they looked so glorious in the limited light of a nasty, rainy, windy, gloomy day that their very presence has lifted my spirits. Thanks Sharon.

The best bit about yesterday was my Mum’s comment as she hugged me “bye bye” because they left this morning while I was at Uni. She said “this has been the best day EVER”. (She was crying when she said it too). That made me feel as though even if I hadn’t made any kind of positive difference to my own life, at least I’d done so for the people I love.