Pride comes before a fall......

I was very proud of my daughter Gabi this week who, after three years of study has been awarded a 2.1 in Creative writing. (Although as we are reliably informed, the Yoof of today call it an upper second - is this a posh thing?)

Students have to go through many hardships, most of them financial but having to live in Huddersfield, I think qualifies.

All those years hunched over her laptop until breakfast, playing online games with other weirdos have been replaced with being hunched over her laptop until at least the early hours compiling her book of poetry is a pleasing sight.

She had to go to bed as she had a job in the morning ............ her "barista" job to go to.

Sadly, like most young people today, her employer decided to un-employ her with a bunch of non specific and trivial reasons.

It was a shame as she had been coming home so happy and has been making plans for the summer.


It is sadly the way of life that employers, like relationships in their early stages can mean that you get dumped for no reason when you think that things are going well.

Sadly, ces't la vie!

......and then she opened the letter saying you have two weeks jury service!!!!