The Big day...

...came and went in a bit of a blur. I guess that's what happens with things like this, everything builds up to a single day, and then before you know it, it's all over.

The morning dawned bright and sunny and beautiful. After brunch at the cafe in St. Margarets, we headed along to the Sheldonian for the ceremony. It was very nice to see everyone there with their parents, walking past the men with bowler hats guarding the gates and into the Universities ceremonial hall.



It was a lovely ceremony, the Chancellor of the University Lord Patten was in attendance and gave a lovely speach. He was outshone however by both of the MBA speakers - Rachel Wagner and Graeme Glover who between them managed to sing and mention Hugh Grant!

Then we were each called to the front and shook the hand of the Dean Prof Anthony Hopwood.

Beautiful. It would not have been a proper celebration without the odd bottle of champagne or four which were dutifully shaken up and opened. The ceremony was followed by a reception at the business school and then dinner and drinks afterward.

It's funny, it's (almost) all over and yet it hasn't sunk in yet... maybe over the next week or two it will become more real and then I'll know that it's time to move on, to move back to real life. *sigh*