Last weekend, like many other parents, I drove hundreds of miles and back again to deliver a slightly nervous 18yr old to begin a new independent life at University. But what could have been a slightly sad time for myself, brought nothing but proud joy at the situation which Evan has landed himslef in. Swansea is a wonderful location, the campus is between the sea and parks, and his course is an impressive 4 yr Master of Engineering degree. It was very much a last-minute enrolment and I think Evan was as relieved as I was when it all actually came true.
Well done Evan!
Below is a small album of snaps I took during the short time I was there, the lovely big airy room in the central campus halls, the view of the Union Building, the Mumbles, view from “salt” restaurant and a couple of low quality pics of Port Enyon and Oxwich bay, Gower.
Now that Evan finally has his Linux box connected to a decent wireless Internet service it won’t be long before he starts up his own blog – then again he may be too busy playing football and all those other things……
Andy Roberts is a writer who initiated DARnet. Contact me on aroberts@gmail.com or @aroberts on twitter
Yes, hopefully doing lots of other things with any Blogging squeezed to the margins:^)
Oh no it’s a picture of me! :/
I don’t have linux connected actually, it was hard enough getting windows working with step by step instructions. Proabably be a while before I get a blog up and running too.
I recommend Three Cliffs Bay and Rhossili Bay on the Gower Peninsula.
How lucky Evan is!
This takes me back long ago…
“Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was princess of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers and the windfall light.”
Yes, I like Bob Dylan to
Bob? No, Thomas!
Ah ouias, mais je blague. Je savais bien que c’etait Thomas Dylan, le mick qui chant avec ‘fernhill’ n’est-ce pas. J ai pas encore ecoute leur troisieme cd
http://www.bejo.co.uk/bejo/html/albWhili.htm
What a lovely moment for you both, Congratulations!
I didn’t know this band, Fernhill. Seems to get good reviews…
But good old ‘Fern Hill’ by Swansea kid Dylan Thomas is somehow more inspiring to me. I’ve been reading it for 20 years … and the older I get, the more sense it gets!
Listen to the whole poem read by Roy Noble: http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/dylanthomas/bibliography/pages/fern_hill.shtml
… and find such comments like “The poem fern hill is the most boring piece of writing I have ever read in my life. The last verse is so morbid and depresing that it made me want to scream.”
I enjoyed the Dylan Thomas Random Poetry Generator
at http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/dylanthomas/rpg/
“I was forgotten harshly
By the farmhands of the fisherman
Missing hazily on the moonless cobblestreets
On thoughts of statues
Where lovers lie proudly
And all the thin girls lie and hang”
Hi Andy
It is a sad and proud momment when your children leave home for Uni. My husband was also slightly saddened when he had to say goodbye to our son.
Jane