Not a silly walk – just a slow procession.

29010-0908Just in case you missed all the processional pomp and ceremony around the Guildhall and Bath Abbey today……it was graduation day for a lot of students at the University of Bath and a lot of proud parents busy taking photos of their offspring.

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Your Director was trying to catch glimpses of the three personalities getting Honorary Doctorates from the University – starting this morning with Sir Bobby Charlton.

I couldn’t resist telling him we could have done with his help against Iceland.

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Bath’s former MP Don Foster

 

Later in the day l said hello to Bath’s former MP Don Foster and swapped a few stories about our joint hometown of Weston super Mare with John Cleese.

He was born at Uphill where l went to school.

 

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A wave for Bath from John Cleese.

 

Lovely to see everyone in such a good humour and that goes for the University’s Chancellor HRH Prince Edward too.

Pictured here conferring an Honorary Degree upon John Cleese.

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Well done Bath University and congratulations to all.