Sunday 22 March 2015

'The girl with the boots' on Strawberry Hill...


My baby graduated from her masters degree...Who'd have known it...She's a Master of Arts in Gothic Culture, Subculture and Counterculture, specialising in literature...

That cheeky little golden haired girl that used to ask for just one more bedtime story, again and again until I'd read so many that we'd both fall to sleep...The growing bump that I'd do the same to  then feel the acknowledging internal kick; the stroke of a butterflies wing ...The one about whom the wise old lady in the library told me I was doing the best thing ever when she spotted us piling up her pushchair with heaps of books...She knew...

...and at the graduation supper in the gothic splendour of those beautiful rooms on Strawberry Hill with smooth jazz playing, when others excitedly spotted the one they'd named 'the girl with the boots'...The Doc Martens, one laced with purple, the other leopard print, the faux leopard fur and Bill Murray's face on her bag...We toasted with her boyfriend and patted her back and ours too, full of pride for our hardworking clever (and stylish) girl...We really knew too...



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  1. Well done mum and dad you obviously did all the right ground work. Congratulations to the baby girl!

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    1. Oh thank you. She worked really hard for it...but it's nice to think that we may have sowed some little seeds of inspiration that helped her on her way.
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  2. you must be so very proud! Congratulations to her and to you :) Lovely celebrations in your photos :)

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    1. Thanks Karen. We are. It was a great one...lovely music and food good weather and then we our celebration.
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  3. Oh, Debby, you did Her as proud as she did you. Congrats to all......what a sunny future she has in store for her.

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    1. I hope so Steph. She's working for a bit now but planning to do her doctorate next...But she keeps writing all the time.
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  4. Congratulations to the girl with the boots and for her parents.
    I'm sure it was a perfect day.
    Have a good week!

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    1. It was fun that other girls loved her boots and gave her the knickname Montse. Yes t was a perfect day.Hope you have an amazing week, too.
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  5. Proud indeed and you have every right to be Debby, Congratulations to her and to you as her mama. I know all the hard work that goes into getting a Masters [my girl will have hers in May] and it does require a lot.
    Oh, and those boots....I want a pair ;)

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    1. Oh congratulations to your girl too Tracey (and her lovely mama.) I know, they are great boots, I was tempted to wear my Doc Martens...but thought I'd better do my demure mother bit.
      Have a great week,
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  6. Oh, Debby, I get the shivers just thinking how proud you and H must be our your little girl! What a smart, beautiful, unique, ambitious hard-worker she must be! Congratulations to all of you!

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    1. Thank you Emily. It was a great day she worked.We were proud especially especially as a she worked hard and a lot of the other's receiving their Masters were much older than Hannah.
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  7. Congratulations how clever!!!! Juxxx

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  8. Congratulations! That sounds like an amazingly interesting area of study.

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    1. Thank you Jane. I find myself now reading lots of the books that were on her reading list that I hadn't previously done so. Like The House with the Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne...I now love that book.
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