I really should have explained "H'ordeuvres" when I posted it a couple of days ago. Well this is the reason for being there, it was for AM's Open University graduation ceremony at The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. AM is the lovely young lady in the lower left who seems to want to make eye contact with me. Well done her and all the other graduates. The collective amount of effort in that hall needed to not only acquire a degree, but to do it at home, away from the four walls of academia, often alongside a full-time job and family commitments is quite staggering. It was a nice day, it has to be said.