Shooting Stars for Results Day

When I began this blog, it was all about myself and my three children applying for university.  So A-level results day loomed large in 2013. 

“Thank goodness that’s all over!”

But apparently it wasn’t.  

Our friends Mark and Adri  have gone to work abroad in Singapore leaving their son Kit in the UK to launch upon student life.  At the moment he is staying with us.  

He is hoping to study Product Design at Loughborough.

But last night was the darkest night, the one before results day. 

It was the kind of time when irritating adults tell eighteen-year-olds that although everything seems dark now, they should try to get everything in perspective and to see clearly.  There will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Fortunately, there was no need for us to do that to Kit.

Because a shower of shooting stars intervened.

When it was dark, we went out into the garden and lay on rugs, looking up at the heavens.

Because it was a clear night, we were able to glimpse the meteors zipping through the atmosphere.

The Perseid Meteor Shower certainly put everything in perspective.

The only drawback was that there was too much light at the end of the tunnel, and light pollution cut out many of the smaller meteors.

And the first piece of news this morning was that Kit had gained the place he wanted at Loughborough. 

He must have wished upon a star.