Congratulations are in "Order, Order!"

After Thomas FB Briant became the first member of the Briant family to ever receive a degree (My Dad has a degree in fashion and culture ha ha ha, he told me this once when he was drunk because I had a go at him for wearing Pyjama bottoms out of the house.) Any way my sister Claire continued the tradition today and received a 2:1 in history and politics. The gulf between my degree result and Claire's is not as large as one thought: Though Claire did do a degree in History and Politics and not running and climbing like me.

So congratulations Claire, who is currently sunning herself and pickling her liver in Thailand the lucky lucky thing.

In reference to the future Mark is next to go forth and take on University, I fully envisage Marks PHD on "Social constraints of young gay intellectuals in the modern workplace" will not only be heartfelt but award winning and revered by his many peers. Mark will go on to lecture at UCL for 15 years, dabbling in a three year period where he drank nothing but whisky and ate only glacier cherries, there will be an attempt to terminate his position as head of department after he was found befriending a young Brazilian arts student called Rodriguez, He will later be quitted of any wrong doing as Rodriguez fled the country and was therfore unable to provide sufficient evidence. He will finally quit it all and move to France to live with his partner where they will live in isolation for 6 wonderful years. It will be here that Mark writes some of his greatest works.

Well done Claire and well done Mark by the looks of things...