Just back from the gowning rooms where I've picked up a gown, hood and mortar board.

It's graduation this week and next and the engineers turn this morning.

I'm a bit more excited about this than I expected to be. Mainly because it's actually the first time I've done this. I've attended a couple of friend's graduations before, in the audience. This time, however, I'll be on the stage and wearing a gown with my proper colours and so on.

I've never done this before because my graduation ceremony wasn't held until November by which time I was on the other side of the world. It always irked me that they couldn't have been in July as these are as I would love to have attended.