Sunderland University

Today’s university open day was at Sunderland, at less than an hour’s drive away easily the closest contender for some student loan company cash, where a well organised event enabled us to check out the St Peter’s Campus next to the National Glass Museum and the more central City Campus, the latter housing some impressive sports science equipment; we each got involved in the demonstrations there, testing my coordination (not bad for an old ‘un), my wife’s balance (pretty good walking backwards in heels) and the force of the boy’ s left jab (definitely sufficient, as my dad would say, to knock the skin off a rice pudding).