Proud father moments

PFMs (proud father moments) come along only now and then, but just like British buses, when they do, they come in threes.

PFM #2 was last night, when Tom was on the panel at his alma mater, Manchester Grammar School, for Question Time. As Jane noted, he was the only panellist without a Wikipedia or other weblink.

Afterwards, the five of us went to the Rusholme Curry Mile, to Spicy Hut, http://www.spicy-hut-rusholme.co.uk/ for an excellent meal. The food was great, as was the service and atmosphere. For me, the occasion was also added to by reading, on a plaque on the wall, that the owner received an award from http://mcwhirterfoundation.org/ for bravery in 2000, when he helped save policeman caught by a riotous mob. I hope that we will go it his restaurant again: I certainly hope so.

PFM#3 was around 10am today, when an email pinged into his inbox to say that he had won the 2013 Philip Geddes prize for the most promising journalist at Oxford University http://www.geddesprize.co.uk/. Philip was a student at St Edmund’s Hall who was killed at the age of 24 by an IRA bomb at Harrods: he had stayed in the danger area trying to get a story.

Of course, I have had many more PFMs, including a good number from each of my daugher’s, and will have plenty more to come from each, but since last night/this morning has been the first time Tom has come for a flying visit home during term time, it seems fair to blog about him.