Calvin is acquitted on all charges

Today I received my A Level results. I got an A in Physics, Maths and German and a B in AS Further Maths. This is sufficient to get into Imperial College, my first choice university. It’s a strange day with some people terribly happy and some people devastated. Two of my friends will be unable to go to their universities of preference until some apparently anomolous results are sorted out. They are both significantly better students than myself.

Kudos to Ben Youd, however, who got four As and a distinction. That’s just madness. I think his subjects were Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Art, which is all the more impressive since none of his subjects end in the word ’studies’.

Today we also received the good news of the birth of Joshua Trinder (8lb 10oz) to Paul and Ida. So there was good news from more than one direction.