[joglynne]

Originally Posted by Russ

Left Leeds for the final time today. I cannot effing stand the city, or at least the road layout around the centre.

My daughter had been going to uni there since 2021, and although her finals were a few weeks ago, her tenancy ran up to today, so they all made sure they got their money's worth.

I'm amazed at how much she's changed as a person in those 4 years, she's always made me proud, but who she has now become got me quite emotional as we talked during the 6-hour drive home (I def won't miss the travelling for the end/beginning of semesters).

Up until uni, she'd never really left the small South Wales industrial village she's grown up in (other than for holidays etc), so I knew the transition into big city life would have an effect, but she's such a different person now.

In those 4 years she's managed to lose 5 stone through Slimmer's World (for about 5 years before she started uni her mother was a delivery driver for a Chinese takeaway so her diet was never the best), which was awesome, but she's now going to be joining me at the gym.

So all in all, a very tiring but emotional and proud day.

I feel so proud of you both. Over the years I have known you (albeit in our virtual world) so many things have happened. Your daughter is a credit to you and I am not surprised, with you as her father, at how she has changed into the young woman she is today.