"Lizzie, just as a matter of interest I thought you said (with some pride I thought) your daughter was studying for an Open University Degree on her own about the History of Art?

Yup, she is. Good to see you have your 'Cross Referencing Lizzie' book out. I've no problem if she wants to do a degree or if she doesn't. I don't judge her on that.

"Now have you told her Most degrees are no longer worth the paper they're written on, but those who print the paper don't want you to know this."

Yup, I sure have. She knows it too. However, she researched the OU and decided she'd love to study things in even more depth, purely for the love of learning. She does this as and when she can afford it, so she'll have no debts at the end of it all. She's very clued up on the fact that it more than likely won't get her a better job, but Nonny loves to learn, always has done, always will do, it's been there since she was born, that natural desire and she's doing it for that reason, not because she's being 'told' to do it.

She'd never judge a nurse on whether she had a degree or not though, because she has the intelligence to know just how wonderful our nurses are, and that the best nurses are those who've years of experience, not those just out of University with bits of paper that so often mean nothing anymore.

My daughter's an intelligent person, Dave. I expect you'll soon have to start a Cross Reference book for her too.