A follow on, having been prompted to visit the alumni section of Aston University’s web site, I stumbled across the gifte shoppe. This is full of tragic stuff – I mean, why would want the university scarf while you are a student, let alone want to buy one after you have left?
But Aston’s alumni shop is a poor sad thing, when contrasted with the awesome range of crap available from Jax’s alma mater. I have featured the lapel pin, this picture is a copy (i.e. not resized) of the one on their page offering the lapel pin for sale. I assume the real pin isn’t blurred, but this gives you a flavour for the overall quality of the exercise.
If you went to university, and were sobre for long enough to remember which one, then do drop by your alumni shop and see if there is something really nasty there you can give to someone you really don’t like much, otherwise, get off to Durham, and choose from their excellent gifts for all tastes, especially none.
Thinking about it, maybe I ought to get Jax a new t shirt to replace her dilapidated Cuth’s t shirt before it actually falls to pieces. This one looks appropriate tacky – “go to Durham, train as a kidnapper”.
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