I wrote the OP a year ago, and it popped up on my timeline to remind me that that Tempus bloke, he like a bird. Many friends' kids have been packed off in this last week and I look with bemusement that it's now the same time since I started at uni as it was then to the end of the second World War, and that I am the same age as my father was then when his youngest child went to uni.
I also note with some worry my comment in reply to Gonnagle who has not signed on, replied to emails or other attempts to contact him for some time. Hoping you are ok and get in contact soon, old friend.