VCR. I was an early Poster assuring the stude that he had done nothing wrong but I was curious as to what the Controller's thoughts were; and by no stretch of the imagination was that a criticism. Maybe I've missed it in an earlier Post but what was the clearance given and was an aicraft on the runway part of the essential traffic? This is purely out of interest and please feel free to tell me to sod off and wind my neck in. I must confess that the last time I gave a "land after" (never did an "after departing") was 37 years ago with 2804 Mtrs of blacktop available.