1964 - 1970

Turner

Going to Cambridge University on a football tour in around 68/69. Brasher was in charge. We played St. Catherine's & Selwyn colleges. We stayed in a Youth Hostel in Cambridge and one lad was smoking in bed during lights out causing total chaos. The touring party consisted of 5th & 6th year players. Paul O'Shea would probably have been the captain. We drove up in cars if I recall correctly. Think another teacher on this tour might have been Chapman who played for Westcombe Park RFC. Gave me good grounding for future rugby tours!

A lifetime in Marine Insurance.

Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cann Road W12

11 Wulfstan Street, East Acton W12 and then moved to Highcliffe Drive, Roehampton SW15 in 1966.

Old Oak Primary with Alan Inkpen & Colin Pell

Hanging Hill Lane, Hutton, Essex

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April 1978 - Upney Lane, Barking, Essex

Rugby : Member of Rosslyn Park RFC : 1971-1980
Brentwood RFC : 1995 to date
Former Youth Chairman & Committee Member of Brentwood RFC.
Long term member of Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)
Former member : Thrift Green Trotters ( now Brentwood Running Club) : Finisher London Marathon 2006, Abingdon/Southern Counties Marathon 2006, London 2007, numerous half-marathons & 10ks , Essex Way Trail Relay Race. Raised funds for Trinity Hospice, Clapham & St. Francis Hospice in Havering-atte-Bower, Essex.
Enjoy foreign travel but hate airports!!

Brentwood Rugby Club ( I also check for the results of Rosslyn Park RFC & QPR )

Scandinavian Noir, Travel Programmes.

Crime novels.

Most things make me laugh. Brought up on "Around the Horne", "Do not Adjust your Set" & "Monty Python".

Always amused that foreigners do not understand British irony.

Daily Telegraph ; Sunday Telegraph; Ramblers Magazine

The world as it is in 2023!!! Much prefer the good old days.

You can still find "Till Death us do Part" on the telly somewhere on Freeview and how things have now changed.

For rugby on the TV, it is now a tick-box all-inclusive presentation - normally a woman, a lesbian, a person of colour, possibly a trans-gender (bonus ball!), a gay man. We just want to watch the game - not be subjected to a "Question Time" mixed bag panel. It is the same for football. Gets more and more frustrating as you get older and this nonsense is creeping in to every aspect of your life.

Blues, smooth jazz & ragga metal.