The Gorse Fox ws up early and dressed in his finest. Old Bill gave him a lift to the station and he started his journey up to St Albans. The journey across to Brighton was accompanied by some Simon Evans' Podcasts. Brighton had a 30 minute layover... which gave him a chance to grab a bacon roll and some coffee the the almost empty train left to take the Gorse Fox to St Albans. He used this time to catch up on some "Ted Lasso" episodes that he had downloaded to the iPad. The time whizzed by and the train pulled in to St Albans at 11:41, exactly on schedule. The taxi was waiting, and a few minutes later the Gorse Fox was walking into school.
As before, we were greeted with beer and canapés and accompanied by a singing from the school choir. It was especially nice to see that girls had finally been allowed into the school and were part of the choir. The annual old boys over-65s lunch was as interesting and stimulating as ever. Old friends - Richard Butt, Laurence Rossiter, Paul McNally, Paul Tominey, Andrew Mower, and many more all added to the camaraderie. A film loop was playing showing photos of the school from our era. The Gorse Fox realised that he was featured in several of the pictures and has asked for copies.
We eventually had to call it a day and head back. Richard Butt travelled back on the train as far as Farringdon and we continued to chat. We have concluded that it is time that we tried to reconvene the "Band of Brothers"... and the Gorse Fox has volunteered to arrange something. (Heaven help him).
The Silver Vixen and Ellie collected the Gorse Fox from Bognor Regis station just after 18:30. It had been been a great day.
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