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Camilla McConnell (W 07) is still living and working in Laikipia, but reports “no great breakthroughs towards fame and fortune (yet)” but will let us all know as soon as she does!
Dudley Lucas (Sc 59) continues to wrangle black mambas, spitting cobras and puff adders from various premises in and around Kilifi “in all instances, without harm to snake or person”. His last trip to the UK coincided with the ‘Beast from the East’. Despite the -9C temperature, he was able to see his brother, Nick Lucas (Sc 65), and Tony Chandler (Ldr 59). He is currently in the US, spending time with another brother,
Beginning with news from Australia, Richard Hopps (Ldr 59) claims that his only news is “the same as it has been for the last few years; I’m still around to write this!” He is, however, the proud possessor of a newly-reconstructed knee!
John Collier (S 70) was in rude health the last time I saw him, at his Easter Sunday lunch at his ranch just outside Perth.
I also had lunch with Anthony Dale (D 52) and Charles Allen (B 54), this time in Melbourne, both of whom were in fine form – “even if, a little slower on their pins!” – and Ian Hardy (Sc 78) in Perth. Ian is anything but slow, having managed to raise $2million for his college’s renovations.
Clive Minton (Lx 53) continues his lifelong interest in ornithology, which in the last 12 months has taken him to the USA, UK, the Netherlands and Kenya, as well as most of the states in Australia. He is still involved in the publication of scientific papers. He keeps in regular touch with Mike Preeston (Lx 64), David Hollands (N 51) and Charles Allen.
I had a lovely email from Terry Keeling (Sc 54), who wrote: “We continue to do much the same as
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exercise, reading and studying. Last year we were in Europe, ranging from Finland, through Poland to Germany and Belgium. Exercise includes tennis and Pilates, as well as a lot of walking. Reading includes maintaining my languages hobby, so both French and German novels. And this year I am trying to improve my German to the extent of understanding German films. So far so good. I studied a little Polish, but there’s little demand for it in Melbourne, so the second class was cancelled. Next year we plan to be in Sweden, but I expect we shall visit Germany as well and possibly France.”
Since he last contributed news to the magazine, Tim Hamlyn (C 96) has “had two children and moved to Melbourne!” He is also a very convivial host, particularly to your correspondent on his frequent trips to Melbourne.
Sarah Strachan (D 95) organised the Melbourne OOs’ drinks party brilliantly, has moved house and continues to expand her business teaching children with autism.
Apparently, Anthony Bayley (S 63) is now semi-retired and fully settled on the Mornington Peninsula. However, he has been cycling through Belgium and
Simon Lucas (Sc 62), in Granada Hills and Richard Butterfield (Ldr 59) in Springboro.
From Nairobi, comes news from the Grammaticas family. Dominic Grammaticas (B 86) continues to live with wife Pippa in Nairobi, where they have been for 20 years. He runs a family business, Governors Camp, in Kenya and Rwanda with brother Justin Grammaticas (B 89) and sister Ariana Grammaticas (K 95). OOs passing through Nairobi are encouraged to look them up and drop in. Damian Grammaticas (B 88) is a BBC Correspondent in Brussels.
checking out vineyards near Bordeaux, and is about to “undertake a 12,000 kms trip into the outback, in search of remote golf courses and dinosaur bones, before returning home in October for the sailing season!”
Dr Rob Bramley (C 82) is one of only five South Australian OOs. He left the UK when he was 22 and has now been an Australian citizen for 23 years. Whilst he followed England’s progress in the football World Cup, with Australia long since knocked out, he found himself keen on Belgium doing well (for no easily explainable reason!). Rob wrote to me during the group stages, so we don’t know how he rationalised the third/fourth play-off!
Tim Sharratt (Sn 67) writes that his next event of interest, later this year, is to continue the voyage he began in Antigua in 2016, helping friends to sail their catamaran. This time he will be travelling from Apataki in French Polynesia to Vava’u, Tonga. It is another chapter in a long and slow passage to Australia, and helps to satisfy the ongoing wanderlust that he developed whilst at Oundle.
There is no rest for Chris Del Mar (Sc 67), who despite approaching the grand age of 70, is still working as Professor of
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