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www AlanBurdon-Cooper(C61).Archie claims to be less active than he used to be, but then reports regular bike rides, a fishing trip, frequent visits to St John's College, Cambridge, for dinners and functions, and a trip to the Sibelius Festival in Lahti, Finland, which was due to be repeated in September!
Chris Bond (Sn 55) wrote me a short note including reference to a Russian wife and a battle to get on top of his garden.
David Stevenson (N 51) is another who does not appear to be slowing down. He is now a ‘retired’ specialist in tropical medicine, for which the Oundle workshop weeks helped him understand bricklaying etc when erecting hospital buildings in Africa. He is an Honorary Fellow in Population Health Sciences at Edinburgh University and plays bagpipes at ceilidhs. He was due to play at 20 ceilidhs during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August.
Tony Woods (Sc 47) appears to be the oldest OO in Scotland to write in. He has had to give up playing golf due to knee problems, but is still a
Another year flies by and, after 17 years in Wales, I'm beginning to feel a bit naturalised. I think having two children helps – that and my continued volunteering at the local rugby club. Perhaps next year I will brave learning the Welsh National Anthem and join in the singing at the Principality Stadium!
Like many of my fellow correspondents, the difficulty comes in thinking of newsworthy items. Whilst it has been a busy year for work and family, I always find that I'm scratching my head for nuggets of news. On the work front, as a forensic material scientist, I visited Australia for two weeks, investigating problems on a multi-billion-dollar energy project. This was undoubtedly a high. I also had the most bizarre multi-million-dollar arbitration, where the other side
veryactivememberoftheEdinburgh MG Club, which he says involves playing about with his own MG and those belonging to other members. Fortunately, he can still get in and out of these cars!
Finally, my news. I retired after 36 years at KPMG in 2018, but now seem as busy as ever, with non- executive directorships, holidays, golf, tennis and doing things that have needed doing around the house for years! My wife and I hired a chalet for four weeks’ skiing this year and during that time hosted our daughter, Emily (K 14), and son, Charlie (St A 17). Charlie was joined for his week by friends including Harry Stansfeld (St A 17). Emily is about to graduate in Paediatric Nursing from Leeds University and to start work in London. Charlie is also at Leeds, studying Civil Engineering. Both of them see many of their year group from Oundle – but there are too many to list.
I keep in touch with David Bevin (Sn 79) and Robert Yeo (Sn 78), and we try to meet annually. Dave is slowly winding down his set-design
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failed to turn up! The arbitrators cross-examined me instead. On the home front, I enjoyed my annual sailing trip to Norfolk, this time with
business,butRobertthinks retirement from the property business is a few years off for him. I also saw Dave Whiteside (Sn 79) for the first time in 20 years last year. He is living in Herefordshire, which is not close to any regular route I take to and from Scotland.
Last week my wife and I had a very enjoyable dinner with Clive Anderson (S 77) and his wife, Fee, and in August we were at the Oban Ball with Mark Wakeford (St A 84) and his wife, Nicky, plus many others.
My brother, James Bainbridge (Sn 82), and his wife, Sophie, were due to visit us at the end of August on their way back from Harris and Lewis. He continues to live in Gloucestershire, enjoy his fishing and shooting, and works as a partner in Carter Jonas.
I also see Alastair Burns-Atkinson (G 81) in Edinburgh often and our wives and daughters are also great friends. I venture out on the golf course with him, but he is far too fit for me to cycle with him. Alastair has been with DYSIS Medical as CEO/COO for a number of years.
up to 26 participants, and caught up, as I do every year, with Peter Gilman (D 88). The weather was perfect and the company outstanding. I had the pleasure of watching the touring Cambridge University rugby team play in South Wales and found myself wondering if Oundle might ever tour here again - as they did with Terry Cobner.
Enough of my musings and now on to the news I have gathered thanks to my correspondents.
Steven Thomas (G 69) is undoubtedly mentioned elsewhere in this magazine, as 50 years ago he was captain of Oundle shooting and this year he attended the OO Troubleshooters’ 50th Anniversary Dinner at Oundle on 11th May, when he met too many OOs to list. The dinner was preceded by an afternoon in glorious sunshine on Elmington
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