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www attend more events throughout the year. Meanwhile, Holly has finished her Teach First placement and is now in recruitment. Knowing the two sisters as I do, they are having a great time living together.
Another North Yorkshire OO to move to London is Florence Lister (D 15). Having recently finished a gap year touring Asia for five months, she left the famous fat rascals and tea rooms of Betty’s in Harrogate to join the Ocado graduate scheme in September. Her fellow Dryden leaver, Rosie Johnson (D 15), is going down the psychology route and is currently undertaking a placement in Preston. She is building up excellent research and experience, before applying for a clinical psychology PHD and we wish her all the best in her application.
By contrast, Michael Oakley (Lx 62) has completed 40 years as HM Coroner in North Yorkshire and decided it is time to draw stumps, so he has now retired from all judicial appointments. He is often asked how retirement is and the response is: “I wonder how I had time to work prior to that time.” During the year he has
visited Oundle each term to see grandchildren Guy and Fenella Farrand (in Bramston and Sanderson respectively), who are making the most of all that is on offer at Oundle. He reports meeting up with Iain Laird (Lx 62) several times during the year and spent a very pleasant 10 days in northern Scotland fishing earlier in the year, but sadly with a complete lack of fish, which seems to be the norm nowadays. He continues to visit son William Oakley (Lx 92), who has now been running Cobblers Cove in Barbados for five years and who has had visits from many OOs during the season. Michael quite often sees Roger Marshall (St A 62) at various functions across North Yorkshire. Part of Michael's retirement energies are now given to assisting fundraising for Antibiotic Research UK, which was a charity started in North Yorkshire. It is the only charity providing funds for scientists and the medical profession to research solutions to enable humanity to combat resistance to antibiotics for the immediate future, until new ones become available.
Michael Brook (Sn 71) also confirms that retirement is easily occupied, with quite a lot of writing, including articles for various game- shooting magazines, especially BASC’s Shooting & Conservation. He has also been busy encountering a raft of OOs, including Nick Jackson (Sc 66). As complete strangers, they struck up a conversation at a local shoot and it did not take long to tease out his past! Other shoot sightings have included Ross Thain (Lx 83) and Andrew Gloag (Sn 81), the latter whilst shooting partridge in September and then at a charity dinner in November. Graham Merriam (C 72) was a further sighting at a lunchtime drinks party, prior to Graham heading for a ferry to deliver furniture to his son in Germany and then visiting World War One battlefields in France and Flanders. Michael also reports that Brian Bowser (Sn 71) has had a challenging time following a life-threatening dose of peritonitis, but after some drastic treatment, he is now thrashing the daylights out of golf balls around his local course. Finally, Michael reports
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