An old school friend of mine, Greg Joughin, made a guest appearance on stage at the Gaiety and a few memories flashed into my mind, not least the above photo from a geography field trip around 1974.
That was the first year that Greg entered the Parish Walk, and as I was under age and the oldest in my class, he must have also been. He took part four times altogether, his best performance was to reach Lezayre as a 19 year old. He also ran the Manx Mountain Marathon several times.
Greg was always a talented artist and musician and myself and another friend, who now holds a senior position in the civil service, were going to act as roadies and support musicians for the band that Greg formed! He is in the centre of the photo above and the person who had as much chance of being a musician as John Terry has of not swearing for two minutes, is on the right.
Greg was not always the most diligent in the sixth form and as with several other far more intelligent people than me, resorted to copying my history homework. But as out lovely history teacher noted: "Joughin. You've even copied Lambden's spelling mistakes!".
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