Thanks for all the replies
They're all very helpful.

As for not knowing him too well, I guess I knew him pretty well and you know, he was a mate. Just one who had the capacity rub people up the wrong way easily - he mellowed out massively in the last few years too.

I've been talking to some of my old uni mates and that's been pretty useful.

I'm going to take your advice and have a think about this later.

In the meantime I'm going to get shitfaced and see where that takes me.

I would offer you cake, but I seem to have run out.

P
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Fri 29 Aug 2008, 21:07, Reply)