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So, having just finished announcing Nick’s appearance on the scene I feel a need to once more update the found / not found list.

So here is an edited NOT found list removing all the names I have found and then adding what information I have about the remaining folks.

• Marcus Burrows
• Jonathan Collingwood
• Inigo de Alvear - I guess back in Spain
• Paul Doherty
• Michael Doyle
• Nicholas Edward - confirmed found and in Bristol as suspected
• Philip Embley – have contact via his wife
• Patrick Farrell
• Alonzo Fearnside – technically found his mum, but Alonso never replies to messages left or texts.
• Julian Fisher - turned up at the funeral. Appears to have bee in contact with Thommo all along.
• Richard Ganley
• David Illingworth
• Paul Jervis -
• Iain Knox - known to be a psychiatric nurse in Devon/Cornwall but appears to be ex-directory
• James Lauderdale
• Andrew Lea
• Ricardo Matesantz - Replies via Friendsreunited under the pseudonym of Jim Bird
• John McCafferty - found. Now a maths teacher.
• Paul O’Brien - one eMail response in 2002 and nothing since
• Kevin O’Hara
• Paul Openshaw
• Andrew Ransom - His brother says he’s in Spain but no answer to the email address or phone number supplied.
• Ronald Sam
• Sundeep Singh-Bal - still in Sheffield I’m told
• Humphrey Uddoh – in contact via Facebook.
• Mark Young

I continue to be amazed by the folks that turn up.

I have just finished replying to:

• Nick Edward

… with the date of the eMail he was replying too was dated May 2008 – so either he doesn’t check his emails that often or he’s a bit of a horder like me.

Anyway, Nick is as I’d heard, living and working Bristol though not as a lawyer but as owner of his own company installing aerials and satellites (amongst other stuff). So, there we have it. Some 31 years since I left MSM and this year has been one of the saddest and joyous in a long time.

Sad that we have all lost a friend – a comrade in arms – a fellow trouble maker – a fellow cheeky chappie.

Joyous that after years of wondering I wasn’t let down by catching up with 6 of my ex school chums – brief though that was.