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With a joke the other day from someone I knew when I was at Lancaster University — and in fact still do know now, this got me thinking about all of the people I was close friends with at Lancaster University, who through a combination of me being a lazy bugger, me being a dozy bugger, and me not realising that it’s much harder to keep in touch with people if you throw out your old address books, I’ve lost contact with.

So this is just a post I’m firing out into the stratosphere to see if any of these people are so narcissistic that they search for their own names online and find this post where I talk about knowing them at Lancaster University — where I graduated (just) in 1996, having arrived in Urswick block of Furness college in September 1993.

That “September 1993″ bit is impossible to forget, to be honest, because I still have a perspex keyfob on my keyring that I was given the day I arrived at University that reads “Lancaster University Autumn 1993 LUA Alumni”. Surprisingly, despite being made out of plastic-type stuff, it has lasted better than many other things (remind me to tell you about my Viagra keyring one day).

Anyway, so hopefully at some point in the future — maybe not now, maybe not for several months, maybe next year — at least one of these people is going to come across this site — or be directed to it by someone they know — and hopefully get in touch.

The roll of honour doesn’t include everyone I know, because time, tide and quantities of Marston’s Pedigree have knocked out some of the names from my list, so apologies for that if you’re someone I should have remembered (and haven’t already tried to contact elsewhere), but here’s some I can remember:

Will James

“something to do with computers”, as well as being obscenely tall.

Melanie Sibson

I can’t honestly remember. Probably studying history, as I’m fairly certain she revised with Loz “Lozzer” Wood from time to time.

Rachel Peregrine-Morgan

ah, Rachel of the snowball-proof hair. Biological Sciences. Zoider drinker.

Laurence Wood

history and politics. A really good mate, a good bloke, apart from supporting Crystal Palace. I shared a house with this chap for two years.

Steve Young

Environmental Science, and hiding under the bushes at the vet’s surgery when we fell asleep after a night out. The other lad I shared a house with for that two year period, Steve was into martial arts, drinking and rock music. Pretty much the same as me, except he did martial arts.

Michelle Hussey

Biological Sciences. I am still vaguely in touch with Michelle, as we normally communicate about once a year. I wish I could remember her friend Sue’s surname, though.

Sally Walkinshaw

possibly Ecology. Possibly Biological Sciences. Something like that. Wee Scottish Lassie (and she’d probably kill me for that if she didn’t have a good sense of humour).

Rosalyn Harrison

I’m not entirely sure, but I think there was a “Philosophy” in there somewhere. It’s been eleven years since I was last in touch with these people, after all…

Lucy Theaker

something to do with languages I think. Possibly French, or Linguistics. Or was that Kerry?

So, if you are one of these people, or you know one of these people, contact Crimestoppers and you could receive a community action trust reward. No, no, hang on, that’s not right. Contact me, you’ll not receive an award unfortunately, but I would be pleased to get in touch with any of them again. You could see the lovely beaming smile on my face, and that would presumably be reward enough, no?

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