A rather handsome man with dark red hair, and smudges of black eyeliner around his eyes, took his place at the end of the table.

‘Well hello there Rousse!’ he smiled with a great degree of familiarity.

‘Here we go again’ I despaired under my breath. ‘Another former student who expects me to remember him’. He smiled and waited.

Then inspiration struck! This was not a former student, but one of the old EdCM crew.

‘You’re Robinson, Graham Robinson, aren’t you?’ I suggested. My response impressed everyone at the table, not least myself.