Forty years after
graduation five ex-residents of the bijou Edinburgh University student
accommodation known as Lloyd George House (LGH) reassembled, with wives in tow,
in the unlikely location of Gosforth, West Cumbria, on the eve of the wedding
of a fifth LGH alumnus, and gathered in the West Lakes Hotel for drinks and a
meal (the starters putting the world mackerel population at risk and the
instantaneously re-established banter putting the other diners to flight); back
in the bar over coffee some quieter reflection was going on ranging from
nostalgic recollection of student days’ antics to post-retirement angst that
rejoices at our footloose freedom but worries over our physical capacity to
enjoy it to the full.
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