After passing the inviting ivy-clad
frontage of the Tankerville Arms on the A679 at Wooler many times on drives to
and from Edinburgh, I finally got to stay there as it forms this year’s base camp
for the now annual Lloyd George House old boys reunion walk, and tonight four
of us arrived ahead of tomorrow’s walk and spent a few hours in the bar, noting
that for three of us this week forty-five years ago was when we met as freshers
at Edinburgh University; actually it was a group of seven in the bar as we were
accompanied by our outsize ‘Tanky’ teddy bear key rings, an incongruous
addition to a table of grumpy old men.
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