I think its remarkable and strangely wonderful that so many years later people from that course still want to meet up and chew the cud (or whatever else they have on the menu).
I'm always happy with reunions and looking back that is because I have always (hopefully) valued the people I have found myself with. Some time ago we had a school reunion and that brought back fond memories as well of people I counted as friends.
Hopefully what I have written means that I was always friendly and approachable and I like to think that is a trait that I still have. I like being with people in small groups. The converse is that I dislike being in crowds when I feel totally insignificant.
The school reunion was an easy and comfortable one because everyone remembered everybody else (that incidentally is also close to the name of one of my favourite albums from 1974 which isn't too long after the time I am writing about. That album by Barclay James Harvest is Everyone is Everybody Else).
The journalism reunion was a little more difficult and I know some people struggled to remember me. It was made more difficult of course because the female members of the course had in the main changed their surnames. I think we had all put on some timber and that was five years ago. So it will be interesting to see who brings along a carer, a Zimmer frame or other handy implements.