Happier times?

An old friend has just posted a photo of us on Facebook.

He also wrote, "Simon Clark, Director of Forest, in happier times."

It was taken over 35 years ago when we were at Aberdeen University.

To avoid doubt, I'm the one with the full head of hair and pronounced curvature of the spine.

Oddly enough I have no recollection of the production.

The look the girl is giving me is familiar, though. That happened quite a lot, on and off stage.

Update: I have just been reminded that other performers in the above production included former Sky News reporter Glen Oglaza; Frances Guy, UN women's representative to Iraq, and former British Ambassador to Lebanon and to Yemen; and Tommy Sheppard, the SNP's new MP for Edinburgh East.

H/T Harry Aves who also featured (he's in the dress on the right of the picture).

Further update: Apparently it was the Aberdeen University Student Union Christmas panto (1979).

PS. I'm back at university tonight, Oxford not Aberdeen.

Mark Littlewood and I are at the Oxford Union where we are teaming up to oppose the motion ‘This House believes that the tobacco industry is morally reprehensible’.

I'll let you know how we get on.

Update: We lost 77-60. Gutted.