Posting six hundred odd photographs here on Saturday, pictures of old friends caught the eye, among them a picture of Tony and Dave.

Tony died in 2003. Dave never ages. The memory of them that lingers is being sat with them in a Torquay café in September 1975. Rod Stewart’s Maggie May filled the air.

It was late September and we were definitely back at school and the song caused a fourteen year old sitting with his five pence cup of coffee to ponder what it might be like simply …