Tim is still working as a consultant radiologist at the University Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is married to Jane who has truly found her vocation and is now Dean of Edmonton Cathedral. They have 4 children Mark age 23, Sarah 20, Rachel 18 and Peter 16. They were last seen in 2004 when they visited the UK and had a week staying in the National Trust cottages at Wallington. The Atkinson and Walker families visited them in Edmonton en route to a skiing holiday in 2002.

Seeing in my clinic recently the offspring of previous paediatric patients has made me realise that the years are rattling on!!! Some of you may recall my previous existence as a full time carer, but I am now back at work at Sheffield Children's Hopsital as part time consultant paediatrician. I specialise in child protection, am designated doctor for sudden infant deaths, as well as doing some general paediatrics. For a bit of light relief next year I will start additional sessions in palliative care in our soon to be completed new local children's hospice. (How's that for a balanced job eh?)

In June 2004, our daughter Helena lost her fight to type 1 spinal muscular atrophy at the age of three and a half, after packing in her days with more adventures and fun than many people have in a lifetime. To read about her, visit jtmsa.org.uk/inspirations.html (or do a Google search on Helena Huxham). Heli was a 'high maintenance' child and I learned that being a carer is a lot harder than medicine! We miss her hugely but she still brings us enormous pride and joy.

Jane (Peutrell) and Kath (Mannix) showed their true colours as fantastic friends during this difficult time.

I am still happily married to Max and our daughter Saskia (6) is a delight. I am now back to favourite activities - mountain climbing, skiing, cycling and am planning a charity cycle ride from London to Paris next year (any sponsors?)

The trouble is Dad still thinks he’s 25 and Mum still wishes he was! Often accused of sliding into a boring middle age, he defends himself by saying “there’s nothing better than a pair of slippers in front of the cricket and an early night”. You’ve heard of “grumpy old men”- Dad’s the prototype! The sick of King’s Lynn are still plentiful and more willing than ever to force their way past reception and into Dad’s surgery. Unfortunately he’s rarely there, spending a lot of time educating and entertaining UEA medical students.

Outside work Dad enjoys good wine, skiing, sailing, good wine, hockey, good wine, for some reason jogging and well…even cheap wine will do. He intends to run in this year’s Great North Run and would like to complete it in less time than it would take Chris Gutteridge (nee Banton) to do it twice ( mid life crisis? What mid life crisis?)

Mum has spent the last 25 years regressing into adolescence. She has finally rebelled and had the piercings and tattoos, the silicon is working out well but the botox tends to wear off far too quickly!!? Mum is still looking for a toy boy and accepts that she may be lumbered with Dad after all (23 years and counting). She has developed a (professional) interest in drug abuse and contraception – skills that may become somewhat under-utilised as she’s just moved practices to a retirement village towards the Norfolk coast. Mum’s concession to fitness has been to join a Gym but she will definitely not be taking up jogging or doing the Great North Run. Her main aim in life is trying to avoid being dragged on skiing holidays unless there is a luxury hotel room with an outdoor spa and a little man (not Dad) to take her ski boots off. She has tried to emulate our musical talents by taking up the piano.

The children are wonderful – The eldest, Megan has become the obligatory family medical student at Sheffield and Luke is still doing A-levels. Luke is not going to do medicine as it would “show a complete lack of imagination”. As we are writing this piece we would like to say what pleasant, charming, good looking and well adjusted young people we have become (and modest too!)

Megan and Luke

After 15 years in general practice near Morpeth, Northumberland, I decided to immigrate to Australia with my family for a “better life”. The trials and tribulations, and demands of the NHS when working in a 2 man practice became too much to bear. I now work in a 5 man practice in Shellharbour, NSW, which is on the south NSW coast, approximately 80 miles south of Sydney. We have beautiful countryside all around, fantastic surf beaches, and a very pleasant climate, which I suppose would be similar to the south of Spain. The children love the “outdoor life” which Australia offers and are very much involved in sporting activities and outdoor pursuits. I work in an area of workforce shortage, dealing with a clientele from a lower socio-economic background, as I did in the UK. I work for 4.5 days per week, and continue my favourite pastime of golf one afternoon each week. I have no “out of hours” work, but the practice opens 7 days per week, which involves working every 5th weekend, which leaves 4 weekends to watch rugby, golf, and the grass grow.

I am still married to Jill, ex Post Graduate Secretary from Dryburn Hospital. She has made a major career change since moving to Australia, and has become a fully fledged colour consultant and interior designer, running her own business. She is also teaching her subject in Sydney, and running a satellite school in our local city, Wollongong. We have 3 children. Jenni is nearly 18, and about to sit her A-level equivalents. She is attempting to follow in dad’s footsteps and is currently applying to medical schools. Emily, 16, is very creative (like Jill), and wants to work in fashion design. She is about to sit her GCSE equivalents. Andrew, 11, is a typical boy who sees school as irrelevant and loves his rugby, X box and TV!

Jill, myself and Andrew are returning to the UK for the reunion, leaving the girls to “house sit” with my practice manager. We are looking forward to seeing everyone again, although disappointed that some of my antipodean colleagues will not be there to catch up with. We did have a lovely weekend catching up with Loz, Liz and family in July last year when they came ‘down under’ on their world tour.

Can’t wait for a decent pint of beer in Newcastle (its all lager beer over here), and a good curry to start proceedings on the Friday night.

Okay, okay. I'm finally writing our year book entry, not so much because of Alan's pestering but because I've enjoyed reading everyone else's so much! Can't do the witty bit though. Still living in sunny Cumbria and life is good. Richard has been a partner in a Carlisle GP practice for 21years. Has a special interest in diabetes, is a GPSI in Ophthalmology and unfortunately still has "on call" as a police surgeon. I've had a career change from general practice to Breast Physician and have a wonderful job working 2 1/2 days a week with a great team at the Cumberland Infirmary.

We have 3 wonderful children. Hannah (20) is at Durham Uni studying Biological Sciences. Claire (18) is going to Newcastle Uni in September to study History. Jonnie (16) infuriates the girls by doing well in exams but spending all his time playing rugby and a variety of guitars. He may be the medic! We also have a lovely black lab called Millie who is far easier and less demanding than any of the children!

We all enjoy the outdoor life and love having the Lake District on our doorstep. We are also lucky to have an apartment in Switzerland which we escape to as often as possible. We are in denial that middle-age is "approaching"! I'm still playing netball and Rich pretends he's in a rock band with Jonnie! We have however both succumbed to that middle-age pastime of gardening, though for some reason Rich is in charge of "development", i.e. gets to play with JCBs and tractors, while I'm in "maintenance", i.e. weeding! We try to grow our own fruit and veg and Rich has plans to become self-sufficient. I could cope with hens, not so sure about the pig!

Looking forward to seeing you in September.

Twenty five years since graduation who would have thought it possible! I am still happily married to David with three delightful children Polly (17) Jessica (15) and Eddie (9). I worked for 10 years as a consultant obstetrician at Kings College hospital but got fed up with London and moved us all back to the North East where I worked for three years at the RVI. We lived in Wylam and I had a fantastic time but sadly the family did not settle too well so we moved back to London where I am now working as a consultant obstetrician at UCLH and loving every minute of it. As a family we like to travel and walk our very ancient border terrier Tilly. Looking forward to catching up at the reunion.

Work wise; partner still at Saville medical group in Newcastle. We look after 33,000 patients!! Including students at both Universities here in Newcastle. I remain committed to the NHS; I am PCT GP commissioning advisor for various services mainly Mental health, Drug+Alcohol and Learning Difficulties. My interest is psychosomatic disorders. I also continue to be crowd doctor at St James Park for my beloved Toon Army .

Play wise my first love continues to be music ,especially Indie Rock. I tend to catch a live band most weeks and am not always the oldest there. Have rediscovered the joys of real ale pubs since the smoking ban.

As mentioned above an incurable addiction to the Black and Whites, which unlike other addictions recently, hasn't been too exciting!! But as a true Geordie I believe we are on the verge of great things. I have great fun with my family. Wife Carol is well, Sophie age 16 has just finished GCSEs and has taken a keen interest in shopping ,Tom age 14 is keen on Triathlon, kite surfing, cooking and eating!! We have an allotment, with various degrees of commitment between us to it. I still ski, windsurf, swim and cycle as much as I can. We have a lads trip to the Alps every September cycling which is a highlight.

I miss Gary Brown very much and hope we can remember him when we meet up in September for our 25th year reunion.

After my spell on the Dark Side as PEC Chair, and like Anakin Skywalker, I am now a reformed Sith; rehabilitated as a full-time GP and LMC Chairman. Jacky and I had our Silver Wedding last year and as the children grow up we are enjoying more time together, walking in the Yorkshire Dales and now both beekeepers. Nigel (20) is at Durham studying Law, Tommy (18) has just left for a gap-year in Japan (hoping to meet Mario and Luigi) after which he will study Medicine at Barts (having had no offer from Newcastle...), leaving just Lizzie (14) at home with us. I have managed to suffer a characteristically obscure medical condition of portal vein thrombosis, but apart from taking warfarin seem able to carry on regardless.

We loyally support Huddersfield Town and as ever have ridiculous expectations for the coming season. The plum fixture will be the visit of the disgraced local rivals, Leeds United!

Greying, if not thinning, Dermatologist in Middlesbrough, ever more confused by things in the skin. Take consolation in examing others' blind spots. Ever more sceptical of professional bodies, but appreciative of GNER. Confused by mentors retiring and the passing of 1:2 on-call. Searching for today's heroes hidden in the "teams".

Identified a new vocation supporting the Boro. Amazed to have climbed Scafell Pike (though only drunk Kilimanjaro) and rediscovered my squash racket in the past 12 months. Is this a mid-life crisis?

With three women and an old house to support, grateful for the new contract.

Excited by the prospect of gardening, cooking and DIY. See 50 year reunion - to follow.

I remain a part time consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine in Newcastle, although my remit is community which even takes me over the Scottish Border! At home, Colin and I enjoy the stimulating environment of three teenage and one nearly teenage young people. Our oldest daughter has decided to apply for – guess what - medicine. We have expanded our links with the Christian Medical College Vellore which has allowed some wonderful trips to India. The most significant change in the last 5 years is that I was ordained deacon in July 2007 and I am now assistant curate at St Mary’s Church Ponteland, part time. It is really great starting a second career although time management can be challenging!

Family life is my main activity. Gill Rye (also Class of ‘82) and I have been married for nearly fourteen years, and we have two children: Billy – 7 and Nancy – 5. It has been a great delight to spend a lot of time with the children as they are growing-up.

My principal job is still a reader at Newcastle University where I teach psychiatry and evolutionary psychology. The main professional change since 2002 has been taking a second job: editor of Medical Hypotheses, a journal which publishes bioscience theories. I do a lot of writing of various types – scientific, medical, journalistic. If you want to see some, my internet pages are at: www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton

Gill is doing fine - fit and fabulous.

She remains a busy part-time principal in a two-person General Practice in Jesmond, and combines this with being a Mum and preventing the house from degenerating into a complete slum.

We go hill-walking together at every opportunity, and are serious (and I mean serious) armchair cricket fans. Gill's greatest achievement recently has undoubtedly been getting the autograph of her fellow Yorkshire Hero - Geoffrey Boycott.

NICE guidelines, QOF targets, appraisal documentation, proposed revalidation, PDPs, the prospect of evening and weekend surgeries again, and paperwork, paperwork, paperwork…… not to mention the patients……. have finally got the better of me!

From mid December I am going to be a lady of leisure, spend time with my lovely husband and family, and do what I enjoy…..gardening, tennis, golf, bridge, piano playing, travelling and lots of socialising with friends. We will be on holiday at the time of the Reunion …hope you all enjoy it. Love to anyone who remembers me.

At the last reunion I was on the point of thinking about trying to make my mind up about finally leaving Newcastle for pastures new. Well in February 03 I finally joined the Reunion expat contingent and moved to Brisbane, stopping off en route to catch up with the Smiths in Perth. I can't believe almost 5 years have gone by....

Unfortunately even in Australia hair still has a tendency to turn grey and the regular bodily fluctuations between lean mean fighting machine and total blob still occur. The prospect of the big 50 is a little daunting but the loss of GB last year puts everything into perspective on that score.

I now work in the largest teaching hospital in the Southern Hemisphere and have joined the class of '82 professorial subgroup, to my mild embarrassment. Fiona and I love the climate here and the kids are well settled. Liam and Hannah are both at Uni now and Christian is a total Aussie I'm afraid. We miss the weekend papers, radio 4 and St James park but are learning to do without them. We manage to keep in touch with family through the wonders of t'internet and have had loads of visitors and a good few trips back to the NE. Unfortunately September 07 will not be one of them, so I wish all of you a fantastic reunion weekend and hope to see some great photos on Alan's website.

I have now been working in Gateshead in the Pathology department for 15 years…..Well, that’s work out of the way.

I am still married to Kate, and have been now for the last twenty two years. She is working as a GP in Monkseaton, Whitley Bay. Our two children now treat us as if we are decrepit and retired, which may not be too far from the truth. Rebecca turns twenty one this year, and is following her parents’ footsteps and is at Newcastle studying medicine and is now going into her third year. Robert, who is now eighteen, is back home having been in the army and is now starting his A-levels from September after a busy summer in the lakes and Alps. We got a new addition to the family this year, and now have three dogs, so are always on the go!

Last year Kate and I accomplished our very first marathon, in Amsterdam (the flattest we could think of), and will hopefully be doing another one again at some point! We are enjoying the smaller coastal runs at the moment with Robert and Rebecca with the Keilder run being our next challenge. No more impressive site than four Crosses on the run?!? Oh, and the dogs usually run with us too. My sporting abilities are legendary, culminating in me helping England retain the Ashes last Winter in Australia.

Ambition?? None really (apart from Newcastle (and Chester) actually winning something). Could be I am just happy?!?

The attached photo shows me last month, finally spotting my last BR train of all, finishing a collection of over 4,000 sightings. This particular one has been locked in a secure Ministry of Defence Depot in Hereford for 20 years. This was the final moment of a pointless thirty five year journey, the result of which is a collection of no value at all! (And yes, they are building new ones all the time.) Having had the photo taken, I took the train for a spin, reaching six miles per hour at one point!

As Lord Voldemort/Dumbledore of the Yorkshire Anaesthetic School, I am currently running anaesthetic training in the region and so I have been severely traumatized by the MTAS farce of the last nine months. I anaesthesthetise for a selection of Acute, General, Head and Neck and paediatric MRI scanning lists in Leeds in the vast teaching hospitals. I am not sure how that happened, maybe if I'd paid more attention at Medical School.....

I still do the times crossword, train track doodles and have diverted some of my income into a very useful collection of rare Victorian pennies. I ferry the kids here and there and I am being slowly eaten alive by psoriasis. This, and the stress of it all has made my hair go white. I still occasionally cycle to work on the rusting orange bike that did so many miles around the north east in the seventies and eighties. Except, it seems to have slowed down a bit and for safety reasons, I often cycle on the pavement. My beloved Allison still puts up with all of this, she has now given up nursing and works as a Teaching assistant in a Local School in Leeds. We live in an Edwardian house in north Leeds, which like me, is rather too large and poorly maintained.

Our eldest, Roz is at University in Warwick doing classics, Fiona is in the sixth form and we haven't seen our youngest daughter, Helen, who has been on an outward bound course somewhere in Wales for the last three weeks. The final female in the household is a naughty Lakeland terrier puppy, who has just eaten the stair carpet. We still own the crumbling house in the Lakes and the climate there is as wet and the house is as cold and damp as ever. Our weekends there are very sedate nowadays. Now our children are planning the student parties.

I still occasionally sharpen my wit on the poor anaesthetic trainees of Leeds, but on the whole, I hope I have mellowed and I do not intend to write any bitchy biographies about anybody this time. Sorry to everyone for all my sins!

Still living on our small farm with cows and horses near Dumfries and life is still good! After a back problem, I reviewed my working hours and now have the perfect job--4 days a week as Associate Specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. Increasingly more of the rest of my time is spent running www.menopausematters.co.uk and publishing Menopause Matters magazine--very relevant for all of us girls approaching the big "50"! Married to Matt, silver wedding next year. Our children continue to be wonderful; Victoria, 19, has an athletics scholarship in USA at East Tennessee University where she is studying psychology. Has just completed 1 year and returns for another year before starting medicine at Birmingham next year. James, now the tallest in the family, has just finished GCSEs and is considering his future career options! He plays a lot of rugby and we enjoy being cheering parents! Sorry that I can't make it to the reunion this time. Hope you all have a great time.

I am still a GP, still in St Helens, still married to Angie, and still with Robin (now 18) and Jessica (12), still living in Warrington. So what has changed since last time? Robin has just been accepted to study Digital Media Applications at Teesside University, Jess is now at High School and growing fast, and we now have a dog (an all-black German Shepherd, called Sooty). I keep trying to nudge local mental health services into becoming just that, with little more success than in the past; I remain too busy for my own good. I have added to that becoming Churchwarden (of an Anglican-Methodist joint church): not much more to get my weekly committments over 168 hours now!

The attached photos are from this year's holiday in Fuerteventura, a couple of weeks ago.

Not a lot changed in the last five years. Still Consultant Physician in Macclesfield but now I'm Clinical Lead for Elderly Care. I continue as a Church Warden and sing regularly in the choir, playing the organ when required. The man in my life has been teaching in Trinidad - the picture shows the bouquet I was given at the School Graduation this Summer. After the hassle of this August 1st with junior doctors without GMC registration and work permits, I am definitely beginning to think life as a classroom assistant in a Caribbean Primary School has more attraction than the NHS!

Still married to Nick, GP and latent engineer in Stanhope, Weardale, and still a part-time GP in Co Durham. Our 3 sons have surprised in us in many ways - Peter, 19 has spent his gap year learning to instruct snowboarding in Canada, working in factories and most recently for PGL as a lifeguard in GB and France. he has a uni place in Coventry but fears that there may be no snow left when/if he graduates! Will, 18 is hoping to study medicine, and Eds, 13 is just a clone of his father and rebuilds engines and trains or both!

I feel that my greatest contribution to the health of our nation was spearheading a campaign and negotiating with the council to to reopen a local swimming pool to as a charity with a group of local parents - we took up the challenge and now employ a manager and many other school leavers as lifeguards, are self supporting in training lifeguards and have over 140 children and adults learning to swim at Wolsingham Community Pool (www.wolsinghampool.co.uk).

Rock climbing has given way to studying rocks academically with the OU and trying to get across to Lakes as often as possible for some hands on geology. I would rather be in the Lakes or down a lead mine in the North Pennines......

I’m now working as Medical Director for Conwy Local Health Board. I took this job as a temporary measure in 2003 and have now worked there longer than I have at most places. I also work as a part-time GP in Conwy and as an Honorary Senior Lecturer and course organiser for the Diploma in Therapeutics at Cardiff University. To complete this dragonification, Laura our 20-year old daughter is a medical student at Cardiff University (no nepotism there, I swear!). Matthew, the son who is now 17 and already taller than his dad is doing A levels, but is steering well clear of medicine. Teresa, my long-suffering wife has taken a career break from NHS biomedical sciences. Due to vision problems I can’t drive and Teresa has inadvertently started a new career as chauffeuse and new pair of eyes for me. The family continue to enjoy skiing holidays and soaking up the sun in Majorca. We live in West Kirby on the Wirral but are contemplating moving closer to my work in North Wales.

Well although it is 25 years since most of you graduated, it is only 24 yrs for me, as I crept into the year below for final year, due to the arrival of our first daughter, Becki. So I am not sure I should really be on this website! However it is great to read of all your achievements and catch up with where you all are. What a lot of kids we have produced between us!

Having been the youngest mother in the year, I am now destined to be the youngest grandmother I fear as Becki is getting married in July 2008! I am definitely not ready for that as I still wake up shocked to be a mother-of-three-part-time-GP-pillar-of-local-community!!

Still married to Chris( silver wedding last year!) who is still doing hairy things on mountains when he gets the time from his charitable advisory role. Still a part time GP in sunny Shap- which is a great place to work nowadays. Without government interference, this would be near perfect traditional rural General Practice! Have spent the last three years attempting to persuade the SHA that we need a new surgery building, and finally have a glimmer of hope! Autumn 2008 should see us rehoused.....we will see.

Our middle daughter, Jessica, graduated this year from St. Martins College Ambleside where she did a BA in Outdoor Studies and would like to look into the therapeutic application of the Outdoor Environment, but this is a very new area in the UK .Our youngest daughter is Rachel, 15 yrs and just starting her GCSE year- thinking of becoming a Vet.She is horse mad....but so far we have managed to avoid the massive expense and time commitment of owning one.

We all enjoy active holidays and spend free time in the Lakes walking, cycling and sailing, though it is somewhat mystifying that we seem to have less and less time free!

Sorry no photo- that technology is still beyond me and my daughter saya she is 'too busy' to help!

Despite having called moving to Darlington a "right decision", Dad promptly moved down the road to Yarm. "More expensive but a better class of bird". He is still fond of flashing at birds but is restricted by having a wife and three kids.

Still striving to be a housewife he is only frustrated by the irritation of having to hold down a full-time job as a GP in Middlesbrough.

Flushed with success after marrying his first driving lesson pupil, he took to breeding his own. An on-going, 3 stage process.

25 years on and our Mum is still seeking a man, however is still stuck with Dad, the one she found at Uni. She is however, quite partial to Jose Mourinho and still lusts after David Cassidy.

She continues to giggle her way through life (and meetings) . Despite this she has managed to become senior partner in a suburban practice in Eaglescliffe and even dips into a bit of medical politics and PCT work. She is yet to attain her ambition of keeping hens in the garden despite nagging from us.

Memorable quotes consist of : "I still don't trust these little green men" ( on a road crossing ) And: "Oh I've failed as a mother". No mum, you haven't.

By Richard ( 2nd yr medical student ) Kathryn (aspiring medical student) and Claire ( me? medic? - never )

I have now been a part-time partner in general practice in Morpeth for 19 years. No plans to change this as I am very happy there and I find part-time keeps the work/life balance right.

Still married to Richard who runs a busy architecture firm. Clem, our 18 year old, has just finished school and is starting a gap year which I suspect will become a gap life as he is gong to spend the winter season as a ski chalet host and the summer teaching sailing and windsurfing in the Med. with no UCAS form completed. Rupert, our 16 year old, is showing signs of following in his footsteps but does plan to return to uni and a "real" job.

We spend most weekends recharging batteries at our cottage at Newton by the Sea where we are usually flying around on the water in dinghies or on windsurfers. If there is no wind Richard can usually be found clearing the beaches of litter (his OCD is getting worse) and I am surrounded by our spaniels.

Photos from our summer holiday in Turkey, sailing again!

Not much has changed at the Emms household over the last 5 years.

I am still nominally senior partner at Spa Surgery, Harrogate. Have merged with another practice so now 7 partners 10,500 patients. Still desperately trying to move premises but the PCT refused to go ahead with current project as they were so much in debt. Recently they have changed their mind so now it is all systems go to try and be in before 2009! Nothing signed as yet.

I am still singing with Treble Clef (we do frequent evening gigs at Bettys) and tending to do more gardening these days. (Must be an age thing)

Have just celebrated our silver wedding with 2 great parties. Richard is still doing NHS dentistry in Ripon and manages a day a week off to spend doing jobs with me! He and the family still have season tickets at Boro and I even got to see some of the better games last season. (Well the ones against the better teams!)

Children grow (and eat) continually. Jonny 18, David 16, and Jess 14. Jonny will be doing medicine at Newcastle in September just 30 years after I did. We spent a very interesting day seeing all the departments in the new Medical school when he went for a look round. I almost wished I was doing it myself!

Hoping to plan for an early retirement at 55 as I find the NHS increasingly frustrating although still like the patients (surprisingly).

I’m still living in sunny Brisbane & still enjoying working as a part time GP in a multicultural inner city practice. Contrary to many reports, Queensland offers resettlement to many refugees, and my working day often involves consulting with patients through interpreters. I really enjoy the variety this brings to my professional life as our practice also includes a complete mix of the local established community. I teach clinical skills to small groups of post graduate first year MBBS students. Its a great opportunity to demonstrate to them that basic history taking & examination skills are still important in modern medical practice. It’s also good fun & often full of laughs.

My Geordie daughter now 21 is a glamorous graphic design student. Her two teenage brothers are laid- back high school students!

Jon takes me sailing in our small yacht on Moreton Bay. We plan to have our own gap year & go cruising once our youngest has finished school.

Have a great reunion, love from Kate.

Well.........never a dull moment ! Having become a consultant radiologist in Darlington in 1989 I moved after 8 years to pastures new in Mackem land! The last 10 years there have been personally rewarding with the development of a specialist interest in MRI / Musculoskeletal Imaging. Despite 2 disastrous marriages which counterbalanced the career highs , a much more sanguine Arthur Frusemide is looking forward to meeting with you all again in 2007 ! Indeed my personal life has never been happier . I believe that I have finally found true love and contentment with Tracy ( an angel sent from Bahrain but Sunderland born and bred). We share our 4 storey Victorian townhouse with my daughters Kirsty 19 , Sally 16 and Tracy's sons Mac 14 , Al 11 , and daughter Zahra 9 ! I still enjoy watching the trials and tribulations of SAFC and hope that "Keano" can keep them in the Premiership this time ! My remaining ambitions are to retire as early as possible to somewhere warm and tranquil !

I am still married to Graham (27 years this year), still living in Newcastle and we have two children, Rosalind aged 18 and Andrew aged 15. Unusually among our friends’ children, Rosalind has decided not to study medicine and will shortly go to Durham Uni to study Geography. Andrew is at Northern Counties School, a special school which is part of the Percy Hedley Foundation. He is very happy there and doing as well as he can, given his multiple disabilities. He is usually a very jolly young man who enjoys life, although he does combine the worst aspects of toddler and teenager behaviour!

As Andrew requires a huge amount of care and supervision I am not currently in paid work but I do a lot of voluntary stuff. In particular, I am Treasurer of Newcastle Special Needs Network which I helped start 11 years ago as a small project but which is now an independent charity funded by the Big Lottery and employing 5 staff. We support Newcastle families with disabled children / young people up to age 25. (You may recall I gave up medicine many moons ago to become an accountant)

Unlike Graham, I have not taken up running half-marathons but I do (reluctantly) visit the gym from time to time! When we get the chance (difficult with Andrew) we enjoy walking and are currently ‘doing’ the Tyne from mouth to source in random stages (about a third so far).

Sorry we can’t make it to any of the events this time: it is hard to get a babysitter for Andrew, and Rosalind is out both nights, her social life being somewhat better than ours! Unfortunately we can’t come to the daytime BBQ either as Graham is flying to St Petersburg that day and I would struggle to manage Andrew at a big ‘do’ on my own. Let’s hope we do better for the 30th!

I am a consultant microbiologist in Birmingham, still married to Mary (a GP) and having my life ruined by 3 teenaged children; Laura 15(hormonal), Sam 13 ( who apparently is an “emo” whatever that means) and Dominic 11 (addicted to Playstation shoot ‘em up games). I realised a few years ago that work is an overrated pastime but, unfortunately, realised at the same time that I was never going to be a professional golfer. Retirement planning is therefore one of my favourite hobbies.

Over the last 5 years our family at home has been shrinking rapidly, we have had 3 kids in uni this last year, Katy is now 22 and has just graduated from Bristol, Anna is 20 and is a psychology student at Sheffield and David has started medicine in Birmingham. We have still have Sarah (16) and Joel(14) at home. Last summer was our 25th wedding anniversary; we had a fantastic holiday on safari in Tanzania and then learnt to dive off the coast of Zanzibar. The photo is of us sipping our 'sun downer' in the Selous reserve. Hoping to do that again before the 50th anniversary. I continue to work part time as a GP in Birtley, Gateshead and Ian heads up the leadership team of City Church Newcastle, and we still have the same dog...so, not much else has changed!

Three active seven year old boys and a 12 month old chocolate Labrador means that the Gummery household is in a constant state of chaos. This means that myself and Rachel are in a constant state of exhaustion, in my case often accompanied by a state of inebriation. Hence my very short year book entry. Thank God all we do at work nowadays is tick boxes. All the multiple choice training at University has come in quite useful . Samantha aged 17 now is doing her A/S levels this year and despite all my best advise is determined to apply to medical school. Looking forward to seeing you all in September.

Here is a very quick precis of my life over the last few years.

Work: Have been a GP principal in Portlethen - 9 miles south of Aberdeen - since 6/2000. I work part-time for 5 sessions a week, and do some out of hours work. The practice has 13000 patients, 9 partners, a GP registrar, and a FY2 doctor. I love my job.

Family: I have been divorced since 1997, and am happily young!!??, free and single. I have 2 boys: Ben is 16 and into his girlfriend of 18 months, his scooter ( Aprilio SR50R ), and music. Sam is 14 and into any sport going, especially tennis and golf.

Hobbies: When I get time outside being a single Mum, and running a house, I run or road bike several times a week, and am a keen gardener.

Claim to fame: I ran in the Elite Ladies Race at the Great North Run in 1996,and came 19th/50 in 1hr 19mins.

Other achievements: I have been to Peru twice - to the Inca trail in 2003, and then to the lares Inca Trail going up to 4600m in 2005. I am going to climb Mt Kilimanjaro in Sept 08 to celebrate my 50th birthday.

June 2006 – Kim is still a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist in Sunderland (…. started in January 1994). Happy that the football team is back in the Premier division (… and hoping that they’ll stay up for longer this time)! He can’t believe that 25 years has gone by and only admits to slight weight gain over that time. Family life is busy with Karen a full time student for the last 2 years (studying a ‘Beauty’ course at college) and their two girls, Abbie 15 and Lauren 7 growing up fast. Work has been hectic recently as Chairman of the Deanery Training Committee, trying to sort out the MTAS debacle! He tries his best to fulfil a full NHS commitment between lecture/teaching trips to Hong Kong , Abu-Dhabi etc. Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces in September….

The 24 years since qualification (I graduated in ‘83) have flown by, and I’m ashamed at how predictable and conventional my career path reads: house jobs and a medical SHO / registrar rotation in Newcastle; research in lung cancer at Freeman hospital as part of an MD; then a move to Yorkshire, SR rotation in Leeds and Hull; 3 months in Hong Kong doing research into tuberculosis before returning to the UK; a consultant post in general / respiratory medicine in Burnley (Lancashire); then a move back to Yorkshire in 1997 as consultant in respiratory and general medicine at Airedale hospital, near Skipton.

I have been at Airedale for 10 years now. My main interests are lung cancer, COPD and asthma and I run the district tuberculosis service. I am an honorary Senior Lecturer in medicine at the University of Leeds . I am also the Treasurer of the British Thoracic Society.

I am married for a 2nd time and have 5 daughters. So I’ve had 2 attempts at marriage and consultant posts, but don’t have the energy for a 3rd go at either. I enjoy cycling, skiing and walking in the Dales but rarely play football any more. I am planning to do the Great North Run this year, for the 7th time.

We plan to retire in 10 years and spend a lot of time in France.

I am a Blackburn Rovers fan and season ticket holder. Someone has to be.

I've got to write my own year book entry this time as 2 of the children have left home and the third one "hasn't got time". It doesn't seem long since the last reunion, nothing much has changed Sarah says I should tell lies otherwise I'll sound really boring...but like George Washington I can never tell a lie. I returned from space to the same old (cheers Al) wife, same old GP job in Sunniside and the same old semi in Whickham with the same 3 kids .The assorted chickens have been eaten and the dog is a puppy with a less stupid name.

Meeting all the class of 82 at the last reunion and seeing my double chin in the subsequent photos set me on a course of discovery I was to later to regret. To cut a very long story short, it wasn't my fault that the botox injection went septic but the judge didn't see it like that...suppose that's life... hoping to be out by the time of the reunion.

I switched from Clinical and Molecular Genetics, to Public Health five years ago, and have been training half time ever since. I have no regrets about trading my international jet setting conference lifestyle for a life of NHS politics, budgets and negotiating with everyone from angry publicans, who do not want to go smoke free, to the chief whip of the labour party who thinks that Smoke Free Legislation will be the death nail of her political career. Although I don’t generally frequent international conferences any more, I am off to Edinburgh the day after this reunion, for the first International Conference on Tobacco Control, to present the work I did in Co Durham. Last winter I actually managed to combine two of my careers when I spent six months at the Public Health Genetics Unit in Cambridge.

I am still married to my first husband, Richard, a civil engineer with his own business. We have two children, Alicia who is 10 and Dominic who is seven. We still live in Riding Mill and three years ago bought a newly converted stone granary just behind the sand dunes at Embelton Bay. We do rent the granary out (sleeps four), so if you are ever looking or holiday accommodation on the Northumberland coast do get in touch.

Having failed miserably to get the award for either the “Eldest Primigravida” or “Oldest New Mother”, at the last reunion I am hoping for better luck this time running. So far I plan to try for –

1. Having trained in the most specialities – Paediatrics, Clinical and Molecular Genetics and Public Health.
2. The only member of the year still in training.
3. Having more letters after my name than in it – MBBS MRCP MSc MD MFPH.
4. Having the most qualifications from Newcastle University – three degrees and the Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education.

My current aim in life is to get a consultant job before I reach the half century mark and not to get any more qualifications!!!

I left Newcastle in 1984 to do a pre-fellowship surgical SHO rotation in Bristol that included 6 months of Neurosurgery at Frenchay Hospital. I found the specialty fascinating and I decided to take it on as a career. In 1990, after completing 4 years of post-fellowship training in Cardiff and Bristol and with the FRCS (Neurosurgery) under my belt, we felt it was time to move back home to Saudi Arabia. I joined the University Hospital in Riyadh and was promoted to Consultant in 1991 and to Professor of Neurosurgery in 2000. In 2001, I moved to Saudi Arabia’s second city and my home town, Jeddah to take up my current post which is the Chairman of Surgery and Head of Neurosurgery at King Khalid National Guards hospital. I have been married to Soreya since 1981. We have two sons, Aimun (22) and Bucky (19). Our strong link with the UK has continued over the last 8 years as both of our sons went to boarding school at Shrewsbury and they are currently 4th and 2nd year medical students at Nottingham.

Still in Newcastle - been here since graduating. Was a GP for 15 years or so, the last few being part time. However, I am now more or less full time writing patient information materials for EMIS (a GP clinical computer system) and for my website www.patient.co.uk.

My two girls are five years older than last time, strangely enough, with Hannah (the eldest) following in the family tradition now in her third year at Newcastle medical school. Things have changed a bit there though. For a start, she has to do lots more exams then we ever did! I mentioned in the last reunion posting that I got an alto saxophone for my birthday just before the reunion. Well - I am still playing it and have improved. My wife Beverley (year below us) even thinks it is pleasant now listening to me practice!

In the fear of Rob Cruikshank completing my entry I feel compelled to write something. Still in Tyneside, married to Jane (Silver Wedding this year!) with 2 children aged 21 and 23. We have successfully put both our children off medicine, Kate studying Fine Art in London and Jonathan working in Transport Planning in London . We seem to be adapting to a home without kids remarkably well---things stay where you put them!

Although still in Tyneside I have moved around a bit. I worked in General Practice in Gateshead for 12 years before moving to a practice in Newcastle . After 7 years in this happy practice in a nice part of Newcastle I decided I needed a challenge and took on a practice in a deprived part of Sunderland which had been unable to recruit a GP for over 2 years. The practice was PCT (mis)managed and after successfully transforming the practice into a high performing GP training practice the PCT decided to put the practice out to competitive tender. We managed to fight off the competition and are currently haggling a contract out of a PCT who seem to think that having taken a drop in pay to take on this challenge I will work for less to run the practice. At least the college have recognised the work by providing me with a fellowship!

Like half the year of 82, I too enjoy running and will see many as usual at the Great North Run. Fell walking with my Border Collie is another great love—as is attending NUFC matches.

I was sorry not to have made the 20yr reunion but am looking forward to this one. Jane is having a long weekend break in Morocco with my daughter but I will be at the reunion. See you then.

Why on earth did I let Chris Mc Donald persuade me to help organise another reunion? I must be mad….. If it hadn’t been for Kath Mannix and her wonderful negotiating skills I would be on valium by now! However it will all be worth it if everyone has a brilliant time and we are keeping our fingers crossed for a balmy summers evening so we can all enjoy the spectacular setting of the Baltic on the quayside. Our three children continue to grow and only Amy (aged 11 ) is now smaller than me. Rebecca, our eldest has decided not to follow in her parents’ footsteps but prefers patients who bite and kick and is starting Vet School in Edinburgh on September 8th-yes that is the day of the dinner dance-so after a mad dash up to Scotland I may still need that valium! I continue to work part time in sunny Whitley Bay and Chris is in Morpeth in an ever expanding practice including surgeries in Pegswood, Lynemouth and Newbiggin by the sea. Chris continues his work as an examiner for the RCGP and is currently helping to develop and train assessors for the nMRCGP. The biggest change for us all since the last reunion is we eventually moved house to an old vicarage in Longhirst, just outside Morpeth. We love it even though the gardening has been a very steep learning curve for Chris (I just watch and throw in the odd helpful comment!) Unfortunately last summer Chris’ international football career came to an abrupt end when he ruptured his Achilles tendon playing football against the Italians on the 3rd day of our holiday in Tuscany. One year on he is finally back to normal (?) and if anyone is interested they can see his scar at the ball ( and compare it to Dave Talbots ) Looking forward to seeing you all.

Too shy to tell us anything about himself, but appeared at the reunion

I am wondering what has happened over the last 5 years, ah yes, I remember. Whilst cutting a bread bun for my dear childrens' burger fest, I incised my little pinky and stitched it up with 6/0 proline. My 6 months in Sunderland A&E has been of some use! Otherwise I am still a GP in Wideopen and seem to take perverse pleasure in being a police surgeon seeing various felons and miscreants usually at most unsatisfactory hours of the morning 'just think of the money doctor'. Apparently in my previous entry to the yearbook I was mysteriously single. Karin and I were married 2 days after graduation and despite my omissions are still on honeymoon {oh please}. I seem to be living in a constant state of intimidation. Firstly from our daughter Ailsa, who has excelled at A levels and is on her way to St Andrews to study modern languages {I'm still struggling with Geordie}. Secondly our delightful 15 year old son, Alex, who at 6'3, looks down own us imperiously and expects us to appreciate his musical fusion on his base guitar- set at volume 11. My own achievements in the last 5 years include coming 3rd in the bronze fleet of the GP14 national champs last year, and completing the C2C and Revers way. Next year the Coast and Castles. Unfortunately other commitments will keep us away from the reunion, best wishes to you all. Memories of Gary Brown- I was a pillion on the back of his motor bike at uni.

We live in one of the small villages just outside the Cambridge, and I’m with the same pharmaceutical company working in clinical development and drug safety, with international responsibilities covering Europe and Asia Pacific territories. I now also spend one day a week in clinical practice at a local surgery, and enjoy the mix. Anne is still working at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Addenbrookes, where she has a much treasured term-time contract, enabling time with the girls during school holidays.

Kate is 16, and waiting for news of GCSE results, Emily 14, and Jessica 12. We enjoy time together away from work and school, much of it either at school, club and county netball fixtures, or on the water. We continue to race throughout the year at Grafham Water Sailing Club, and at regional and national events with some success, although with the passage of time, at some personal physical cost! In terms of holidays we enjoy chartering in the UK and the Mediterranean, last year we explored the Greek Ionian Islands, and this year the Croatian coast.

Sadly Sheffield Wednesday and Carlisle United have not yet scaled the higher echelons of European football; however we take great delight from our tiny village football team, promoted four times in the last seven years, and now one promotion away from the football league.

We look forward to the reunion and the next five years, with some excitement. Retirement seems a long way away at the moment, but still dreaming of sailing off into the sunset for a protracted retirement cruise around the Mediterranean….and perhaps beyond!

It is nice to have found this site which brings out beautiful memories, and to keep in touch, even electronically. I am working as a consultant respirologist in a nice hospital in my hometown, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (www.kfshrc.edu.sa), after working academically in the University for sometime. I am happily married, my wife Hana was an obstetrician but now working on a PhD thesis on recurrent abortions in Bristol, so I travel frequently these days to UK. I have 4 children, the eldest, Noha, is thinking of going to Medicine in the future. I visited Newcastle was 2004, as I was attending the ERS meeting, to find out that my old medical school has moved, and none whom I knew to speak to in the city. I hope it will be different next time, maybe in the reunion.

These photos are of our recent fabulous holiday in my favourite place Luing, a tiny Island off the West Coast of Scotland.

I am still very happily married to Charlie, with three boys Charlie (15), Cameron (13) and Robert (11) and still working part time in the same rural Northumberland practice. My interests are the same gardening, hill walking, playing tennis, going to balls, drinking champagne, coffee (decaf.)/lunch with the girls (friends) etc.

But I am sorry to say, after reading the other entries, I have a new interest (like most of the class of 82) Two years ago 50 of us from Ponteland were persuaded to run the Great North Run for Charity to raise £50,000.We succeeded. I raised £1750.00 just by putting a bucket in the surgery with a note explaining what I was doing! In any case to cut a long story short I caught the bug and now run with Elswick Harriers at least twice a week.

Great to hear what everyone is doing.

Well, it's been a great 5 years of slow & steady progress north of the border. SNP NOW IN POWER...just. It's all pointing one way though: Tories kicked out completely in '97; Referendum won resoundingly in '98; official opposition for 1st 8 years of the parliament; and now IN Government. When I leave after my still regular forays north (to de-stabilise the discredited Union, plus walking, drinking & climbing) Scottish folk wave kindly & say "goodbye" & I answer "when ?".

I've now moved on to an official position of influence over impressionable young GPs by becoming a GP Trainer. More & more mavericks sent on their way with a portion of my would-be revolutionary soul embedded in some horcrux or other I give to them. They, though, seem to fight back with ruby-hilted-swords of enthusiasm for the profession.

But, perhaps my most prestigious achievement of the five years has been to transfer my "To-Do List" to an Excel Spreadsheet. A long held dream. Only tarnished somewhat by my then printing it off & tinkering with it with pen & pencil. Plus la meme chose....

Older but no wiser, I can’t think of anything remotely interesting or witty to write for this yearbook entry. Jan and I still live happily in the same house in Thornaby where we have been for the last 22 years. Our children are gradually turning into adults and are a great blessing to us. Being in the same practice in Norton as Cath Worth (see below) has inspired vague attempts at hill running over the years, but never to the dizzy heights of success that she has achieved. I even saw Alan Hunt at this year’s Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon, but he was running too fast for any recognition to take place…

I look forward to meeting up again in September – is it really 25 years? Best wishes to you all, and to those of you who are unable to come, you will be remembered.

This is my 15th year as a Consultant Radiologist at Southend General Hospital. The work seems never ending and we seemed to getting busier every year. Still I am managing to enjoy my job ( I think ). I have stayed in the UK since I qualified except for a short stint in the USA whilst getting my Cross Sectional Imaging Fellowship. It is difficult to believe that 25 years have gone past since we qualified. Looking at the photos of everyone in the yearbook I can see how much we have changed. To add to all that I have just turned 50 and my wife Irie and I have marked our twentieth anniversary. Irie is from Sri Lanka where I originally hail from also. She trained as a Botanist but had a change of career and now works as a supply teacher for primary school children.

I have been made a proud father this year when my eldest daughter, aged 18, got her AL grades to enter med school. She will be starting this October. She has decided to head for Bristol as she liked the city when she visited there. Newcastle was just that little bit far away for her. My second is Sachi who is 14 years old. He goes to the local grammar school and hasn't quite decided what to do yet. The way its going it will probably be something along the lines of computer games! My youngest is a son called Ruchi and he is 7 years old. he keeps Irie and myself young at heart. As you can see we have spaced out our family quite nicely! No chance of thinking about early retirement.

We live in Thorpe Bay which is 5 miles from Southend town on the north bank of the Thames estuary. I have taken up sailing as an interest and regularly sail to France with colleagues. I have also taken up skiing quite recently and immensely enjoyed a skiing trip to the French Alps recently.

I didn't make the last reunion. I am looking forward to seeing you all on the 8th.

Many will recall the thoroughly scurrilous but not entirely inaccurate entry I was given in the 82 yearbook. Shocking.

Sadly I haven't improved much. Still love my booze and cigs.

Workwise I've been a Consultant Obs and Gynae chap in Greenwich, London, UK since 1995. Have done a stint as Associate Medical Director and am currently Clinical Director for Women's and Children's Services. Still do a weekly half day on the Reproductive Medicine Unit at Bart's in the City.

I'm President of the Section for Quality at the RSM and sit on the RSM Academic Board (though I haven't written a paper for nearly 20 years! ) - please don't tell them -

Other fun activities include being a Clinical Inspector for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and an appraiser for NHS Professionals.

What I enjoy best though is not being at work.

I've been with Niall (a Scottish South African) for 10 years and we had a great Civil Partner ship bash last June. 2 Spaniels (Port and Starboard) and a moggie called Molly. Love living in the Georgian bit by Greenwich Park. Go sailing down on the Solent or charter abroad.

Was desperately sad about Gary Brown. He was one of the year I had managed to keep up with and he stayed in Greenwich on several occasions. Glasses must be raised during the Reunion

Chin Chin

Am still working as part time salaried GP and enjoy the rest of the time with my husband, David, and 9 year old son, James. We live close to Hampton Court Palace, and enjoy the area very much. My son is now 6th generation Hamptonian!

We visit the Far East every summer, mainly to see my family, and this year, we managed to walk a part of the Great Wall in China as well.

I won't be able to make the Reunion, but would like to send greetings and good wishes to everyone.

Having read many of your entries, it strikes me that we have many similarities: enjoying family life, hard working, and believing in good health (keeping fit, doing sports). For staying young, could one of our dermatology class members offer us all anti-aging( botox etc ) treatments at the reunion?

It’s now our 17th year in Thailand, which we love. Ian and I have Sandy now 12 and Helena now 10 years still with our nanny Kai and maid Nee. It was still such an adjustment returning to Bangkok after our shot but wonderful summer holiday in Newcastle in August this year. The wrench from family and adjustment back gets harder, why?

After leaving Kimberly-Clark in 2003, I started MedConsult an occupational health company and now we will now become more of a general practice clinic in Bangkok and later on provide health tourist service so you may wish to offer Thailand to you patients. We have faced the obvious problems of running a business and fortunately Ian is now managing the business end so I can concentrate on the medical.

Since our Mum (really grandmother) died in 2002, I did a lot of researching myself , our family and trying out many techniques to deal with life: from massage, meditation (didn’t like) running, counselling and coming to terms with who I am, I even visited Nairobi and the lakes in Milnthorpe it’s definitely helped me enormously.

I have been involved in many things like Tsunami in Thailand, some charity for persons with medical problems near border areas but most of the time I try to keep my head down and live in harmony (quite difficult at times!).

Hard to believe its 25 years - a lot older but certainly not any wiser! Am still Professor of Foetal Medicine at Newcastle although we don't have a department of Obs & Gynae any more - only an Institute of Cellular Medicine (of which I am Head of Cell Signalling, Injury & Repair - it's a brave new academic world!)

Still married to Sue with two boys - Simon (age 12) and Jamie (age 14) - unfortunately both have inherited dad's sporting genes but fortunately blessed with mother's looks! Although we live in Newcastle have discovered the wonders of the Northumberland coast and spend a lot of our time in Beadnell.

Really looking forward to seeing some or all on the Friday evening - am off to Florence on the Saturday so we won't make the posh do.

Oh dear, is this the last entry?

Whilst many of you have taken up hobbies, maintained or increased fitness, travelled to exotic locations and progressed your careers since the last reunion, I decided life was getting too comfortable - so Andrew and I had twins and bought a dog at the same time. (Actually, I was really annoyed at not winning oldest mother, and so, competitive as always, decided to go for the award this time). The photograph reflects my lifestyle - it's 10pm, I'm just back from London, and am multi-tasking in the only way I know. What happened to the girl who liked to party?

I have 4 great children - Luke is now 16, Annabelle 14, and Melissa, Lily-Niamh (otherwise known as the muppets) and Badger are 3. Luke has no idea what he wants to do at University, Annabelle wants to watch "Home and Away" and the twins are hoping not to be banned from any more cafes. Badger roams Bakewell looking for chips discarded by tourists. I am still working in Genitourinary Medicine at Sheffield, and also advise organisations and government on young peoples' issues and children's’ rights.

My media career has flourished, and I have progressed from my research quoted in “the News of the World” - headlines “Randy Wrinklies at Risk of AIDs” via Panorama, to the Politics Show and, the pinnacle of my academic achievements, GMTV. Unfortunately none of these have resulted in Professorial status, like so many of the Class of 82. Perhaps if I get a spread in “Hello” magazine…..?

I’m really looking forward to the reunion, and wish all the best to those of you who can’t make it.

After graduating I did house jobs in surgery at Hexham General and in medicine at the RVI. Two years of paediatrics in Newcastle followed before a move to Bristol and then to Manchester. I completed my training in Oxford.

In the right place at the right time I got a consultant post in Oxford in 1992 and here I remain. Whilst not immune to the trials and tribulations of life in the NHS, I continue to find the work engaging and rewarding and count myself fortunate to be here, “dreaming spires” and all.

If I have been lucky in my work I have been doubly so with my family life. Maddy (nee Jones BDS Ncle 1981) and I married in July 1982 and so we have just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Maddy has an all female practice which affords some respite from home I guess.

Training around the country allowed us to take advantage of obstetric and maternity departments in Bristol (Aidan 1985), Manchester (Dominic 1987) and Oxford (Edmund 1991). Ed has just completed the first year of his “trials by public examination”. Hopefully these inconveniences can be fitted in between gigs playing the fiddle with the County Youth Orchestra and drums in the Big Band and representing the county at hockey and rugby. Dom is in his second year at the dental school in Newcastle, “an elite athlete”, he has so far managed to fit his studies in around rugby commitments for Newcastle Falcons Development Team and the university, his ‘cello is missing him and is unlikely to have much contact in the near future since Dom has also started to play for Blaydon. Aidan, on the other hand has curtailed his sporting pretensions to read music at King’s in London; inevitable I think after singing as a chorister for 5 years (Magdalen College, Oxford) and leading the County Youth Orchestra. His musical interests though are rather wide-ranging, “DJ-ing” and “scratching” seem to be serious interests too for any familiar with the modern “music” scene.

With two boys playing the violin and one the ‘cello it was perhaps inevitable that someone took up the viola. The boys are not always generous in their appreciation of my efforts but I find playing together a wonderful experience! Physically keeping up with the boys has become a struggle and whilst Maddy continues to run the annual “Town and Gown” 10k, I have given up! A “dodgy” ankle (recurrent football injuries) means running is no longer the joy it was but I still cycle eight miles a day to and from work and for fun. An enthusiasm for lycra shorts and fluorescent jackets seems to be endemic amongst the class of ‘82! I can’t claim to be contributing much to saving the planet however since my saving in commuter CO2 emissions is off-set by irritating the good burghers of Oxfordshire flying a small plane for fun!

I anticipate episodic trips to Newcastle being more frequent in the next few years but the reunion date I cannot make I am afraid.

Some things never change! I still arrive late for meetings and true to form am sending this year book entry in late too. I often wonder if Gill and Richard are any better than me these days? I hope not! I have fond memories of sharing the lecture theatre steps with them.

Dave and I are still renovating our Georgian house in Nidderdale where we have lived for almost 8 years with our 3 children, a dog, a goldfish and 4 Ryedale sheep. It is a ‘labour of love’ and very time consuming. Dave runs his own theatre restoration business from home and also dabbles in the second hand book market. So the walls of our house are lined with dusty tomes and theatrical relics. He occasionally treads the boards having recently written and performed his own shows about the history of the English theatre.

Our children are still at school - when they are not socialising. We are usually relegated to being very envious taxi drivers. We spend a lot of time doing DIY, gardening, shepherding and visiting family and friends around the country. Unlike many of you we have not discovered the pleasure of jogging but prefer the more leisurely pursuits of dog walking and of course drinking. We have recently been able to rediscover skiing and I am pleased to say have not forgotten how to do it after 1 years break.

In an attempt to rekindle my youth and become an eternal student I have recently become a GP facilitator at Leeds University. This is good fun even if it does make me feel old, but it would be even better if it was in Newcastle. I still work part time in Nidderdale and am about to embark on a clinical assistant post at Harrogate GUM clinic. I guess I am what they now term a Portfolio GP. They say variety is the spice of life!!!!!!!!

I would just like to say that it’s great to read all your news. Thank you Alan for all your hard work and to Chris, Sally and Kath for organising it all. I’m sure it will be a great weekend but sadly we will miss not having Gary amongst us.

Dear Reunioners

Looks like we miss out again. Since last time, from left to right, Laura 18 has gone to UWA to study Law/Arts, Chris 19 has gone to UWA to study Law/Science but is currently backpacking in Europe, I have had an "event" while at a conference in LA (CVA due to paradoxical embolus, complete heart block necessitating pacemaker insertion, pulmonary emboli necessitating 9 days intensive care and warfarinisation), Alison same old plus more blond due to attendance at LA "event", Patrick 16 now in year 11 facing tertiary entrance exams next year and wanting to be a vet, Kirsten 15 in year 10 and no idea what she wants to do. Same house, pets, vices. Visitors have included the Coulthards en route to emigrating to Brisbane and Professor Robson en route to a winery. Family visits have included Goodes, Gunns (of Ashington) Edinburgh and London in January 2007, various bits of Australia throughout the last 5 years. Have a great reunion and skull a few Redbacks and glasses of Penfolds for us.

I’m happily married with an 18-year-old son I’m a part-time GP which I find quite fun I’ve given up committees and being chair But life is still busy, and lived with flair

We’ve recently moved to a brand new home With chickens and cocks and a whacking great loan To try out the good life was our inspiration But the weeds and the nettles are the new perspiration

We have three acres of land, and a derelict barn In time we will have a miniature farm To grow fruit and veg is our ultimate aim With sheep and pigs that we can tame (and eat)

Just to ensure that I have plenty to do A PhD I’ve started too Two years in, and still going strong Another four doesn’t seem too long

Hard to believe it’s twenty-five years Since we graduated with grand cheers Many have had great success and achievement Others have faced challenge and bereavement

To the reunion committee my heartfelt thanks For the stunning events on the Tyne banks For the emails and yearbook and all you have done It is much appreciated by everyone

By the time of the reunion I will have completed 20yrs as a GP in Nidderdale North Yorkshire. Since last reunion have divorced and remarried Thelma in November 2006. Somewhere along the way, we accumulated a large collection of dependant pets- an old dog, a horse, 5 sheep, a budgie and a rabbit. It certainly now takes a lot of organisation to go away on holiday for a week.

Spent the last 3 years restoring a very neglected and old house. We have 4 children between us- 2 at University, a third about to start in September (At Newcastle but not Medicine) and another in the midst of GCSE who wants to be a vet ( at least that will help with some of the bills for the zoo we seem to run). Allowing for all this I suspect early retirement is not an option.

Still play a little squash (very badly) and spend a bit more time fishing.

Involved in GP politics and chair one of our PBC consortia though keep asking myself why.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion

Few life-changing events have taken place since 2002.The seasons in rural Cumbria change to the rhythm of the earth and sun. I continue to call at the vets for penicillin on my way home from work and Kenneth continues to produce milk for 15 pence a litre. Even the animal restrictions due to foot and mouth have come full circle!

The biggest change has been our sons growing into young men, almost by stealth. Paul, 20 years, has completed his first year at Harper Adams Agricultural college, after spending a gap year on a dairy farm in New Zealand. While Richard, 17 years, has not stopped smiling since leaving school last summer. Much more at home with spanner than pen, he has completed the first of a three year apprenticeship as a mechanic.

I continue to work full time at Eden Valley Hospice in Carlisle. In September 2006, I began a 2 year on-line diploma in palliative medicine (Cardiff University). Having been a late-developer where information technology is concerned, I can now be found alternating between awe and despair at the power and cussedness of the internet! E-learning presents marvellous opportunities, but I long for the simplicity of days spent in the RVI ‘New Lecture Theatre’.

High points in the last 5 years include visiting Paul in New Zealand and getting my first optional point!

Dave continues to descend into a fine-tuned eccentricity born of 30+ years practise. He spends inversely proportional amounts on cars as the years progress. Last one was a gem. As he trundled up north one weekend a few weeks after his proud purchase the wipers failed. He said said "no problem, wipers are over-rated anyway, we'll just drive at a speed fast enough so the rain travels off fastest".

He tried running a hostel in NW Scotland briefly, but was finally dissuaded by a concerned relative who pronounced: " I'm not having those weirdos near my children!".

Still loves trips to starnge out of the way places (Sunderland) to make cash purchases from "local characters", eg. a small boat from a tatooed mackem with a prowling rottweiler. He managed to haggle the price UP to £80 as the guy looked "needy".

He still laments all new events/buildings/changes/advances as "rather sad the old ways have gone" (like kids down the mines, eh, Dave) and mourns the introduction of heating to nice old houses when a nice fireplace does fine.

Don't get him started on rules....

Re IT: "oh, I try & keep away from the interweb thingy, it scares me a bit" From his kids: "we're the last house in the world without broadband"

Not much has changed since last reunion-still part time - soon to be senior partner at Long Buckby!

Managed to work my way through FBA in 2006 and went down to RCGP in May to receive award.

The boys are nearly all taller than me now - Charlie gone off to Vet School in Nottingham, waiting for AS and GCSE this summer - life revolves around exams these days!

Over Xmas 2005 We spent a month touring around Kenya- here are some photos of our trip which was fantastic.

Where did all those 25 years go?

Career wise I am settled in General Practice in Blyth, Northumberland with supportive partners who help each other through life’s various scrapes. Medicine is turning out to be a fulfilling career. Without wanting to sound too mawkish I still find it amazing and a tad humbling that people show such trust in me. Besides, what is now blindingly obvious to me, is that I would have been totally incapable of doing anything else.

I found the yearbook entries from 2002 really awe-inspiring. Many ex-class mates seemed to be facing huge personal challenges and lots of you were truly inspiring in your achievements and I am sure I will be reading more of the same this year.

Now, and perhaps because of this, I feel my life is ready to take off and become a bit more adventurous. Our daughters, Jemma (21) and Jess (18) are about to fly the nest (hopefully now I’ll get my car back, dints and all) and I’m ready to become a kid again. Jane, my long-suffering wife, and I are hoping to climb Mt Kenya in the summer followed by camping in the Maasai Mara and for me, at least, that is way outside my comfort zone. And hopefully that will be just a start!

Janey is training to be a Yoga Instructor and studying anatomy to a ridiculous depth just like we did back in 77 (scary hey?)…. and that hasn’t half triggered some memories of long gone days in the old medical school.

Hmmm….My eldest daughter has just read this and thinks it’s a total pile of tosh!

Mark

Having spotted the “R” word in many of this year’s entries, I’m reluctant to admit that I still enjoy work-mostly. I’m Professor of Molecular Diabetes at Newcastle University and lead a talented research group working on the genetics of diabetes. The clinical work ticks over and includes medical student teaching – I’m starting to see a few familiar names, but its OK – your secrets are safe with me!

K remains the bedrock of the family. A big year for us in many ways-double hit of national exams and Alice has just had her18th birthday. She told me that she has now reached adulthood, which is amazing and way ahead of me.

As work involves a lot of travelling, weekends tend to be sedate affairs. I play the odd (in all senses) game of tennis, invest shed loads of passion at St James Park, and spend many winter weekends supporting school boy rugby.

Newcastle remains home and so (to quote Captain Blackadder) we are as likely to move as a Frenchman who lives next door to a brothel.

K

Not much has changed in the past five years. I am still a part-time GP in Spennymoor but my main job now seems to be chauffeur, chief tea-maker and general hand holder to our three lovely children, Alice (18), James (16) and Adam (13). Rather a stressful year for them with A2 exams and GCSEs but they seem to have got through and, in Alice’s case, still managed to fit in a lot of partying. She has a place at Exeter College Oxford to read history from October 2007. James wants to do the sciences and maths to A level, and Adam is enjoying playing rugby and not having to do exams!

I am enjoying life without out-of-hours work with more time for the garden, the gym, the book group (gossip and booze) and holidays, especially skiing with Liz and Los, even though I am back in the beginner’s class each year!

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I've not moved very far since the last re-union and am still working as a Geriatrician at North Tyneside with a special interest in Parkinson's disease. I am the lead clinician for a link between the trust and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, along with continuing research in Tanzania which gives me an excuse to go back there once a year. Carrie and I are stopping at 4 children - Rosie (11), Jessica (8), Ben (5) and William (3), who already shows signs of taking after his namesake, and paternal grandfather, in the sense of humour department. Bang goes early retirement. Injuries allowing I still try and keep active and pushed Paula Radcliffe to her world record in the London marathon - well I finished anyway. Despite adverse family history I still have some hair on my head.

Seeing patients, teaching, audit and research (culminating in a Cambridge MD) – all fun, but after 16 years in the same general practice in Longbenton, I decided it was time for a change in my life. I started out by changing career path and taking up a job as Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin). In spite of the name they do let GPs teach in the medical school. 1.5 million euro of research money and other innovations in teaching led to a promotion to Professor and I was offered the chance to help establish a new medical school in the sunny environment of the Kingdom of Bahrain – at the RCSI-Medical University of Bahrain.

I have now been here for a year and spending my time getting used to a different culture and health service. Promise I will never again complain about the NHS! Life here is slow pace – plenty of swimming, eating out and socialising.

My eldest daughter, Ruth, is at medical school in Hull and Peter heads for university in Newcastle to do psychology next year. Daniel is still enjoying school. I am getting married in early September so cannot be with you. Enjoy!

Still enjoying living in York and working part time in General Practice. I now have 4 children. Peter, the youngest, was in utero at the last reunion, and enabled me to briefly bask in the glory of being the oldest mother. He put me through severe PIH and HELLP in pregnancy but we both got through it and he is now four years old and full of life.

The other children are Stephen, 13 (The actor in the photos), Andrew, 11, and Sarah, 9 (Now a long term survivor of neuroblastoma stage 4!) At work I have never lived down continuing our history of medical disasters by being admitted with a GI bleed on new Years Day!

In the last year I enjoyed setting up and singing in a band up where the drummer and I can briefly fool ourselves into acting the same age as the other 20 somethings. Mick and I also enjoy Ceroc dancing. Looking forward to catching up with you all in September.

Nothing much has changed since 2002 - I am still working as a GP in Norton, and in A&E in Northallerton. I live with my husband, Bob, who works for the PCT, and our 9 year old daughter Molly on the edge of the North York Moors.

I spend most of my time running in the hills, and have just completed a 100 mile race in California. Molly wishes she had a "proper" mum who was interested in pretty clothes and make-up, but likes camping...

Yes Kath, there is space here for that missing update...

Dear “Class of 82 Survivors”

Greetings from deepest and darkest Gosforth, where wife swapping and alcoholism still remain the top activities for the ageing stalwarts of the ’77 Medical intake’…..unfortunately I’m still not invited!

As you can see, we have not moved far. Fiona agreed to marry Mike 20 years ago and surprisingly has stayed around. We have 3 children, all at the RGS, and two cats. Peter, George and Anna are 14, 10 and 9 and each enjoy sailing, ski-ing and spending Dad’s hard earned cash. Peter has joined Ponteland Golf Club and takes great delight in annihilating Dad at every occasion. George is a mean chess player, regularly entering national competitions and also annihilating Dad, whilst simultaneously watching telly and playing “Gameboy”. Anna rides most weeks and Dad does not even attempt to compete on four legs.

As for us, well Fiona is a lady of leisure and is primarily employed as Mike’s public relations officer.…well somebody has to smooth over the old sod’s inadequacies! Mike works as a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Freeman on the same wards he did his house jobs…..no great ambition or achievement there then!

Seriously though, life has treated us extremely well since we returned to Newcastle 12 years ago; we have a very enriched and fulfilled life here in the Frozen North. No plans to move just yet, but we are planning to retire when Mike reaches 60 (only 12 years…yikes!) and then who knows where? Warmth and sunshine appear very appealing; dead envious of those who have taken the plunge and become Antipodeans!

Look forward to joining you all in September

Best wishes, Mike, Fiona, Peter, George and Anna Wyatt

I am still enjoying being a GP in York – more so since the new contract meant an end to out of hours and sleep deprivation! I am currently involved in setting up a community dermatology service in York.

Away from work, I’m a fair weather gardener and am still learning to play the saxophone (with more enthusiasm than talent). I make it to the gym 2 or 3 times a week when there’s nothing better to do (which isn’t often). Having decided I am too old to do the Great North Run any more I did the Moonwalk instead this year. That’s a 26.2 mile power walk around the streets of London by moonlight wearing a bra to raise money for breast cancer. British weather being what it is in May my tastefully decorated bra was hidden beneath two fleeces! My latest hobby is cookery classes at Betty’s (famous Yorkshire tea rooms) – great fun but not for the calorie conscious.

My ambition is to have a branch of Starbucks in our surgery!