Then there was Leeds, where some of the intelligentsia of the sixties and seventies were able to meet for supper at the very nice Olive Tree in Headingley.

Earlier in the day, we had visited some of the new generation seeking their higher education in Yorkshire - here are some of us at Bodington Hall and York .

Edinburgh in the summer was brilliant fun. It was a mixture of theatre, jazz and Scottish tradition, like Greyfriars Bobbie (who sat at his master's grave for about 14 years until his own death), the Crags near Arthur's Seat (where Liddell used to train - but not on Sundays - as in "Chariots of Fire", remember?), and strange graffiti in the tunnel near Pollock Hall.