Its just over a week since Colin's mum phoned Ruth (my wife) and me with the news. She had only just found his address book. Writing about Col is hard. We met sometime in late 1968 (Nov pos) at Alsager College. Col had just started I had been there a year. Half way through his first year he had joined me and the crew running the college folk club. In 1982 we did a job swop - he was my best man in May I was his in August. We are going to miss getting home from work to find his sat outside our home waiting for for a coffee and my annual folk festival visit to Alcester wil be tinged with sadness. One last bit of information I think Col went to his first fesival at Whitby in 1975.