I can't remember when Chris first came into the Middle Bar, but it is a very long time ago - probably twenty years. Alan Whitbread and Mike Gibson have both testified that he was already part of the furniture when they arrived, anyway. He was a welcome member of the Bench driving team before his illness, and added humour and imagination to our sessions as well as rather a lot of welly!

My abiding memory will be of Reunion 2004, when he joined us with such gusto and good spirits. Thankfully we have sound and visual records on the MBS site to refresh our memories of Chris - not that anyone could ever forget him!

We will want to make a tribute to him at Reunion this February, but he would have hated a minute's silence or anything prolonged or morbid. And anyway, it is with huge pleasure that we will always think of him, is it not? Ideas, please, especially from those who knew him best?

Tony