Sir Thomas Beecham said you should try everything once in this life, except Morris Dancing and incest. I'm not with him on the Morris Dancing. But I think I'd be tempted to add school reunions.

But that's probably because I'm a coward. I just don't think I'd have anything in common with the people I was at school with. I can imagine all these aging strangers trying to put a positive spin on lives that never turned out the way they thought they would. "Successes" and "failures" moving cautiously round each other like feral dogs.

But spaw's probably right. What's to lose? A few embarrassing encounters, which could be the raw material of good stories anyway. Set against that tere is the chance you might meet some people again you will really be glad to meet again. Like a good funeral, if you are lucky.