Life long buddies.

Steve, Matt & I have known each other for 25 years (jeez, if that makes me feel old, imagine how our Mums must feel....sorry ladies only joking).Fellas that went through school, pubs, clubs, appreticeships & hoilidays together, stuck together through thick and thin,and when it mattered stood shoulder to shoulder as men, together like brothers. This shot is in a pub called The Albert, which was a weekly venture for all of us, (even when Steve split the ranks & went off the rails and went and got himself married, honestly Dawn, that the way that Steve phrases it himself !).So it was quite fitting that we had a night out at the old place. I suppose it had the potential to be a little awkward, nostalgic and slightly lacking of the "old days" because hey,lets not forget here, were all 36 now and all in different stages of our family & career lives, all states of marrige post, present & pending were represented, geographically were not exactly in each others pockets so to speak, we're not so good on the phone etc....but I needent have worried. Steve is married to Dawn with 2 youngsters and the head electrical forman for some big mob in the city and Matthew is (still digging holes and living in sheltered accomadation with Ting tong !)some big shot high voltage leading hand cable jointer working for Englands biggest, so all in all, no one's a rocket scientist but we've all done well. Suffice to say the evening went on untill we were the last ones in the pub, I remember on more than one occasion all 3 of us bent over killing ourselves crying with laughter trying to finnish a story and just genrally remanising about some of the scullduggery & fun times that we got up to when we were growing up in our formative years (which for us was between the ages of 11 to 28). Gentlemen, when I left the pub my cheeks were hurting from laughter and I thank you for it.