Totally by accident, I came across mention of someone on-line, who is now fairly famous, and was at school with me.
Back in Grammar School, we had three forms per year back then X, Y and Z - I was in Z.
We were a Rugby playing school, and one of the school teams was the "under 13's" - presumably we must have been 13 at the time?, because the "under 13's" challenged each individual form in our year to a game of Rugby. This was a little tricky, as there was only 30 pupils or so per year, and mixed sexes - so it was only just barely possible to get a team together.
Anyway, they played X, and beat them, they played Y and drew - then they played Z (us) - and by half time we were absolutely thrashing them. During the half time break the referee happened to do a count, to find out they had 16 players, and we only had 14
- so gave us one of their players to make the sides even. As you can imagine, we thrashed then even more in the second half ![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
The point of this is that the player they gave us was Nigel Shadbolt, I still remember because he had the same first name (only the second other Nigel I'd ever met), and an unusual second name.
So imagine my surprise when I found out he's now Sir Nigel Shadbolt, fairly famous, and has worked with Tim Berners-Lee.
en.wikipedia.org
Back in Grammar School, we had three forms per year back then X, Y and Z - I was in Z.
We were a Rugby playing school, and one of the school teams was the "under 13's" - presumably we must have been 13 at the time?, because the "under 13's" challenged each individual form in our year to a game of Rugby. This was a little tricky, as there was only 30 pupils or so per year, and mixed sexes - so it was only just barely possible to get a team together.
Anyway, they played X, and beat them, they played Y and drew - then they played Z (us) - and by half time we were absolutely thrashing them. During the half time break the referee happened to do a count, to find out they had 16 players, and we only had 14
The point of this is that the player they gave us was Nigel Shadbolt, I still remember because he had the same first name (only the second other Nigel I'd ever met), and an unusual second name.
So imagine my surprise when I found out he's now Sir Nigel Shadbolt, fairly famous, and has worked with Tim Berners-Lee.
![en.wikipedia.org](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Professor_Nigel_Shadbolt.jpg)