While sorting my desk area, I’ve come across a lot of photos from my teens. Here’s some that might amuse.

A while later, I was mates with folk in two Worcester bands, 69 rampant cowboys in backless trousers and The Iranian Teaspoons. I don’t have any memorabilia from the first but here’s the Teaspoons’ logo. Over to you to guess what they did with their teaspoons.A while later, I was mates with folk in two Worcester bands, 69 rampant cowboys in backless trousers and The Iranian Teaspoons. I don’t have any memorabilia from the first but here’s the Teaspoons’ logo. Over to you to guess what they did with their teaspoons.

I think I was about 15 here.

I think I was 16 in these photos.

These must have been from when I was 16 or 17 and trying out for my school’s Ten Tors team. The second photo is the end-of-course routine – you can imagine what teenage public schoolboys did.

A while later, I was mates with folk in two Worcester bands, 69 rampant cowboys in backless trousers and The Iranian Teaspoons. I don’t have any memorabilia from the first but here’s the Teaspoons’ logo. Over to you to guess what they did with their teaspoons.

Finally, this must have been from when I was 19 and about to leave Worcester for St Andrews and serious <ahem!> study.