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From: Paul Bullivant
Sent: 11 November 2003 16:00
Subject: Clayesmore Memories revisited
Hello Michael...so you caught up with me in cyber space. I have no contact
with Clayesmore comrades apart from occasional pints in our local with Mike
Manson [a couple of years after us] who lives round the corner from me. I also
visited our former art teacher, Noah Morris, in New Zealand a couple of months
ago during a journey around the world which I did with my wonderful family over
the summer. Noah and I were and are quite close and it was good to see him again
after quite a time apart. He is as inspiring as ever though he has not been well
and lives in a small and quite isolated community on the south east coast of
north island. I am almost embarrassed to say that we did reminisce about
Clayesmore [if only to slag it off] and conjured up a number of the old art
shack faces with a wistful "where are they now?".
You enquired about memories of Harrison Birtwhistle who actually taught me
clarinet. If you are in touch with Hugh Thompson [his contact address
disappeared from my screen and my lap top's memory] you could tell him that fact
and that I do have one or two anecdotes as well as some manuscript paper on
which Sir Harrison wrote a short practice piece for me - now worth a few bob if
it had been signed! I went on to play saxophone in a number of jazz groups [and
a rock band] in Bristol during the 1980s but now restrict my playing to Baroque
music on the flute sometimes in the company of others constituting a wind band
known locally as 'Gone with the Wind'.
Having been an architect, then a Chief Executive of a social housing
organisation, I am now a part time photographer and also study for an MA in
documentary photography which is both demanding and stimulating.
Enough of me: hope all's well with you: thanks for the contact: pass on my news
if you want but meanwhile keep healthy and happy.
Paul [once of the art shack!] Bullivant (61 - 65)