This is an impression of life on the student fringes of Reading University from 1970, and includes reference to the debauchery and drug taking of that era, and its lack of aspirations. From an insider view.

9. Starring
Mike Kussin

12. Co-Starring
Steve, Man

14. And
Dave aka Dan

16. Introducing
Ray

18. Featuring
Algernon St. John
Hurd (Algy)

20. With
John who used
to be Ken

22. Special Guest Stars
Derek and Helen

24. Back to 1970

33. Next Day

68. Some Time Later

75. The Next Day

79. Later...

98. A Few Evenings
Later...

120. A Trip
Back Home Again

136. Ray has bought
a tent with his compensation, and
there are tea-lights in the boot.
They settle down for the night
under a pink moon, with the tea-
lights burning on the cliff above
them

139. Later On...

148. Back in Reading:-

155. Ray rolls a joint
and some of the
others come back

159. Some Days Later...

171. On to Reading
University
Students’ Union

177. Some Time Later...
Was it July or
August ?

183. The new academic
year begins at the
university in
October

199. Later, it’s
November

208. A move to Tilehurst
promises a warm
home

222. Ray comes
back a few
days later

228. Some while later...

237. At A Later Date:-

249. Is This Trouble
Round The Corner?

254. 1 Barnstaple Street
In 1971

275. Sometimes there
are meetings with
other occupants

278. And more drugs
and laughs

288. A few days pass...

309. October rolls on...

315. They keep warm

348. What happened to
them – where are
they now ?

350. Mike went to live with a
girlfriend at her parents’ house
on the banks of the Thames at
Wargrave and may have got a
public school job such as High
Court Judge, human rights
lawyer or merchant banker

352. Steve graduated in History
before getting a job at a girls’
school near Rome

354. Ray spent 17 years in and out of
mental hospitals before being
rescued by Margaret Thatcher’s
community care

356. Derek pulled himself together
and got a job as a bricklayer’s
labourer on a building site

358. Rose’s parents made Algy an offer
he could not refuse :- a one way
ticket to Amsterdam, where he
was reported to have died from
alcoholism and neglect

360. Dan followed Algy to Amsterdam
where he caught the clap from a
European chick also named Dan.
He was last seen in London with
most of his teeth missing, with
those remaining blackened.

361. The End