Angus Tulloch (via email on 19 October)

I certainly enjoyed, and learnt much from, the two and a half camps attended in Austria and the one visited near Leeds in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Clare colleagues also involved included Tom Franklin, Graham Fitt (I think), Jim Kendra, Nigel Whittaker, Charles Stern and Malcolm Sharrock – the latter three forming a fund-raising band mischievously called and advertised in Mariapfarr and Bruckdorf as ‘John Thomas and his Swingers’. I do not think any of the locals clicked though. My job was to chivvy the locals to pay up.

Also attending were Marianna (a young and inspirational Hungarian lady) and the irrepressible Jaan Rajamets. The children, mainly with Hungarian and Czech refugee background, were delightful and much better behaved than my own. Eileen Rogers and Fiona Sneddon from Homerton also joined in at least one camp.

Tight budgets, probably blamed on Peter Watson (!) at the time, with a long week-end spent pushing a bath on wheels from Cambridge to Bath via London in relays with F-D (and Peter?) acting as back-up, ending up in the fountain at a university there – very unproductive financially, I suspect, as very little money in the bath at the end of the trip, but great fun.

Definitely a character-forming experience.