The Living Years (34 page)

Me, aged three, at Morris Lodge Hotel.

Just moved up North!

At scout camp in Wales. Still considering the Navy. . .

Dad in the 2nd XI football team (back row, 3rd from left). Eleven matches: eleven victories.

Me in the 2nd XI rugby team (back row, right). The highlight of my brief sporting career.

My father on gunnery manoeuvres.

Me on speeding manoeuvres, Texas 1976.

Brazil ’77. About to collapse onstage with food poisoning.

Dad looking for inspiration.

My father’s standards never relaxed.

Backstage, trying to convince Phil and Tony to do it my way.

1986. On my way to work.

HMS Newcastle, 1952–3. My father’s preferred method of transport.

Captain William Francis Henry Crawford Rutherford, C.B.E., D.S.O (1906–1986).