The Sunday Telegraph’s rugby correspondent, Paul Ackford, was presented with a Harlequins shirt at half-time as the club recognised his retirement from the paper after 20 years. Ackford said: “It was fitting that I ended my writing career at the same place as my playing career.”
Lummee.
And I can remember when he first joined the paper too. I can even remember thinking, after the first few columns, blimey, this copper/ex-international can write, can\’t he?
Tempus fugit etc.
Is it just me, or are policemen retiring younger these days?
As Uncle Fred said after meeting a school friend who had somehow become a greybeard, this sort of thing blurs my perception of myself as a young man, standing on the threshold of life.
Mind you, he’s retiring at 55. That’s barely old enough to be a hero in an action movie, nowadays.
Shouldn’t your title have been “Doesn’t life half fly past”?