I met Malcolm on our first day of the infants class at Tetherdown Primary School Muswell Hill in September 1952.

A childhood spent on the disused railway line behind 62 Church Crescent and Highgate woods, the Woodcraft Folk.

Psychedelic adventures around Crouch End and the Queen’s pub outing to Margate between 1969-74.

One sentence postcards because his writing was so large, the stamp always upside down. Art, music and much more. Friends for 70 years, Sail on…