Seeing all those passé clapped out dead beat faces from yesteryear can sometimes make you think you’re on a roller coaster to the grave. And if you’ve really made it big, these get togethers of the old gang can become tight lipped occasions of resentment. It is rare that bygone comraderies can do anything but tempt you to drink more than you should or make you utterly teetotal with distaste.

But if you have suffered failure and defeat and have mustered the courage to crawl out of your little niche where you’ve been hibernating over the years cooking with your lonesome skillet while hearing of the marvellous things your long past peers have been doing, here is your chance to make up for it. Straight off get laughingly stinking drunk. You’ll make the assembly a happy one by letting everyone refer to you as look at that poor son of a bitch. Especially if you choose to wear only the old school insignia upon your nudity while stomping your war dance hullabaloo and singing the old school song. It will of course be your farewell reunion.