After leaving Port Erin I started work on PhD research at Bristol in the Research Unit for Comparative Animal Respiration under Prof. George Hughes.I was working on the effects of pollutants on the respiration of Brown trout. However I soon realised that I should have heeded a warning from Chris Bridges about strange rumours concerning R.U.C.A.R. and Prof. Hughes.

Suffice to say that I left two years later having achieved very little and gave up all hope of completing my thesis. By now I was broke and decided that I would have to enter the evil world of commerce or starve.

I spent a few months doing temporary work for Suffolk County Council ( where I met Pauline) and then in summer 1978 started work as a medical representative with Beecham Pharmaceuticals working in Suffolk and Essex. I had intended to only follow this career for a couple of years and then move into marketing, however I found that I enjoyed the relative freedom of being on the road and surprisingly I proved to be a successful salesperson. I really could not face the prospect of being office bound and so stayed on the road . As a result of subsequent mergers I worked for SmithKlineBeecham and then GlaxoSmithkline where I remain until today.- Clearly a man totally lacking in ambition!

During the October 2006 half term holiday, Brenda and offspring visited Dot & Mike's lovely home near Lowestoft and managed to track down Graham, last heard of living in nearby Wangford. He hadn't moved far fortunately and we succeeded! He met us in a local pub (where else!) for a lovely evening.