Keith and I lived very close to each other and we and others spent our younger days paddling in local streams and trying to catch sticklebacks and the very occasional roach etc. Keith and another Keith, as teenagers, both became Saturday boys at Fred Buller's tackle shop, Chubbs of Edgware. Speersie became'Chunky' and my later to be best mate became'Bubbles', Keith Sellick. We all and another, Stan fished a lot together before branching off into our own specialities but
we'd often bump into each other.
Sadly Speersie was present the day Keith Sellick and A N Other drowned in Savay lake and some years later Stan went the same way fishing at Windsor with Speersie. A small barbel was attached to his rod, in the water.
Don't know whether I should count myself lucky or not. If I could choose my way to go it would be the same way as Speersie.