To be fair I never saw him falling over drunk - just in good spirits! I’m not sure ‘weak at the knees’ really fits 2RS, although I would be the first to say that I found JFM to be an engaging character and fun to be around, he was a good conversationalist and knowledgeable about a lot of things as well as the clobber. I quickly assessed that most things he said about himself had to be taken with a lorryload of salt and that, providing you allowed for that, he was alright. Eventually however, some of the things he was saying and doing decided me to keep my distance, like the sketchy claims to be suffering from cancer which were later established to be false. At one point I had an email from Patrick Nahman, who I think had been duped, informing me that JFM had passed away (some years before he actually did pass away) …then a few weeks later I was not a little surprised when Jimmy rang me up and said that he was alive and well and it had all been a big misunderstanding. When I asked him how Patrick N, who I’d never even spoken to, had got my email address, he was slightly evasive and said that someone on the forum must have given it to him. After that I decided that I didn’t wish to be involved with someone who was acting that weirdly.  None of this is to lose sight of the fact that poor old JFM became a very troubled person who had a particularly sad end to his story.

May I suggest delicately that we leave the subject of JFM and old complications of the foum now. It feels time to step onwards and future new joiners won't have the old context.