Where have all the Met folks gone long time no hear, Surely not passed on.
Keith I hope someone remembers you, bit after my time. GOOD LUCK.

Hi everyone. Well I finally got round to contacting the group. Tending to be somewhat quiet in the background during my Met days, few may remember me. After leaving the mob in 79 my wife and I emigrated to NZ. After careers in Agriculture and Steel I finally retired in 2007.
I never really shook off Met and these days concentrate on cloud photography. To fuel the obsession I joined Cloudspotters to hopefully expand my appreciation of the science.
To relive those days at sea doing weather obs I am travelling by container ship to Tilbury in July / August. The original urge was the chance to transit the Panama Canal. All up the trip will take 32 days at sea with at least one long stint away from land between NZ and the canal.
To juice it up a bit I plan to keep a journal with daily obs. Being a dork I left my Met notes on board Tiger when I left. I have managed to download what is the closest to our synoptic plot from an American website, but for the life of me forget which was red.
I am sure the ship will be sending out weather obs and hope to pal up with the Nav or whoever does them.
Once in UK I will be knocking about for a couple of weeks looking up a few mates as well as dealing with my other obsession…Land rovers.
If this doesn’t happen to correspond with any planned reunions no worries as I hope to visit the UK the following year for my old schools 400th anniversary.
Trust everyone is well and not catching the late snow!
All the best

Keith