Talk:Sid Perou

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I remember Sid when we were both working at RAF Lindholme, circa 1960 in the Meteorological Office. We were living on the RAF Camp at the time and I was amazed the way he would go off caving straight after a night duty. Sleep did not come into his itinerary

His other great love at the time was playing the clarinet in a jazz band in Doncaster

One particular incident I recall was when both Sid and I were on night duty but prior to this we went out for a drink, only a couple pints or so with a third member who was in the Met Office as part of his National Service.

We had a system in those days where if two were working a night duty, we would divided the night into two, then we would choose between us who would have first and who would have the second sleep.

It ended up that I was getting the second sleep but the effects of this couple of pints caused me to drop off to sleep almost straight away. I was woken up by Sid and also heard the tele-printer bell ringing. (We were doing hourly observations).

With amazing speed Sid had a quick look outside then sent off the previous hour’s observation with slight differences.

At the time I was just a callow youth and should the contents of this ever get to him, I must apologise heartily. He was none too pleased at the time.

I am pleased to see that he has done so well and over the years I can say that I have seen him crop up on the tele a couple of times.

As for me I never had the slightest interest in potholing though it was very nice to go down the Blue John Caves for instance as a tourist. Otherwise I thought it far too claustrophobic.

I left the Met Office a few years later and ended up with two children and now 3 grandchildren.

Mike Meehan