As 2016 ended, we found ourselves mourning the loss of what seemed like an unfair and disproportionate number of good and influential people. Among them, hardly noticed amid the more glittering celebrities, was the teacher Michael Armstrong, who died in March, aged 81.
Though I could hardly claim Mike Armstrong as a friend, I did meet him in the 1970s, and spoke to him on the phone later in life.
He was close to my own age, and I came to regard him as a role-model whose qualities and achievements remained frustratingly beyond the reach and capability of a jobbing chalkface worker like me.
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