In the meantime, here's a collection of ice hockey related photos in - more or less - chronological order:
Presenting the match puck at John Lawless's testimonial match Peterborough Pirates v Fife Flyers, December 1986.
I'm the one in white with the puck! This was a training session for the Peterborough Spartans C (rec) team and I imagine I probably got clobbered by that huge defenceman very soon after this photo was taken!
Interesting people in this photo - apart from me (back row, 4th left) - are:
John Tague (front row centre) former Pirates netminder who played as an outfield player,
Andy French (front row, far right) - who was Pirates team manger and went on to be the GB team manager - here he was bench coach.
Bill Glover (back row, 2nd left) was the Pirates physio and also a champion road race cyclist.
Pirates defensive import for that season Gary Stewart (back row, far right) - not quite sure what he was doing there, actually...
Me in the abovementioned charity match. My biggest claim to fame here is that I was wearing Todd Bidner's shirt! I scored an impressive 0+0=0 with 0 PIMs, although I did manage a few SOGs... There was a video taken of this game, altough I have never been able to track down a copy.
Full colour action from the same event. Looking menacing on the blueline - during a stoppage in play, by the looks of the referee and the opposition bench in the background...
Showing the Germans how it's done - well, standing still in the middle of huge iced-over lake at sunset, anyway...
Playing ice hockey on a frozen pond in the north of Germany circa 1995/6 - still nowhere near the puck!
I reported on the 1998 European Junior Championships in Luxembourg for 107FM Radio WAKY / Europe 2 and for the "Luxembourg News" magazine. Interestingly enough, the IIHF official observer for the tournament was Frederick Meredith, former head of the BIHA...
Still showing lil' bro' how to do it...! Public skating session at the Kockelscheuer rink in Luxembourg, spring 1998.
In August 1998, I - rather bravely, looking back at it now - volunteered to go along and help out the Trafford Tournament, which was a tournament held at Altrincham Ice Rink over the August Bank Holiday weekend. I don'r rmember who played now - certainly Altrincham Aces, Bradford Bulldogs, a team from Kingston (Hull) and I'm not sure who else- but I certainly enjoyed this experience immensely and over the course of the day, I graduated from selling raffle tickets to being a goal judge. 
I dragged Lucy all the way to Altrincham from Preston (where we were then living) to see the first league game of the season and we both fell in love with the place and the people. It was nice friendly atmosphere and they seemed to appreciate the fact that we wanted to support them. I helped out when the regular goal judge wasn't available and also learnt how to use the scoreboard and was stand in timekeeper a few times as well. 
Altrincham Aces last match of the season - April 1999
This is the cover of a book that I am working on - well, have been working on for about 10 years -
but keep getting distracted.
I have fascinating interviews with really interesting personalities from the world of ice hockey and I really ought to knuckle down and get them into some semblance of order.
In no particular order of importance, I have interviews with: Dave Graham, Ken Taggart, Luc Chabot, Chuck Taylor, Mike Andrews, Ron Katerynuk, Marshall Uretsky, Trevor Cogan, Roy Halpin, Garry Unger, Tim Peacock, Steve Rattle, Doug McEwen, Gary Newbon, Jaroslav Lycka and a lot more besides. With the wonders of the internet and Facebook etc that we have now , I should be able to track down even more people to contact as well so this project could really take off again - just right for the 30th anniversary of the Heineken British League!
