If you were wondering whatever happened to Jon Stockton and his hikes around Gloucestershire and beyond? Read on.

Ah! Those Hereford City walks, where I won a sweet for recognising strange ovoid shapes on the side of the Cathedral's (vaginas). He commandeered a dinghy to cross a turbulent River Severn and celebrated a Remembrance Sunday walk at the grave of gay poet Ivor Gurney.

All this gave way, alas, to weekends spent on a rather heavier international club scene. Also volunteering with an HIV Charity, spreading wit and wonder wherever he turned up, the white sash of Mr Leather UK was his for the taking

So it was with joy I learnt that Jon's latest battle has been won – surgery in licking the Big C. We wish our old GOC colleague well in recovery and will hold him to his promise...keeping fit by rejoining us all very soon!