I do, thanks to an old mate from my New Guinea years who recorded this wobbly video in the world's largest sandbox, Saudi Arabia, more than forty years ago, with the stated intention "... so you can remember in twenty years' time what you looked like".
After our years on the Bougainville Copper Project in New Guinea, we had by chance both finished up in Saudi Arabia, he working for Butler Building Systems, a "civilised" Saudi-American joint venture, I for a chaotic Saudi family business as the only Westerner in an office full of Lebanese, Pakistanis, Eqyptians, Sudanese, Iraqis, and Syrians; he living in a comfortable villa in a Western-style compound, I in a five-star hotel strictly obeying Islamic laws. Working six days a week left us one day, Friday, to occasionally meet up either in my hotel or in his compound.
It was at his compound that he recorded this video. It shows his charming wife Leila, their kids Jenny, Mark, and Kristen - who have all grown up, but he still hasn't! - and a camera-shy yours truly trying to read a Wilbur Smith novel in Jeddah in 1982. He was both cameraman and narrator but his prophetic words "... so you can remember in twenty years' time what you looked like" are twenty years off the mark.
