Special memories
- Driving in the snow in Asheville and getting lost s few times (US)
- Our similar Libran ways
- Playing with Carla and visiting Helen and Martin in Asheville
- Visits to Cambrige
- Visits to Gothenberg
- Many heart to heart chats putting life to rights
- Our mutual love of Granchester (and the whole of Cambridge)
- Working together in Duxford - ah those were the best of days
- Volvo.com and Web council meetings
- Punting in Cambridge
- Trip to Stockholm
- Smaka restaurant in Gothenberg
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Letter to Caroline (January, 2004)
Dearest Caroline
It’s been a wonderful year and I feel very blessed to have worked so closely with you and to have become good friends. Here are some of the memories I shall treasure most:
- Punting along the River Cam – beer in hand, and nearly falling off!
- Heart to heart chats about life at Sauce – putting the world to rights
- Driving through the snow in Asheville, how slippery it was!
- Trying to make our minds up about some things, like what to take for tea. Librans unite!!
- You sharing your writing with me – I felt very privileged. I can’t wait to read your first novel!
- Trying to find our way back to the hotel in Greensboro – and laughing the whole way
- Playing with little Carla – you’ll make a great mum one day!
- Having you and Nicholas over for lunch to our new flat to show it off
- Bumping into you after I’d locked myself half naked outside my hotel room – how emabarrassing!
- Reminiscing about Mr Titley!
- Checking my emails and ideas with you before I sent them out into the world – and feeling so much better because I had
- The suprise when I found out you like candy nearly as much as me
- The way your eyes light up when you talk about shopping – and those mega shopping expeditions in the US (I can’t believe I spent so much!)
- Your wonderful sense of humour and your great smile
It’s been so much fun and I will miss you in Cambridge more than you know. We’ll be thinking of you as you return home – and wish you all the happiness in the world. We look forward to having you stay with us in Cambridge soon
Lots of love / Graeme
Poem from Caroline (October 2005)
It was back then, in the fabulous year of 2003
as we first came to meet, you and me.
And I felt already at our initial handshake,
what a super type of extraordinary friends we would make.
And for all kinds of matters, business or pleasure
you sure came to be an irreplaceable treasure
So smart and charming, intelligent as few
you’re always there, able to find the missing clue.
In addition you’ve shown to be just one of a kind
when it comes to understand my own strange mind
Both being Librans - with all what that means -
I’ve often wondered, do we share the same pare of genes?
So how strange it is, my dearest, dearest friend
that this particular journey now has come to an end.
Even though a new exciting one is just about to start,
and I wish you the best of the best with all my heart.
But… don’t you ever think you’ve seen the last of me!
Australia is actually not that far away, you see
One sunny day, when you sense it the least
I will be on your doorstep - expecting a feast!
With all my love to you and Ally,
Caroline
