Best images - 2004

Letter to Caroline when she left Cambridge

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

Volvo Headquarters - Gothenberg

Volvo flags against a sun rise - amazing cause it is was around 9 am!! I was in Gothenberg for a day. My last business trip of the year. I'm looking forward to a quiet Xmas, far away from airports and planes.

Sales & Marketing Team

Here's a picture of the whole team. We had a good teambuilding meeting at a college in Cambridge this week. We got an actor in the do some exercises with us (part of the teambuilding) - tremendous fun and very enlightening too. Our president took part too with gusto. Nice to do some acting again - last time i did role playing was at school!

Surfing in the buff

Sitting by the heater, doing some surfing... Oh for that South African tan to be back!!

Volvo Xmas Lunch

Our office lunch party. Didn't win anything in the raffle unfortunately but I have my complimentary Xmas hamper to look forward to next week. Jenny and Richard both work with me in e-business. I kow the photo of me is a bit psycho but it was the only one!

Stockholm

I spent a day and a night in Stockholm. I was there with Caroline to do a consulting workshop on a project I'm working on. A really nice city built on lakes with a hip, happening vibe. We had a Swedish Xmas lunch at a traditional restaurant in the old city. Like a huge buffet with everything from raw pickled herring (delicious actually) to cold meets and salads and hot dishes. You typically go up 5 or more times and totally stuff yourself. My kind of meal! My plane back to the UK was supposed to leave at 9 pm but was close to 3 hours delayed and we spent most of that time in the stuffy plane. Only got to bed at 2:30 am. Whoever said business travel is glamorous! The second photo shows one of Stockholm's most distinctive landmarks. I got a nice walk through the old city on the way to lunch.

Sammy, the Mouse

Oh my God - what a cutie!! Sammy was a mouse in the Wizard of Oz ballet on Saturday. What an adorable mouse she makes. Come to think of it, she'd look cute in any costume. Sammy will have her tonsils out on Wednesday. We wish her a speedy recovery and lots of jelly and ice cream.

It's the Naked Chef! (Ally)

While in Boots, we spotted our friend Jamie Oliver. He reduced me to a giggling school girl groupie. He's so adorable. I bought a book just so I could get a little closer. Jamie has his own online blog.

Day in London (Ally)

I went up to London today and had a wonderful time. I met Kerry for lunch and we went to the nearby opened Spur close to where Kerri is working for the council where she is being excruciatingly "underchallenged" . She is celebrating the fact that she's just got her "indefinite leave of stay" in the UK. Wonderful!! Then I saw Sally for a hot chocolate and jean shopping. Sally returns to Cape Town on Sunday and I'll really miss her after having her close for a year.

What some people will do for charity!

It's been charity week at work, meaning that several of our colleagues have been dressed in strange outfits to raise money. The little cakes were delicious...