Ok, for the benefit of those not on Faceache
Myself and the wife went down to the funeral last Friday as you know, and we stayed down for the rest of the week touring Somerset, Devon etc and had a great time.
Big thanks to my wife for supporting me, Pete and Debs,Chad,Chris Wheal and Jonathan who turned up and did the site proud ( even though someone wore his " Achtung Spitfire " tee shirt
Guess who ??
I was asked by the family to say a few words which I did to the best of my ability, so I guess I was representing you guys who wanted to come, but couldn't make it. I mentioned this at the time. I wore my Kilt to bring a bit of Scotishness
to the funeral and I added a bit of humour which I know Geoff would have liked.
The family are really chuffed to know Geoff had a great time with us and are hoping to meet up soon at one of the meets, possibly Achitibuie. They had no idea he was so well liked and respected by the XRV/Big Trailie fraternity.
I invited anybody at the funeral to attend the National in Geoff's honour and I think a couple are interested.
Geoff will be returning to his adopted country next year, his ashes to be spread over his favourite hill for one last visit. I am meeting Geoff's daughter next month at Belladrum, she is using Geoff's ticket
, so I will see what the craic is with that.
Lastly, many thanks for all your comments over the past few weeks, meant a lot to me.
Geoff and I got on really great together, I have lost a very dear friend as I know most of you have also.
He will be sadly missed.