Being in Sydney for the first time ever I felt I just had to look up a friend of mine who lives there and catch up after so many years. Sam and I used to work together in the heady days of Riley Manchester, where she was an Account Director and incredibly popular with so many clients. Sam comes from Sydney but got waylaid on her world trip by meeting a lovely man from Wigan, Neil, who became her husband and meant she spent rather longer in Manchester than she’d originally intended! After their two children, Gemma and Jonty, were born, Sam and Neil headed back to Sydney to bring up their family and, apart from via Linked In, we rather lost touch.
It was great so see Sam again, looking the same as ever, though perhaps more relaxed, despite combining family life with a demanding career and involvement in Neil’s business – must be all that Sydney sunshine I hear so much about but didn’t see that much of! Poor John, had to sit quietly as we caught up on 10 years and remembered the happy times we enjoyed back in Manchester when we were revitalising the agency.
It was a lovely evening, over far too soon and I do hope it won’t be another ten years till we catch up again – though it’s always going to be tricky with 17,000 km in between!
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