May 07 - Last Days Shell

After 2 and a bit years at Shell, it was time to go. We had some wonderful times and I met some great friends. Before I get into the farewell party side of it, there were some 'healthy' moments like joining the swim team for the Corporate Decathlon in which we came second and the races I entered...second....100m back & 2 relays, but we had tremendous fun and it brought back many memories from the teenage years and the various chlorinated ponds we used to inhabit all those years ago.
Then came the farewell party. Here are 'the girls'. We are usually ever so quiet...... Gill, Lorraine, Nat, Hobbsie and Me. I don't have that many pics of Nat here but I think she must have taken most of the photies instead of being on our side of the camera!! Nat and I reckon we spent more time in each other's company some weeks than we did with our other halves!!We were missing some colleagues who could not make it (Eloise, Kathleen, Olu....the Hague contingent...Terry...oh boy - a lot of them, but I will still see them all around town I hope!

Nat and Mike...naughty ABAP man...

Becks and Phil (with his shirt on!)

Haren, Sid and Valeria

Mike and Graham....we have Mike to thank for introducing us to some new friends, the League of gentlemen.....and local things for LOCAL people...yiessssssss

Joz, Tressan, Steve and Jerzy

Warren sort of munching in background, Lorraine, Hobbsie and Gill

This is Nat with Andy (Hobbsie's boyfriend).