It has taken me a while to know where to start when I think about all of the memories we have shared! To be honest we were lucky that we hit it off straight away considering that within a week of meeting in July 2010 we were spending more time with each other than anyone else! Between the 2 hour round trip from Dubai to Abu Dhabi every day and the fact that once we did get to the office we sat alongside each other, we had plenty of time to cement our treasured friendship. During those car trips I would sit in anticipation never knowing what random playlist you were going to play! We would spend those couple of hours every day sharing stories, talking about our families, chatting about the latest head-scratching episode of Lost, singing songs and most importantly trying to win competitions on the radio and get our requests played. In one of our last car trips back to Dubai after a long day at work the radio finally played our request and that sunny afternoon we laughed and sang in the car all the way home. That was just the start. Since then we have created beautiful memories that I will cherish many of which involved music from singing along with Take That in Media City in Oct 2015 to laughing until I was sore when we realised that we both could rap Gangsters Paradise from start to finish :). Our final dinner together last Christmas meant so much to me and the kids always loved when their Auntie Samaa was coming to visit – even Len enjoyed the slagging you would give him for being a Liverpool fan, although he did this best to revel in their success the last time we all met :)
I have watched you with enormous pride as you have worked with such determination and passion while you purposefully carved out an incredible career and I have loved you for taking so many people on the journey with you. You always have time for others, you have always given such strength to others even when you should have been using all of your strength for yourself. Thank you for being the most incredible friend and mentor. You have always encouraged me to push myself, you were never happy with good enough, you wanted more for me than I wanted for myself. Len, the kids and I will continue to think of you every day and we will talk about you and the memories that we will cherish. In that way you will stay with us always. Love, Linda xxx
It has taken me a while to know where to start when I think about all of the memories we have shared! To be honest we were lucky that we hit it off straight away considering that within a week of meeting in July 2010 we were spending more time with each other than anyone else! Between the 2 hour round trip from Dubai to Abu Dhabi every day and the fact that once we did get to the office we sat alongside each other, we had plenty of time to cement our treasured friendship. During those car trips I would sit in anticipation never knowing what random playlist you were going to play! We would spend those couple of hours every day sharing stories, talking about our families, chatting about the latest head-scratching episode of Lost, singing songs and most importantly trying to win competitions on the radio and get our requests played. In one of our last car trips back to Dubai after a long day at work the radio finally played our request and that sunny afternoon we laughed and sang in the car all the way home. That was just the start. Since then we have created beautiful memories that I will cherish many of which involved music from singing along with Take That in Media City in Oct 2015 to laughing until I was sore when we realised that we both could rap Gangsters Paradise from start to finish :). Our final dinner together last Christmas meant so much to me and the kids always loved when their Auntie Samaa was coming to visit – even Len enjoyed the slagging you would give him for being a Liverpool fan, although he did this best to revel in their success the last time we all met :)
I have watched you with enormous pride as you have worked with such determination and passion while you purposefully carved out an incredible career and I have loved you for taking so many people on the journey with you. You always have time for others, you have always given such strength to others even when you should have been using all of your strength for yourself. Thank you for being the most incredible friend and mentor. You have always encouraged me to push myself, you were never happy with good enough, you wanted more for me than I wanted for myself. Len, the kids and I will continue to think of you every day and we will talk about you and the memories that we will cherish. In that way you will stay with us always. Love, Linda xxx