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John & Judy Saville -- Christmas Letter
2004
Gable Cottage
December 15,
2004
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You may have heard that 2004 has
been a difficult year for us and that we spent most of it apart – each
on our own side of the Atlantic. John visited Judy in February and May
but we decided to stay apart. However……….
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“Reports of the death of our marriage are greatly
exaggerated”….John Saville After Mark
Twain.
“The separation just didn’t work out”…….Judy
Saville
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| In August we both realised that we
still wanted to spend the rest of our lives together so John visited the
US for 8 weeks in October and November and we returned together to the
UK on December 5th. In future we plan to spend our time more
evenly between US and Europe.
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| John has continued to be involved in
Formula Student as Deputy Chief Judge
(as well as participating in Formula SAE in
Detroit in May). He was invited to join the I
Mech E Motorsport Committee. He gave a couple of talks on “IT @ F1
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| 2004 was the first year (ever) he’d
lived on his own and got great satisfaction from “homemaking” and his
love of, and expertise in, cooking has been greatly extended. |
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Judy worked most of the year for her
former employers,
Mobile Ed Productions which provide educational programs for school
assemblies across the US. She worked very hard at re-decorating the
Redford house which had suffered from several phases of tenants.
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| We have both kept up with our
singing, individually and together. In the US we have been worshipping
at Aldersgate Methodist in Redford and in the
UK we join with the
Exning Anglican churches. |
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John’s mother is now 81 but keeps
very active with her work at Kingsley Hall in Dagenham: regularly
attending the Sunday worship; as treasurer of the Tea Dance which Dad
ran for 18 years; and on Fridays helps with the “old people”; she has
given up the yoga! In May she was mugged in the road she’s lived in for
the past 60 years. She was hurt and had several out patient visits to
hospital and is much more circumspect about talking to strangers.
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| Jeremy has had several jobs during
the year. He has provided us with a grandson and granddaughter. |
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Jacob was born on February 19th.
John has visited him and his mother, Yvonne, regularly through
the year. |
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Sky was born on November 20th to
Jeremy and Sharleen who currently live in Harlow. |
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Martyn continues to work at building
fences and other landscape gardening. He has started doing private work
at weekends and had a bad road accident when taking slabs to a customer.
This closed the A12 for 2 hours and he was very fortunate to escape with
minor injuries……..though bits of glass still need removing from his arm.
Fiona continues at the Diamond Trading Company sorting diamonds and it’s
possible she and Martyn may have an opportunity to go to South Africa
for a year.
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| Judy’s son, Charlie, lives at the
Redford house and is still working for Masaba Airlines (subsidiary of
NorthWest Airlines). He’s had a couple of promotions and now works in
the control centre including communicating to the pilots which stands
they’ve been allocated. It does mean he gets cheap air travel and so we
hope he and his girlfriend will visit us in January. |
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Her
daughter, Abby, still lives in Florida and we were able to visit her for
a long weekend in early November. She’s just changed jobs to working in
an upmarket jewellery store – so we have “daughters” at both ends of the
diamond business!
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| We are looking forward to 2005,
dividing our time between UK and US and hope to see many of our friends
in both countries….. |
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We wish you a
very Happy Christmas and every blessing in 2005. |
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John & Judy |
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