As many may already know, one of our dearest fellow MGF friends has recently passed away. Ted (aka the "Green Squirrel") unfortunately passed away last week, having battled many illnesses.
He was a great personal friend - who I've known since at least 1998. In those early days, there was just one MG internet forum, and Ted was a frequent poster and fellow enthusiast. This felt like the birth of the internet and the MG Bulletin Board was the "Wild West". In this crazy town of a forum, many a lively debate and discussion was had (remember the periodic "flame wars"?) - with some of the classic discussions leading to Ted being immortalised in cartoons:
It was through the incredible Treffens that Ted organised and led that I think most here will recall Ted and his wife Karin. Both had huge wealth of experience in organising overseas trips (I am sure Ted had a PhD in herding cats - a very necessary skill!), and using their incredible local knowledge, would organise transcontinental through breath-taking, memorable landscapes, taking in wonderful, unique small hotels, on trips timed, it seemed, to the millisecond.
Ted was a fantastic driver and he loved to drive. He didn't hang about either - and that suited everyone who joined him on the many continental trips.
Don't spare the horses and don't loose the following crowd!
Ted has a truly international friend network through his love of his MGF - an MG that he kept until the bitter end. My thoughts and deepest sympathies go to Karin; we shall all miss this charming, lovely man who was definitely the embodiment of the "Marque of Friendship".
