Beverley Jackson

Dear Beverley,

I really hate goodbyes so I have opted for the classic ‘note’.  I tend to get emotional when I part from someone who has been in my life and is difficult to say bye to.  I thought better to say a few kind words instead rather than the obligatory handshake or pat on the back.

When I arrived at the college I found myself stuck on the end desk with no one to look at but you.  Thank God for mercy it could have been Dunc!  You have always been there to help me – because I reckon I spent quite a lot of my first few months asking you constantly questions again and again.  You did the British thing and smiled, showed the upper lip and answered me again and again with very helpful and thoughtful advice.  You made my welcome very welcoming and at times I thought I was a right pain the arse.  You never said so and always helped me.  I think it is time to discuss the stapler incident – I feel like one of those neighbours that borrow a lawnmover and never returns it.  I honestly cannot remember when I ‘got’ the stapler and based on my short and long term memory have forgotten it.  Too much information in my head makes other bits leak out!  I only know that when I was in with the C3IS one day in May Steve McGhee said ‘does that say Bev in tipex’.  You being you never brought it up but I wish you had – I certainly wasn’t going to.  Thanks for the best help ever, good company and of course the stapling device. J

I would have loved to stay at the college and loved Dumfries and am sad to leave you all.

Kindest regards to you Bev,

Matt

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