Ascension : From the Editors Page
Submitted by The Islander (Islander Internet Editor) 31.07.2008 (Article Archived on 14.08.2008)

Dear Readers, After five (mostly) sunny years on Ascension, it is now our turn to bid our island friends farewell. We figure the time will come for all of us.

We arrived in 2003 as two single twenty-somethings and will leave next week as the Ascension-married Knowles family, in our 30s, and taking our Ascension-born daughter with us!

We hope to look back on our time here with fondness and happy memories, and feel sure that we will stay in touch with many of you.  In fact, we already have our first ASI visitors booked in for October!  The rest of you can make bookings by email when your flight’s confirmed!

There are two people who are just too special for us to be able to summarise in this small space what their friendship has meant to us, so we need to resort to time old wiseness to help us out.  There is a proverb that goes something like this, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish and he will spend many an evening drinking Castle on the rocks!”  You know who you are!

To our pupils past and present, friends, colleagues, drinking buddies, fishing partners and all fellow islanders, so long!  You will hold a special place in our hearts.

We would like to leave you with one of our favourite sayings:

IT’S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT, BUT IT’S MORE IMPORTANT TO BE NICE

All the best,

Paul, Catherine and Beatrix

PS: Drivers, keep waving!