Sadly our friend Bruce passed away this week. We were fortunate to have enjoyed a lovely weekend with Bruce and Carol just a few months ago at their home near Cromwell, getting guided tours and enjoying their hospitality.
Bruce was a great storyteller in the mould of Billy Connolly, based on life stories with perhaps a hint of creative license, dryly told over a nice meal and glass of something. He’d been a journalist, had worked in Papua New Guinea, worked on the Clyde Dam, helped start up Kiwibank and I suspect many other things we didn’t even know about.
He was also a rock music fan, particularly of Status Quo, and it was so unfair that he lost most of his hearing and couldn’t enjoy one of his main pleasures in life. Even on our last trip when his health wasn’t the best he was still wearing an Alice Cooper tour shirt to breakfast and chipping into conversations with good humour.
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