Today we launch our new website - you probably already know this because it is through that or our newsletter that you have found me. Believe me, we are happy and relieved to be revealing this helpful and pretty website to the world, and we would be flying a great big flag of happiness if it weren't for the fact that there is another flag on our minds...
Yes, mes amis, today we also pay tribute to Lloyd Morrison - a great and passionate New Zealander, who has died at the tender age of 54. Lloyd was the employer of one of Gail's greatest supporters, George. The active gourmet travel even has one of these new design flags that Lloyd gave Gail in France. It is, of course, now more treasured than ever.
I have certainly done a lot in my short life - especially for a portly hippopotamus - I have a nose for fine wines, I love to paddle my own waka and, as for fashion, I am the hippopotomi of sartorial elegance, not to mention extremely well connected and travelled. But to see what Lloyd Morrison achieved in his lifetime is mind blowing ! His contributions and interests stretched from cultural and social, to political and commercial. He began a campaign to change the national flag and he helped launch the Phoenix Foundation onto the national music scene. And MUCH more besides. The NZ Herald tells a little homily about Lloyd that tickled me:
"Unsworth recalls bumping into Morrison while queuing in Woodward Street to buy morning tea to celebrate a staffer's 50th birthday, but Morrison insisted they come up to the Infratil offices.
"We went out for muffins and came back with champagne and half a dozen bottles of pinot," he said, recalling Morrison's love of fine wine, as well as a dashing fashion sense and an impish sense of humour.
Hah ! You see, he was just like me - an impeccably dressed, funny old wine connoisseur. Ah, bon voyage Monsieur Morrison, you will be missed not just by us but by a nation.
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