Remembering Greatnan - Carol Sheridan

Thank you for posting here kiwifi. This week has brought back so many memories - many sad, but even more happy. Your mum was a good friend and an excellent hostess in her little Alpine flat. We had such good times driving around those hair raising mountain roads - and I never had a doubt about her driving ability. And I'd never have got to know her without Gransnet for which I will always be very grateful. With love to you and your family.

Isn't it incredible that through the power of the world wide web, Carol's daughter can communicate with us, a whole bunch of strangers, yet all linked by shared experience.

in memory of a Great Gran(snetter).

Very much missed. And nobody else has provided us with such a constant supply of awful jokes to cheer us up.

Perhaps we should revisit the old list and start recycling them again. In Carol's Honour.

I find myself thinking of her at sort of "odd" moments, can't explain but I think she would have understood!

Kiwifi

Kiwifi

Thank you, kiwifi. Your mum will always be remembered by those who 'met' her here on Gransnet. x

in memoriam

Thanks kiwifi for your posts. Thinking of you, and sending loving thoughts x

We have planted lots of trees! I haven't bought a bench yet as for a while I considered selling this house. We moved in the day Mum's car was found, I flew out to France and wasn't involved in unpacking so it took a long time for it to feel like home. I couldn't see the point of keeping a house with a flat that she would never live in. We scattered her ashes on a beautiful mountain that we climbed with her, so she isn't here. I make a monthly donation to a children's charity (Kids Can) in Mum's name and I will go on doing that for as long as I live. I would like to put up a bench for weary travellers somewhere but I haven't found the right place yet. Mum's hearing aid, which I had persuaded her to invest in, went to an elderly lady in the Cook Islands. She had wanted to be an organ donor, under the circumstances that wasn't possible but at least she was still able to help someone else which would have pleased her.

Thank you for thinking of us at this difficult time kiwifi

did you ever plant a tree and put a bench up on the hill F? Many of us wanted to contribute to that. xxx

Thank you to everyone who has posted in this thread and to everyone who helped last year in the search for Greatnan. I am Carol's daughter and I find it very comforting to know that she was so well liked and remembered by her friends on Gransnet. This has been a very difficult year as you can imagine, we had planned for Mum to come to New Zealand permanently so that I could nag about her reckless behaviour and she could ignore me and find even more perilous tracks to climb in the beautiful mountains over here. She was an absolutely amazing woman, I'm very proud of her, she has left a huge hole in our lives, but she has also left us a lot of wonderful memories.

I hope someone from her family drops in on GN and spots these tributes. Anniversaries especially the first one can be difficult times.

Dipped in again, at what seems a very apt moment. don't think I have bothered to check up on the happenings since 'Greatnan" Carol left us.
We clashed 'in public, often, but our Pm's were another thing. As many of you are aware, she had a wicked sense of humour.

An inspirational, kind, clever and generous woman, much missed

Goodness - a whole year ago! A wonderful lady and greatly missed

A sadly short-lived friendship; a lifetime of wonderful memories. Thank you Carol.

RIP Carol.
And a hug for you Granjura. I know how much you did to get the authorities looking for her and at the same time supporting her family.

GreatNan disappeared on today, the 27th- but last year it was a Sunday, the day after time going back.

It was such a beautiful day yesterday- and my thoughts were with her and her family- as this very tragic event brought us close. GN was only found on the 6th of November, just 1 hour after her daughter, 2 grandsons and myself arrived in her resort. It is so sad that she had become more and more keen on taking more and more risk- as she was so looking to spending Christmas in NZ and emigrating there 1 or 2 years later.

But she has been spared the inequities of old life- and for that we should be very grateful. RIP Carol.

When an older thread is suddenly resuscitated, it seems quite normal to see Greatnan in the middle of some discussion or argument, but a small shock at the same time. She was a good friend to me as well.

Icy I remember you arriving, so concerned and wanting to help. Your posts were comforting, knowing you were over there in that area.

I just looked on last year's 'Tributes to Carol' thread to find this from one of my posts - it's the image I still get of Carol when she comes into my thoughts.

'My abiding memory is of us tootling along mountain passes in beautiful autumn sunshine, windows open, with Katherine Jenkins and Maria Callas arias emanating from her CD player, singing her head off. Just where she belonged.'

I do think of Carol's family who are approaching the first year anniversary and will be remembering the events of last year with sadness.

On a slightly different note - her anonymity has been completely lost through the events surrounding her death and I do hope this hasn't caused difficulties within her wider family.

The year has gone fast. I first really came to GN because Carol was missing, because I was out in the Alps when it happened, and joined in the search in a small way. again to those of you who knew her, or 'knew' her.