Leanne

[abu nuwas]

hi Abu, good to see you post, it would make her have a drink after reading it i'm sure she'll order another bottle to sup while watching the rangers celtic re-runs. we can't build a monument to her greatness but after much thought we decided to dedicate this thread through a link at the top of the home page by lighting her name up in blue. hopefully while this site is here, she'll also be here. For the longest of times she directed the site a moulded it in her image. she was the powerhouse that made us run. in essence she was a stereotypical villain. she'd hand out lollypops while holding you hostage with her ideas on how the world should be run. the love she had for her students was immeasurable as was her love of poetry.

Billy, I realise that she was v influential and active behind the scenes at the site, as well as setting the 'tone'.  It seems that, as difficult as I found it to write a scrap about her, like you, when I do, I cannot do so without some humour creeping in, and I think that says much for her. 

One of the things which was so refreshing with her, was that one could never be sure that she would think this or that, or support such and such-- but one could be sure of something different, another perspective, and all interlaced with wit. When my wife died, she left a note for me and the family ''Never do something because Mum would have wanted it because 1. You do not know what I might have wanted; and 2. because I might have been wrong''  I think that applies to Leanne also. So I may sneak back and go back to my inverted archaisms....  I have been reading so much of her. I see many stalwarts are still here -- and hope you carry it on.  E