Hi,

I'm just back from dinner at Shoreditch House with Geoff, my brother and his wife. They are expecting their third child, live in New York and it's great to see them here in London. When we came back, I checked my email and one of the emails was from customer services who had forwarded an email that was sent to them but was addressed to me. It was from an old friend with whom I had lost contact with perhaps 9 years ago or so. I assume that she had googled me and found the website but either way she knew i now had three children and was a founder at IO.

I was so happy she had found me as I had no idea where she lived or what she was up to. Sometimes you just lose touch and the internet gives you the chance to find each other again. Over the years, both Vanessa and myself have been contacted by old school friends, university friends etc and its been so great to get back in to contact. Decades ago this would have been far more difficult, long live the internet.