The Dreambook for Adrian Nicholas
-one of the greatest men i ever meet-

This site will eventually be moved to http://www.adriannicholas.com but for now it will be hosted here at http://www.friflaj.com, hopefully I will be able to provide this site with some of the amazing stuff Adrian did over the years.

If you have any pictures you would like to submit please do so by sending them to glenn@friflaj.com

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The two songs that where played during the

Committal at Bournemouth Crematorium.

David Gilmour - In Concert 2002 - Hushaby Mountain

David Gilmour - In Concert 2002 - Je crois entendre encore

(Right click and chose Save As, they will only be here a short while)

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THE ADRESS

At Adrians service I was asked to give the adress(last greating). I know that Adrian he was proud of me while doing it. He was proud of us all on the sadden day. Some people asked me to put my adress on the site and here you have it...

Hejsan, Hello, Hey.

My name is Glenn and I'm one of Adrian's friends from Sweden.

I thought it was going to be hard to get up here and talk up the man who just would’t stop talking. Well, what am i supposed to say? What haven’t he already said himself?
Well if it was that important he would have left us a note with complete instructions with every single little detail.

Of course I could stand here for hours and hours and dwell about all the amazing stuff that he achived. Adrian was a great man:
Not because he could fly, cause he actully could, how else can you end up in the Guiness book of records for having acchived the world longest freefall.

Adrian was a great man, not because he used to be the eye in the sky at capital,

Not because he jumped the Da Vinci chute, he even jumped over the wall of china.

Adrian was a great man, not because he was on the front page of the Wall Street journal.
Not because all of his work with Help a London child and the Stoke Mandeville Special Olympics.

Adrian was a great man, not because he was a licenced cave and technical diver. He even where a pilot for both aeroplanes and helicopters.

He wasn’t great because he skydived and landed on top of the northpole(one of the few jumps he was wearing shoes)

Alright, all of these things made him a truly remarkable man but...

He was a great man because he was a true friend, my friend, he was our friend.
He made us all do stuff that we never ever would have gotten around to do if it wasen’t for him. When you visit the dreambook on the internet you realise just how many people he touched, moved and inspeired.
Whenever asked how come he got to be so inspirational, he always gave the same answer. Growing up I was always lead to belive that I could do anything... anything at all, even if it was flying around just like Peter Pan i knew I could do it.

Adrian may have acchived many great things.
But the greatest thing of all was Ella.

He was searching for so long and eventully he found completeness.
A lifetime partner, a great house and now the perfect child.
He was always playing around with the kids and now finally he got to experience it him self. The joy of having a daugther, the true feeling of being a proud father.
Yesterday when Ella had her first birthday I’m sure he was standing outside watching us all, barefoot of course like always, smiling, chering and singing with us.
Seeing us all the last couple of days over in the little cottage would have made him so proud.
Together, laughing, crying, talking, remembering and celebrating. If anything good should come out of all this I do hope that it is people uniting and not dividing and drifting apart.

Adrian told me that I had to meet his nephue little Stephen a great little chap, well now i have meet him and Yes he is a great little chap. Yesterday he even called me the cool guy. Well Adrian belive this, I will meet him again, I will meet the family again. Since I’m now part of of it. And they all truly are just as great as you always painted them out to be.
United we are strong, united we will remember.

Im sure that Adrian is crusing around in heaven with Patric, stopping of at granny for tea, (even once in a while, he is out looking for the dead parrot.)

So i guess Adrian that this is our goodbye, see you soon, hej då .....averua...
I have allways been so proud of being one of your friends, I will never forget.
Thanks for forcing me to eat sushi.
Thanks for showing me the shuttle launch.
Thanks for introducing me to red wine.
Thanks for opening my eyes.
Thanks for saving my life.
Thanks for making me live my dreams.
You truly where one of the greatest men I have ever met.

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So eventually the thing I last expected happened. There was no way I thought that I would be sitting down writing on a page like this. Just only a couple of weeks before Ella’s first birthday.
My thoughts are with Katarina and Ella. I’m so grateful that I got the opportunity to be part of your life and I truly do feel blessed for being one of those who can call you one of my friends.
I don’t know what to say… not now, maybe in a couple of days or so.
All I can say right now is thank you for making me a better man and thank you for believing in me and showing me a greater life.
At least until things have settled down. Right now it is all unreal.
Please do raise that glass of wine in memory of Adrian and please do remember him by being just as safe as he tried to teach you all to be.

Free@last                                           

Glenn Johannesson glenn@friflaj.com

Adrian Nicholas deceased 17/9/05

Photo: Simon Ward & Annica Bryan

Sound: Voice of Adrian Nicholas