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A short summary of events.

• Suzanne was born in Shanghai along with 2 other sisters.
  
• The family returned to the UK when the Japanese invaded Shanghai in 1937.
• She came to the village school in Bulkington, Warwickshire, and that was in Bulkington that the friendship with her good friend Edna began.
• She left at 14, studied and qualified as a shorthand typist.
• During WWII Suzanne's Uncle adopted a Chinese boy from his Chinese wife's sister.
• Suzanne's Father got a job in the Persian oil field in 1942. The family went out in 1946.
• All the British had to leave Persia in 1952, and in 1954 Suzanne took a job in London and moved to a flat at 50 St Georges Avenue, Tufnell Park.
• Edna wanted to move to London and then shared the flat with your Suzanne.
• In 1954 Suzanne married her first husband and they moved to Beirut but had to evacuate twice due to civil war.
• They decided to separate then divorce and Suzanne went to Jordan to work with a journalist, Noel Barber, who was writing a biography of King Hussein of Jordan.
• Suzanne returned to the UK in 1961, met and married Guy Barnard who she had already met in Beirut.
• Serena her daughter was born in the 1960s.
• Suzanne ran her own business called Home Interchange from their London flat and made use of her own job by swopping into wonderful holiday homes every summer.
• 1980s the family moved out to Kent and continued to Sail in Burnham-On-Crouch most weekends.
• Other pass times such gardening with the family in Kent and Essex and joining many social groups such as WI, Probus and most recently Chairobics. 
• Farningham and Lullingstone Churches were very close to her heart where her flower arranging skills were put to good use. And her Lullingstone Castle House Tour Guide role kept her equally busy. 
• Not to mention making many long standing strong friends and hosting many dinner parties through her journey of life.