Margo Wheeler

12th June 1951 – 16th June 2014

Sonnet for a Superstar

by David Underdown
(written for Margo’s 60th birthday, three years ago).

Margo, how can you be sixty? There’s no way
you’re old enough to be a pensioner!
We gasp at what you pack into your day –
as Viking, vet-wife, rugger-mum, photographer,
piper, Hifar evangelist and now, Lord bless
us, hydro-electric entrepreneur –
the way you do it seems so stressless.
You are a bon viveur, a connoisseur
of life! And only yesterday you hitched
that ride home through Afghanistan, a Logan who
became a Wheeler (fixed but free) and pitched
back into life at Spring-well (as you do).
To the Logan who’s the Shogun of the Corrie Hall,
our high-tech priestess with the mostest of them all!

(Skipness 12 June 2011)

With the great generosity that was so charactistic of her, Margo helped to set up the online Voice for Arran, and we look back with warmth and gratitude at the time we spent working together. We will not see her like again.