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The Life of Ann Napier – By Geoff Napier  Ann was born in north London to midwife Agnes Mary Macaulay and Woodcrafter Ernesto Alfredo Caschere. She has two sisters and a brother. From the very earliest moment of her life she realised that the world she was growing up in...

A Tribute to Ann Napier More years ago than either of us will care to remember, and exactly where I do not recall, I met a very young Geoff Napier who was manning an MBS bookstall. He told me that it had always been his and his wife’s dream and...

Dearest Ann You’ve written so many letters to your dear Cygnus members, I thought I’d write one to you. I’m sitting here,surrounded by your presence. The nasturtiums sway and dance with the cornflowers and I imagine you singing away to yourself, and to them. Every chirp of the young sparrows...

Somewhere in the silence and sadness of this hazy moment, the Great Swan is flying strong. The spirit of Cygnus lives on, guided and fortified with the same sustenance from which it grew, when Ann planted that special seed 23 years ago. I imagine that Ann is flying now in...

Ann was a true light in the world, her inner light inspiring all she did, her extraordinary positivity and courage and her fundamental belief in the goodness inherent in the ’Book of Life’, despite the trials we all have to undergo, and which she in no small measure suffered. The...

My connection to Cygnus has grown and developed over a number of years; it was Geoff who introduced me to the company but Ann who guided me through the various roles here. My memories of Ann – and there are many – are strung together by the warmth of her...