A colleague corrected him: this was true only of One and Two.
Nearby, a colleague who had carried out four burials that day, was less sanguine.
In the end it wasn't Jeremy Clarkson's racist, homophobic or sexist comments, but a "fracas" with a colleague that became the final straw for the BBC, long urged to punish its highest-paid star.
When Josh Crumb and his colleague started out, they just wanted to figure out a way to allow people to pay for a cup of coffee with gold.
He stepped down in 2011 and was replaced by his political protege in the area, Margaret Ritchie, who described McGrady as "not only my mentor and colleague but a very dear friend".
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.37pm BST14:37 Deir Azzour: 'The shooting on the city is continuous' Our colleague Mona Mahmood has been speaking via Skype with Auss al-Arabi, a resident of Sheikh Yassin district in Deir Azzour: The shooting on the city is continuous.
My colleague Ewen MacAskill remarks: "Well at least he didn't cry".
Khalid Majid, a resident of the city's Hamidiya district described the situation there in a Skype conversation with our colleague Mona Mahmood.
She and a colleague, Dominic Kane, were among 20 people accused of spreading false news, bringing Egypt into disrepute, and conspiring with terrorists.
Another senior colleague stopped me in the corridor: "This is very rare," she said.
He was an inspirational colleague, an adventurous field-worker, a lover of life, a loyal friend and a superb cook.
