Robin, the Lovelock Family, & Sunninghill

See Robin's dafter hobbies on the Trans Atlantic Model page. e.g. GPS-controlled robot boats.
For recent news and pictures of the Lovelocks, please visit our 2009 News Page
For earlier years see 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00& Parachutes , 99 , 98 , 97 and 96 and 95 pages.
For Robin's page about aerial filming of the Red Kite birds in the Chilterns, click here
For Robin and June's GPS treasure hunting hobby, see the geocaching page.
Why put family pictures on a business web site ? - Robin's open approach to business
For pictures of Robin & June's Italian Holidays, including Sicily, visit the Holiday Page
Checkout Robin and June's hot air balloon flight on 1st September 2007.
For more pictures and history of Sunninghill in Berkshire, UK please click here.
For Robin's UK Hospital campaign, see www.NHSCare.info or click here.
for Scott & Saskia's wedding page click here
Michelle asked for this link to be added for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity
Michelle offers accommodation in Coventry near Warwick University : www.lovelockhomes.co.uk
Robin's friend Gary has maintained the Lovelock family cars for years. Gary's site is here.
Into Lovelock Family Trees ? Robin's branch is written up on pages 12 & 13 here

Hi ! Welcome to the Lovelock "family" pages. These pictures are for our many old and new friends outside the UK, and also because it's nice to know with whom you may be considering doing business. Over the years I've found these family pages helpful in getting new business contacts to overcome their shyness in telling me who they really are :-)

Many of the pictures below were taken a few years ago, when this web site was new, and I had a moustache, but some are more recent - like those on the pages linked above, June and myself on the left, and that on the right of our cat Ginger being "wound up" by one of our many toys. Most of the text below was written in about 1997, I think, and is still mostly true. We have all grown a little older, of course, but the women remain as lovely as ever ;-)

Yes ! for those of you that did not already know, Scott and Saskia got married on Saturday 18th June 2005 at Saint Michaels - our local Sunninghill Church.

The weather was fantastic - as was everything else including the vintage wedding car, which added a little extra "spice" to the occasion by breaking down twice - but still managed to chug its way to the reception at Bisham Abbey.

At the time of writing this, the happy couple are on their honeymoon, and Robin is gathering together all the many still pictures and videos.

You can see some of this material on the wedding page.

Sorry that it is only those who were at the wedding who will get to see all the material on DVD - far too much to put on a web site - even this one :-)

Saskia, Scott, Michelle, Robin, June and Samantha at Christmas 2003.

Samantha in Central Park, taken by June on their trip to New York in 2001, not long after 911.

Robin's dad Len passed away peacefully at home in January 2002, and this poem, which echos Len's philosophy, was read at his service: "You can shed tears that they have gone, Or you can smile because they have lived. You can close your eyes and pray that they'll come back, Or you can open your eyes and see all that they have left. Your heart can be empty because you cannot see them, Or you can be full of love that they have shared. You can turn your back on tomorrow and live for yesterday, Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday. You can remember them, and ache that they have gone, Or you can cherish their memory and let them live on. You can cry, and close your mind, be empty, and turn your back. Or you can do what they would want, Smile, open your eyes, love and go on." Robin's mother Evelyn Lovelock passed away at Holyport Lodge Nursing Home on Monday 24th February 2003. Robin's charity site www.NHSCare.info is dedicated to Eve and Len Lovelock.

I had several enquiries on the source of this poem, after something similar was used in the service for the Queen Mother. People found this family page with search engines. I asked Jan Francis, the humanist officient who suggested this poem, before she conducted the service for dad. Unfortunately she could not remember where she saw it. Thanks Chris Ross in UK, and more recently Brian Ritter in the USA, for information on the origin of this poem. It seems the original, entitled "Remember Me", was inspired by an unrequited love, and written by David Harkins in 1981. Many believe, as we do, that the re-write for various memorial services has improved it. It is interesting that David Harkins was born on 14th November 1958 and my father Leonard Lovelock was born on 14th November 1915.

The following was written a few years ago.....

GPSS is the brainchild of Robin Lovelock, who describes himself as a "not so mad scientist". Until 1995 his career had been in advanced military computer systems. He "cut his teeth" on computers in the '60s, worked for ten years as a senior scientist at an overseas NATO Research Establishment, then returned to the UK and worked for 13 years with a British Defence Contractor. He has always been involved in software, the largest project of which was £20 million within a £100 million project for which he was the System Design Manager. However, he knows that, in the world of software, big is not normally best. He started his own small GPS Software business, "Sunninghill Systems" at the end of 1994. Sunninghill Systems is a small family business based in Sunninghill, near Ascot in England. For the home and office address, please visit the CONTACT Page.

Robin and his wife June run the business, but their three daughters - all computer literate - take an active part. All of the business is confined to the supply of software for GPS based systems. They only supply software, and as a matter of policy will not supply hardware. Robin is however, happy to provide free, objective advice on the selection of hardware, or the design of a total system solution. The intention is to develop links with other companies better able to supply hardware or systems. Please see the HISTORY Page for more detail, including the Business Strategy of Sunninghill Systems.