SIMON has been my Professor, guide & well-wisher throughout my career and will continue to be. Our first meeting was sudden, when I arrived in England and we met in the OR changing rooms. As I blurted out Good Morning Sir, he spun round and scowled; “Never ever in UK would you call me that, At the worst call me Prof” he said. It took Simon ten years to get me to call him Simon, such was my respect for him. He has been the driving force and laid the foundation for my Shoulder career. 
Research and training were two of the most powerful forces that engulfed him and he had a near perfect alchemy of humour and determination. How on earth he managed to wear so many caps, I have no idea. I accompanied SIMON during his first Visit to India in 1999 and that led to several trips to India. Simon has touched many lives across the world - western and developed. Simon had a huge body of work on nerve transfers, elbow replacement and reconstructive procedures. One of his pet subjects was compressive lesions of long thoracic neuropathy. He used to describe a tender spot / tinels sign over the mid axillary line. Although this has not been published, I find it a useful sign to endorse a clinical diagnosis. For my documentation and when teaching my students I need an eponymous name for this. I refer to this sign as “ Frostick sign” and in fact all my students recognise it as such. When I related this to Simon, he was quite smug about this and brushed it aside as nothing. I realised that since it was unpublished, it did not carry much weight to this Oxford educated clinician who became a professor at RLUH at a rather young age. I have known Margaret who has been pillar of strength and a perfect foil to Simon. I wish the family all the strength and courage to overcome these difficult times. In our thoughts Simon will always remain the guardian and Guru that he always was. RIP Ashish Babhulkar, Pune, India