I was shocked to receive notification that Nicholas had passed away on 13th January 2021. I first met Nicholas over fifty years ago, in autumn 1970, when he, I and four others started our undergraduate lives reading Geography at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. We were friends - attending lectures and tutorials together - for three years. We both left Emmanuel in 1973 to pursue our separate paths - Nicholas to Newcastle to undertake a Diploma in Town Planning and me to a higher education lectureship in Hertfordshire. However, we kept in touch over the years and met occasionally at Emmanuel College's Old Members' reunions and our informal "Class of 1970" Geographers' lunches. I was almost a decade older than Nicholas (I was a mature student at Emmanuel) but I was always in awe of Nick's undoubted intellect. He also had a mischievous sense of humour. I know that Nicholas was suffering various health issues but, nevertheless, I could never have imagined that he would pass away before me. This wretched Covid-19 virus, which has so cruelly taken Nicholas away from us whilst he was still comparatively young (at only sixty-nine), is responsible for so much human suffering and misery. Farewell my old friend and fellow Geographer - you may be gone but you are certainly not forgotten.