OBITUARIES

[Karenh]

Billy Parsons Funeral. Grandads funeral will be held at Bracewell Church on Friday 18th March at 1pm.

For Marilyn - both Uncle Eric and Auntie Daphne are buried at Bracewell Church. Auntie Daphne died in January of this year.

[Marilyn]

Thankyou Karen.
If I ever get over to Blighty again, I shall be sure to visit Bracewell as we have a few relations there including grandparents.

Once again ( I have mentioned this before), I find that a long interim between death and burial ( died on the 5th - burial on the 18th). But maybe that is the way things are nowadays.
We get them sorted a bit quicker over here.

[Stanley]

I'll be there Karen if my back has sorted itself out, at the moment it wouldn't be possible.

[Karenh]

Hi Marilyn. It is a long time and that is quite unusual here too especially in a rural area. Unfortunately our family is spread hither and yon from Plymouth to Dundee and over to Germany so we had to delay to ensure everyone could come. Whilst it will be a very sad occasion I'm sure grandad will be glad to know we were all there. I do hope that if you do indeed get back to Blighty you do manage to visit the church. It's such a lovely peaceful place as I'm sure you know. It always make me feel better anyway. Stan I hope your back gets better soon.

[Stanley]

I'm working on it Karen..... Richard got hold of me yesterday. He didn't know about the Obit I published in the BET this week.....

[Stanley]

Susan is taking me down to Gill on Friday and I will either walk back or cadge a lift......

[PanBiker]

Isn't it at Bracewell Stanley? If so don't attempt to walk back unless you are coming across the fields, which is probably not a practical option. Bracewell Lane is a race track at the best of times with no footpath. I will pick you up if you wish, lets get you back in one piece.

[Stanley]

Bloody Hell Ian, you're right! Thank God you spotted that.... I must be getting old.... I'll stick with Susan going down seeing as that is arranged. If you are going to be there can you give me a lift back?
Over the last two days my old friend Asa Briggs has died and also Cliff Michelmore.....

[PanBiker]

Coming in three's Stanley, see my PM.

[Stanley]

Got it and replied. Ian is looking after the Old Fart, he's going to pick me up at the church after the internment.... What a good man! Thanks Ian.....

[Moh]

Ronnie Corbett died aged 85 - loss of a great comedian.

[Cathy]

Oh dear, I did so enjoy him when he sat in his huge chair and told his very long stories and jokes.
RIP Ronnie Corbet

[Tizer]

Then like me, you'll enjoy this Cathy...
Have a good laugh in his memory:
`Ronnie Corbett's best jokes' BBC web page LINK

[Sue]

It is sad but I was never a fan. I found him very irritating

[Wendyf]

Same here Sue.

[Stanley]

I watched the tribute programme last night. Still funny......

[Nolic]

One that might have been missed with Ronnie passing yesterday, Thunderclap Newman "Something in the Air" keybords player in the late 60's early 70's. Nolic

[Sue]

Sorry Stanley but I never found him funny, except when he was with Ronnie B

[Wendyf]

One that might have been missed with Ronnie passing yesterday, Thunderclap Newman "Something in the Air" keybords player in the late 60's early 70's. Nolic

Love that song, it takes me straight back to my first year at teacher training college 68/69 when we all came out on strike for 6 weeks!

[Moh]

Denise Roberts -agony aunt on This Morning.

[Tripps]

This one sounds like one for Uncle Bob.

Joe Medicine Crow

Quote -
"“The government tried their best to transform (Crow) people into the ways of the white man,” Medicine Crow said. “Yeah, they tried, all right. But we had what you might call cultural persistence.

[Nolic]

Merle Haggard, country singer, aged 79. RIP. Nolic

[Stanley]

I was going to flag him up Comrade. I love some Country and Western and Merle was one of my favourites....

[Tripps]

This news doesn't seem to have spread far, in the media, from Cambridge yet.

Sir David McKay

Remarkable blog - the link is in the article. I've had a quick look, and he does not seem to have been able to accept what was happening - even up to the end. Must admire his determination though.

[Tizer]

Thanks for mentioning him, Tripps, and for the link. I've come across his name often in connection with climate change and sustainable energy and heard him on the radio but I hadn't heard about his cancer. Only 48 years old. His blog is amazing, still writing on 12th April. I recommend in particular reading the 10th April section where he has a go at the hospital for lack of efficient, modern temperature control on the ward. His writing is pithy, for example: "In front of and slightly taller than the window sill are two killer robots., also known as enormous radiators. These 1.6m wide times 1.2m high impositions steadily belch out, I don't know, kilowatts of heat into our room. [I bet this heat counts as wonderful "green" heat and gets special government credit thanks to being produced by combined heat and power... but that's another rant.]"

Another example: "The hospital has shelled out thousands of pounds per bed on useless telephone-TV devices, which sit unused above every bed, switching themselves on automatically, glowing away and causing light pollution. The existence of these absurd telephone-TV installations proves that the hospital is able to retrofit modern technology into its wards. It just happens to be the wrong technology and a waste. So how about spending a similar amount of money, per bed, on making sensible, patient-centred controls for maintaining a pleasant ambient temperature? "

What a man. What a loss.

Professor Sir David Mackay's blog