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Okay, found some suitably old/dead photos to post. My great-grandparents, married in 1909. Their son and his school in 1918. My granda's that one down the front. He ran home on the first day.

Perhaps to make this a little easier to keep track of next time, perhaps we should use DATES - like within a two month period. So we could have said, for example, 16. March. 3.April, etc. That said, I choose the number 31.

This is my great granny and grandad, he was the Mayor of Calne in the 60s some time.

Today and for the next few days we keep an eye out for that elusive butterfly. A DDP hit on 29 February. Let's hope another 4 years doesn't have to pass.

Looking on the positive side, you might not need the pension.

Death Notice for Betsy Byars: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/greenvilleonline/obituary.aspx?pid=195538881 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0125694/

End of the month so bringing this forward: Who The Flack Is Next? Round Up #3: Caroline Flack: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51517973 Pearl Carr: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/02/17/pearl-carr-one-half-popular-1950s-singing-act-husband-teddy/ Harry Gregg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51400376 Henry Gray: Awaiting Obit. Jean Daniel: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jean-daniel-obituary-rcvfh75lk Andree Melly: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8062137/Last-surviving-cast-member-Hancocks-Half-Hour-Andree-Melly-dies-Ibiza-home-aged-87.html. Chitetsu Watanabe: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-man-watanabe-21570400. Katherine Johnson: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8038399/Legendary-NASA-mathematician-Katherine-Johnson-dies-101.html. Sonny Franzese: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8038623/Notorious-Colombo-crime-underboss-John-Franzese-Sr-dies-aged-103.html. Diana Serra Cary: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11034752/silent-film-star-baby-peggy-montgomery-passes-away-at-101-close-to-a-century-after-the-child-star-retired/. Hosni Mubarak: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51630142 Olof Thunberg: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1247377/greta-thunberg-latest-news-instagram-update-activist-climate-change-grandfather-sweden. Nexhmije Hoxha: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/nexhmije-hoxha-widow-of-albanias-dictator-dies-aged-99 Clive Cussler: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51644229 Michael Medwin: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51649817 Sudhakar Chaturvedi: Awaiting Obit. Freeman Dyson: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/01/freeman-dyson-obituary. Pete Felton: Awaiting Obit. Lenox Hewitt: Awaiting Obit.

I'm in - round 2 sponsored appropriately by Corona coming up in 32 hours.

I just realised that because I use the old family computer and there are saved stuff from when mum was using it, the back up of family tree photos would be here. Low and behold and 20 minutes of searching I have some images - though not sure on everyone's names or when they were taken: This is titled - "Walker family with Daisy" My mum was born 1953, this is her parents, brother and two sisters in 1951 on a seaside trip. Now only my two aunts are still alive in the photo. I don't know who these people are but it is titled "4 generations" And of course I had a relative with this name. Meet "Percy Charles with his mother Fanny Tutton":

Still got to say, poor old Dennis Chinnery went rather overlooked in 2012 too...

In recent days one of the hosts on my radio's 60s station was mentioning quite a bit how the 8th anniversary of Davy Jones's death was coming up. Dying on Feb 29 is pretty much the only way one will make such a deal about the 8th anniversary!

1920 Fanny Waterman /Arnold Yarrow 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Ray Lawler 1922 Betty White/Dilip Kumar 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Chuck Yeager 1924 Zizi Jeanmaire/Sheldon Harnick 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Gudrun Ure/Leonard Fenton 1927 Leotyne Price/Frank Windsor 1928 Estelle Harris/Tommy Docherty 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle Thanks @YoungWillz

Well...nowt to hide if your mob are lined up too They're tilted against these titans, or summat: 1. Hans Sommer 2. Eileen Ash 3. Frankie Banali 4. Anne Buydens 5. David Gulpilil 6. Nick Hitchon 7. Lee Kerslake 8. Genesis P. Orridge 9. Tom Smith – joker 10. Nobby Stiles 11. Peter Tobin Sub Alex Trebek

Awaiting my copy of the “Mysteries and Myths of Death List Gaming” (shorter concise edition in 8 volumes). Once I’ve read, digested and understood I may start playing some of the more arcane competitions, races and games on here. Give me about 3 years and I may get there

You don't think her Majesty could be posting on the forum in disguise do you?

An excellent display of top-lipped topiary there!

Hm...

I have my theories. Italy never found Patient Zero, from which the contagion started. It is very likely that patient zero was someone who went to a Chinese "massage center" (read: prostitutes) and got it there. Some weeks ago regions in the North asked the government the right to quarantine everyone comig back from China for 14 days. Government denied, defining these measures as "unnecessary" and "racist". Ironically it would have probably prevented the whole thing. Anyway come back to patient 0. An elderly farmer from Codogno zone, or whatsoever. He goes to the massage center, and in the following days he develops fever and pneumonia. He doesn't think at all to be checked, so he continues working and infects dozens of other people. These people infect hundreds of other people. A great number of them probably dies in hospital, their deaths being classified as due to "pneumonia". No one in the hospitals even thinks about checking coronavirus. Government insists there is no coronavirus in Italy. This goes on for weeks, maybe a month, with hundreds of infected people who think they have a common flu. Then so-called Patient 1, a 38-year old manager from Codogno, goes to hospital with acute pneumonia. Once, twice, they never consider him. By the time he goes to A& E twice he infects many patients with coronavirus. Some of them will later die. The third time he goes to hospital, with his conditions rapidly deteriorating (he is currently still on life support), his wife says he has met a colleague who came back from China, some time ago. They test coronavirus and it is positive. His pregnant wife is infected too. From there hundreds of infected are found, 17 deaths happen (but may be many more). Surprisingly the manager who came back from China never had coronavirus, so he is not Patient Zero, though members of his family are infected too. Seeing that the virus has circulated for weeks, and mainly for their fault, government goes postal and decides to quarantine a vast zone. A week later, seeing that this is damaging economy and international relationships, they turn to the "it's a common flu" thing, in a very clumsy way. Reality is different: 1)It is a flu-like disease, but has a mortality rate 1000 times higher than flu. If it spreads virtually to the entire population it will cause thousands of deaths. Statistically. 2)Deaths won't be restricted to the elder/ill (as their lives count less), but young people will statistically die too. It could be everyone and nothing can be done. 3)Most of Italian population will actually get coronavirus, me included. So don't be fooled, government never had the situation under control.

The Japanese man being reinfected is worrying. Could be once you get it you never defeat it? Unless they develop a vaccine. Could be the cold equivalent to HIV. Rumours the second reinfection gives you a heart attack. Look out for that. Of course it was once a rumour you could get reinfected. https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-risk-of-reinfection-2020-2

Oh cool. I've got loads. Found a big box in my late grandfather's attic with lots of old pictures. A lot of the pictures belonged to my great grandfather and a fair few belonged to my great great grandmother (literally still in the photo frames she put them in). My family never throws things away. Ancestry and old photos fascinate me, almost like a doorway to a different world.

Further to my previous post here is John Heron Cole, father to John Edward Cole. Not sure of the date of the photo but he was born 1844 and died 1913 His mother, Dorothy Heron b1802, d1876, again unsure of the date of the photo.

My, ahem, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (1632-1723) is this handsome chap. Keen London-based architect. Had a penchant for cathedrals. Sadly, his money has been mislaid somewhere through the last 13 generations.

This one is dated from about 1899, in the picture is my great x4 grandmother (my mum's dad's dad's mum's dad's mum). Harriet Summers (neé Lane) 1825-1912

Elijah Muhammad stopped his preaching on this day 45 years ago, aged 77.

I like to think that everyone is a little bubble of potential floating around waiting to be assigned so they would have been born, but into other families. On this basis, if my granny's first husband hadn't died of the Spanish flu in 1919, I would be somebody else.