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Thanks all. I've been really lucky this time! Referred to the local mental health team, and as I'm in the system I've started new treatment called DBT. In fact in the most positive way, I've been using the sick period to study like crazy so the result is that my Doc at mental health team is seriously impressed with not only my actions but my progression. In other good news- it's made a massive link between my use of alcohol and my depression, so much so, I've not touched a drop since 31st May and whilst I'm not promising a totally ban for life I can honestly say, this is the longest I've not touched a drop for over 30 years. The big test will be the return to work in 10 days, but I have a few ideas for that. So all in all, positive etc.

Being a primary School teacher in Liverpool in 5 years time when you have six boys and one girl in the same class all called Jürgen

Nothing to see here. Nothing is getting out of hand. Names change all the time for various reasons. There's nothing happening here that needs to stop.

Some fucking ship

Ramon Revilla sr., best known for his more than five-decade career as a Filipino screen actor, died at 93 years: https://coconuts.co/manila/lifestyle/breaking-filipino-film-star-and-former-senator-ramon-revilla-sr-dies-at-93/ He had a second career as a politician, serving from 1992 to 2004 in the Senate of the Philippines.

But they will all spell it differently.

Time, if I could ‘like’ that 1,000 times, I bloody well would.

What's the difference between Catholic Priests and zits? Zits don't come on your face until you're 12!

I hope you experience a last minute rush ,this is a fantastic pool to join.

He has really severe heart problems and the word last summer was he likely had 2 years left in him before his heart failed entirely. Always hard to tell with hearts exactly but yeah, he's not a well man.

Huey, who had a Billboard Hot 100 hit for his 2006 single "Pop, Lock & Drop It", reportedly dead according to Twitter at 31.

Oops https://news.sky.com/story/new-lamborghini-sports-car-crashes-in-west-yorkshire-twenty-minutes-into-first-trip-12014366

Sorry about your great-aunt. Thoughts are with you and your at this sad time, Quim.

Sorry for your loss take care you and your family are all my thoughts. RIP.

Been a long while since the last hit, and as it stands the final match will be Death Impends vs An Fear Beag (Death Impends is winning against Jiroemon on age, and I’m really surprised that match hasn’t gotten more hits). If things hold, that’ll be the third year in a row the rookie of the year makes it to the finals and the first time someone returns to the cup finals. So yeah, interesting times ahead if things hold...

I feel he’s always been very good at articulating certain aspects of it in a way that no trained medical professional ever can. Depressed people are always at a certain degree of risk but Campbell does appear to be very good at dealing with it.

Ria van Dijk AKA Luchtbuks Ria (Airgun Ria) turned 100 yesterday. She won't get an UK Obit but well, it's a more-or-less interesting story and - to my surprise - the Daily Mail has covered it in 2012 (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095400/Ria-van-Dijk-takes-photograph-fairground-rifle-range-year-1936.html) Long story short: since 1936, she goes to the fairground in Tilburg to shoot at a shooting gallery. You would get a picture if you shoot the target. She just collected the pictures until around 2007 someone made an art book out of it and 2 years later she sold her collection to the Stedelijk Museum (spending the few thousand euros she received on a bus trip with friends to an organ museum and eating at a trout restaurant). She keeps on shooting every year. This year, the fairground was cancelled this year due to COVID, but as a surprise it came over to her care home.

The photos of the Statue of Liberty under construction in Paris are always surreal. https://www.messynessychic.com/2012/06/22/made-in-paris-the-statue-of-liberty-1877-1885/

@philheybrookbay- I don't know what to say, except stay strong. (((((Hug)))))

The Unbearable Lightness of Being On The List of The Missed but not having died.

Arthur Brown is 78 today As is Mick Fleetwood.

Apparently Dominic Cummings is a very slow driver. He drove 260 miles and it took the contagious.

Any relation to 21 Savage?

PARKOUR!!!!!!

My great-aunt earlier today, 68. Not Covid-related. Very sudden, very unexpected. She was a real force of nature, incredibly funny, big heart. A proper Dagenham bird. I’m gonna miss her a lot.