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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8498975/Sand-artist-created-giant-masterpieces-Britain-dies-heart-attack-swimming-sea.html Pembrokeshire 'sand artist ' Marc Treanor has died aged 57 after having a heart attack whilst swimming.

Indeed.Ask Julia Carling ex wife of Will Carling how she felt about Princess Diana cultivating a victim eternally wronged woman status given her affair with her husband. It seems Diana was more relaxed about there being three of us in a marriage when it suited....

Such cynicism!

The Aunt of Liverpool footballer Mo Salah died today in Egypt.

And requires around the clock care. An excellent choice for the committee next year if she is still with us.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-53248277 Horrible horrible awfully sad tragic news. Conservative MP Guy Opperman has revealed that his newborn twin baby boys have died.

I'm kind of hoping it's my year! Don't underestimate me because I've come nearly last in every year on nearly every pool I have entered! The enema seems like a game changer......

I remember Everett McGill but only as Ed Hurley in Twin Peaks!Husband of eccentric deluded one eye patch user Nadine Hurley! I expect many of the names of Twin Peaks cast members to start appearing in more lists as time goes on.Piper Laurie, Ray Wise , Grace Zabriske, Michael Ontkean etc. We have already lost Jack Nance, Peggy Lipton and Warren Frost. Others too I'm sure.

You may well be an embryonic Harold Shipman in the making!

Some interesting choices , names and entrees this year. The teams entered by @YorkshireBanker @Bibliogryphon @msc @JoeMoneypenny and @Perhaps seemed to especially catch my eye with the intriguing and interesting choice and mix of names in their lists.

Leslie Phillips

Thank you.I had a suspicion it was unprecedented but was hoping more knowledgeable souls could confirm.

So we are halfway through the year and have 11 hits. Is that the highest mid year tally the committee has ever had or just one of the higher ones?

I'm glad you got a last minute surge in interest.

I like looking at peoples more unusual, quirky less well known picks! I'm nosey like that!

Looking forward to seeing the names entered by all the players.

The next six months of the year are going to be as busy and eventful for the enema as the first six months mark my words! So yes you are right those people and other notables should be getting very worried! Imagine if the committees success rate in the first six months is matched in the second half of the year? That would be a gigantic 22 hits!!

That would be telling!

Jamie Farr is now selling personalised video messages to fans for £83 on Cameo. So still mentally agile I assume.

Birthday greetings to a phenomenal talent

Thanks! You've better eyesight than me I didnt zoom into that as the writing seemed so tiny!I am also not keen on reading the former Desmond rag The Daily Express !

Clarissa Eden reaches the grand old age of 100 today!Hopefully she is in a position to enjoy celebrations of some kind. Many Happy returns!

Superb post. The only point I would make is that the morning after the 2019 general election I assumed the tories were in for two terms. Now I am not assuming that....

Gotcha!

Will the handling of the coronavirus crisis by this government in your opinion be a similar dooming moment for this administration?