Neol Edmunds

Has Nicklaus' granddaughter shown us her Todger recently?

176 days until JC turns 100. And 115 days until he surpasses the Duke of Edinburgh. Interest picking in my Celebrity Spread Deathing group...

Austrian/British journalist Hella Pick has died. There was an excellent Desert Island Discs with her a couple of years ago. Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/04/hella-pick-obituary

Ahhh yes, so that's why cricket is short for cricket football.

Oscar Quitak died at the end of 2023 - I found out while researching my Howards' Way thread.

While checking the imdb actors list for Howards' Way I saw that Pamela Salem, who appeared as Mrs Travis in Howards' Way, and was also Moneypenny in Never Say Never Again, died in February 2024 aged 80. Guardian Obit: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/07/pamela-salem-obituary

Also quite interesting about the number of married couples on/due to the show. Harvey (Jan Howard)/Yardley (Ken Masters) Anholt (Charles Frere)/Childs (Lyn Howard) Grey (Kate Harvey)/Dennison (Admiral Redfern)

Other cast members: Oscar Quitak, who played Richard Shellet died aged 97 on 31 December 2023. Robert Vahey, who played Bill Sayers, died in 2013.

Howards' Way hit the screens in 1985, so we are approaching the 40th anniversary of its first airing in 2025. Granted the main cast was split between those born in the 1960s and those from the 1940s and before, but over half the main cast have already qualified for a wake in the Jolly Sailor. Based on the list from Wikipedia of main cast: Dead: Maurice Colbourne Glyn Owen Dulcie Gray Tony Anholt Ivor Danvers Nigel Davenport Lana Morris Kate O'Mara Alive: Jan Harvey Stephen Yardley Susan Gilmore Tracey Childs Edward Highmore Cindy Shelley Patricia Shakesby Sarah-Jane Varley Sian Webber Jeff Harding

Amazing how he had a "stable of stars" using his bats in the early 1980s. The three stumps logo was something very simple but very recognisable for a generation.

He pops up now and again in my group of British dads in Austria's "Fantasy Funeral League", and hasn't shown any intention of troubling the scorers, so usually gets jettisoned - we are very strict on rollovers.

How long before someone suggests Bazball is dead?

As well as hitting Denis Breakwell for six successive sixes (across consecutive overs).

He studied at St Andrews and Edinburgh universities so clearly no slouch.

Thaksin Sinawatra one for 2025 perhaps, or is it prison avoidance "ill health"? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68329953