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.

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

Song about w×nking, isn't it?

Another Kenyan long distance runner - Henry Rono, dead aged 72. Never ran at the Olympics - Kenya didn't compete in 1976 or 1980 and he'd retired in 1984. In 1978 he broke the 10,000 m, 5,000m, 3,000m Steeplechase and 3,000m records in 81 days.

Something that Miranda Hart couldn't be accused of.

Steve Wright - Radio 1 and 2 DJ - dead at 69.

Probably why he told William to stay off the pegging while both he and the PoW were in hospital.

Just let Liz Truss in to see him. Problem solved. (Either Charles or Witchell).

You've forgotten that he narrated Spot the Dog.

https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/24080291.sir-geoff-hurst-abandons-event-cheese-grain-frome/ It's a big story. Geoff Hurst forced off stage by nosebleeds. Not many from 1966 still with us...

Shoop-shoop-in more like!

Frank Farian of Boney M.

Thinking about the cast of Howards' Way. 40 years since it hit the screens in '25. 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