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  4. Posted

    5 hours ago, MikeM said:
    5 hours ago, the_engineer said:

    Death is a taboo topic and you're not the first relative to visit but we mean no harm.We don't celebrate or wish for death on anyone.Well Ian brady aside.

     

    Hope your nan gets to 100 and sorry about your other losses.

     

     

     

    Me too she was talking about the letter from the Queen the other week

     

    Then I am confident that she will get it.  My grandmother lived to 100, it was an ambition, nay a certainty she held ever since she had her fortune told as a young woman, and was predicted to live to "three figures".  And she did.

    My father used to say he would throw a big party for her 100th birthday because I would be 21 in the same year.  Sadly he died himself long before those milestones.

    Life is strange, and death is part of it.  Please don't be offended, Mike, we are mostly respectful here although we do enjoy a bit of banter and running jokes.

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    39 minutes ago, En Passant said:

    Seems like yesterday I was driving round that stupid North Circ Gyratory system with 'Self Control' blasting out the drivers window annoying everyone. Some things make one aware of how short your own time is, Laura Branigan although not a superstar just hits that spot for me.

    Still a better track than Gloria to me. Ah well.

     

     

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    31 minutes ago, alt obits guy said:

    Dieudonné Bogmis, The Bishop of the Eseka Diocese in Cameroon, has died. He was 63.  (I guess it was his destiny to be a man of the cloth since his first name translated means 'God-given'.)

     

     

    And his surname translated means "those little mats that people put around the base of the toilet".

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    There is an old apple tree in my garden.  It was old when I was a child.  I think it is a Bramley;  cooking apples, anyway.

    Several years ago I cleared all the ivy that was smothering it as people told me it was no good for the tree. 

    There turned out to be not much actual tree left under the ivy.  It's hollow, and since then more of the trunk has disintegrated, so it's just a horseshoe of bark.

    The ivy has taken over again, and is probably holding it together.

     

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    Still produces apples, and this year has been ridiculous.  I've given loads away to neighbours, taken two big binfuls to a local cider producer, and there are still lots at the top out of reach.  Remarkable.

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    26 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

    Guardian Obit for John Line, British actor who appeared as Martin in the first episode of the Doctor Who story, Colony In Space. He was 87.

     

    In a shedload of things, from Emergency Ward 10, through To Serve Them All My Days via Another Country to EastEnders.

     

    Obit appears in "Other Lives".  Is this just because it's submitted by a member of his family? 

     

    "Obituaries pages traditionally describe and celebrate the lives of the great and good, the famous and infamous. There is another type of life that deserves noticing: people less in the public eye, or lives lived beyond formal recognition. To offer a piece to Other Lives, contact us here."

     

    Seems a bit mean to relegate such a prolific actor to the patronising OL section.

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  24. Posted

    There are quite a few I've seen bits of, but I have definitely seen the following:

    The Doors

    A Night To Remember

    Carve Her Name With Pride

    The Longest Day

    Mary Poppins (at the cinema with my mum)

    West Side Story

    The Wicker Man

     

    Possibly seen  - but may have confused with others in the series

    Harry Potter & the Chamber Of Secrets (I know I saw the first one and I may have seen this one on the telly)

    Carry On Henry

     

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