Lady Grendel

Great minds think alike Time I had just sent Boudicca a picture of our visit to the Bols Museum, rest assured it wasn't one of you, me and Hein looking pissed drinking strong cocktails! August 2012 DL Con Amsterdam was quite an experience. Myself, Time, Rotten Ali, Magere Hein, welshman and harrymcnallysblueand white army all attended and we had the best weekend apart from the dodgy vegan restaurant complete with a seperate dining room room with antiques/jumble sale crap covering every surface - the dolls were creepy. I have a shedload of photos from those 3 days. Somewhere I have a great photo of all 6of us at the end of the Saturday night, think it was taken just after Mr. McNally bought everyone a whisky shot and that tipped us over the edge into complete drunkenness. I think I have been able to upload a photo of me outside said Bols museum from that day.

Hello all, long time since my last post. I am working from home which requires me getting out of bed and moving to my sofa for the day in front of a laptop, in between essential work I get to have fab irreverent group video chats with my colleagues every day which often descend into the normal innuendo chats we would have in the office. My boss described them last week as 'mental health therapy' and they really are, laughter is often the best medicine. I have been at home now since March 12th - yes we worked out early that staying at home was the best idea, sometime before Boris did. Boredom is still a factor and when not working I can be seen stalking the dog that lives across the road from my windows - I lost my own dog in December to heart failure- and playing computer games. Steam and Big Fish Games have been my solace these days. Stay safe folks and now I have finally found out how to log in here again I may well be around a bit more :-)

I was just wondering what music would be appropriate to be played at the funerals of famous people (and our own DL'rs!) I would have to kick of with: Lemmy - Killed by Death (Motorhead) G.W. Bush - Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions)/No. of the Beast (Iron Maiden) Tony Blair - How much is that Doggy in the Window Abi Titmuss - Who are You (The Who) Charlotte Church - Charlotte (The Macc Lads) That's the idea anyway.

I do wonder if lying on his deathbed listening to a cacophony of bagpipes a few days before his death was a pleasant experience

LG reporting in! I had seen photos of him recently at local public events where he looked gaunt but as the throat cancer diagnosis was 10 years ago I thought perhaps he was going to weather the storm. Only 5 days ago Floors Castle had their massed Pipes and Drums day, as anyone who has read my posts knows I live beside the Duke's estate and get to see the pomp and ceremony stuff that goes on, only last weekend we had The Carriage Club of Great Britain drive by in their full regalia pretending to be Lords and Ladies as they drove along the streets of Kelso, they slightly gave away the fact they are not actually posh by the fact they had their smartphones out filming their approach to the 'Golden Gates'of Floors while dressed as nobility. The castle and its grounds are closed now until further notice but hopefully they will get their act together and reopen for the Food Festival scheduled to be held there in 2 weeks time as I have tickets for that and the food and gin samples are pretty much top of my priorities in my middle age, stuff mourning a member of the aristocracy. LG

Not quite buckets but I do own some very large wine glasses! I have just had a reunion in Glasgow with some friends and neighbours from my childhood days to celebrate a milestone birthday of mine and was given what I can only describe as a 'massive fuck-off glass' to drink my gin from (bottle of gin included too) , even I was daunted by it's size. Count me in for 24th March :-)

I could attend any weekend after February if that helps, would be good to see DL'rs again, mine's a pint of wine LFN :-). Tardy response from me I am sorry, work has really, really cut down my internet time. Gone are the days of drifting in and out of the DL while pretending to read office emails. I was in Edinburgh in June with 2 American friends and we went to a pub that made me think should we ever have a convention in Scotland this would be the place. http://www.frankensteinedinburgh.co.uk/ We just dropped in for something to eat and they really put on a show that none of us were expecting. I won't spoil it in case any of you are in the pub on a visit to Edinburgh, just remember to look up if you visit.

Indeed that is a very good point! Also had a friend that saw Mr. Petty in Hyde Park, pretty amazing gig by all accounts and he was only a year or two younger than Jeff, I might have to rethink that one :-)

Yes he got jailed a few years ago now, I think his last trial was one of the few where television cameras were allowed in to film - my memory serves me that the judge was filmed sentencing him, it's happened a few times now but Scotland isn't big on that kind of thing. Rumour has always been that his wife's body was put through a machine that cuts up trees for woodchips and what was came out was fed to pigs, a surefire way to dispose of a body I have heard. He doesn't have a long sentence though given todays standards of 25 - 30 years, 17 I think he got in 2012/13 and the time he was locked up before will come into account so he could well be out in about 10 years.

I saw Mr. Lynne in concert at Wembley Stadium, London in June he was looking pretty fit to me and put on a brilliant concert. He's not a kick in the backside away from being 70 but I have seen much younger musicians that don't have the stamina he has, I won't be adding him to my list anytime soon. (Apologies for the rubbish photo!)

That's a shame. I was lucky enough to see them many moons ago at Reading Festival, and again a couple of years later touring. I say 'lucky' because I probably wouldn't have gone to one of their gigs, but their festival set was so enjoyable that I didn't need persuading to see them again. I saw them many years ago too, I think it was 1986 when they played the SECC in Glasgow on their 'In the Army Now' tour. Then I saw them again in June 1990 at Celtic Park where they supported Rod Stewart. Incredible band, great fun. I will admit that I got bored at both gigs as perhaps I tired a bit early after 'Rocking all over the world' with them and maybe the songs sounded much the same as the gig went on. The 25 minute rendition of Johnny B. Goode as an encore in 1986 had me almost slitting my wrists through sheer repetition but that is what fans of The Quo love. Me, I have been listening again to Paper Plane this weekend and remembering actually how good they were. R.I.P. Rick and thanks for all the memories of lining up 'Quo Style' on the dance floors of rock clubs in Glasgow in my youth whenever The Quo was played. Happy times.

I lived there for a couple of years too. I'm thinking probably May sometime as I need to fit in with the friends I'll be visiting. Hope the life changes are not unpleasant ones. 'Tis mine your suppliant now to be, Ah, let the band of love - be three!" 20 years ago I lived in Cologne, too. Now I am working there, so it should be possible for me to take part in the DL Convention. Can someone tell me a little bit more about the convention, please? How do you meet and where? When I arranged the Amsterdam meet and agreement was reached on when, all overseas visitors made their own travel and hotel arrangements. I proposed a place to meet by PM and arranged good weather. All I did next was go to meeting place, get something to drink and wait. The other DLers duly arrived. Ok, I prepared some things to do and see as well. I remember the restaurants... Me too especially the vegan steak. It was like eating rubber! The Amsterdam meet up was great, I have very happy memories of it. Sadly, from my point of view, I will be taking a rain check on this one Handrejka. Life is too busy, I am already booked up for a week in June with American friends flying in to Scotland culminating with a visit to London and Wembley to see Jeff Lynne's ELO. I have to organise my old Mum and my crippled dog around it too. Fun!

I want to work where you work Handrjeka. We have a new boss in place in my workplace, well not that new, 9 months now and that sort of open conversation would have him running for the hills. The open, frank and often irreverent and humorous discussions us employees had are in short supply now. I have always been able to chat about DL and deadpooling in general with my colleagues, not so with the new boss. Rest assured I am finding new ways to make him uncomfortable in general conversations. I expect my P45 soon.

Tried and tried to edit it but it won't let me. I have logged in and out and come back after a couple of days but I think there is a problem, one of the many, from the last upgrade. An Admin might be able to sort it. I could capitalise the L's in the sub heading but not change the title.

Sod it, first or surnames. Glad you have opened it up to first names .My contribution is the late, great Philip Lynott

That's awful OsP, I realised something of this nature had happened to you when you commented on my FB post about my young cousin being killed in a crash the other week but I had no idea it was this, very glad you are still with us. My best regards to you and Mrs OSP and I really hope you both make a good recovery soon.

There was nothing strange about it, sadly Paul Hunter, who was a very young man and prolific snooker player died of cancer at the age of 27. It was a tragic end for such a young man and many of us on here respected that and many of us mourned him. In those days the DL was on the Google search engine. I found my way here in 2004 by googling Fay Wray. Unfortunately people were googling 'Paul Hunter death' and we were one of the top hits on Google. It escalated from there, there was a thread about him and his death and it got to the stage people were seeing the thread and tracing the DeathList to the Grim Reaper and finding out his real name, occupation, phone number and address, It got pretty bad for a while. After that the DL changed it's settings on Google to not be searched by the famous names we discuss, I believe some have slipped through the net. We are not a site that wishes death on anyone at all, that is not our raisons d'être we are a site that respects death and primarily is a social area. Guessing who might die next year? well plenty of people do, they talk about it in workplaces all over the word, we use this website to do so.

Rapist if I remember rightly, a nasty piece of work himself and banged up for life so had nothing to lose by attempting to kill Tobin.

Now you've beaten me to it. Peter Tobin now collapsed after a possible stroke: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3437033/Serial-killer-Peter-Tobin-69-rushed-hospital-collapsing-prison-suspected-stroke.html Oh good! I didn't have him on any teams this year, but I'll gladly take that fall for the greater good if this turns out fatal. At the very least, hopefully it's painful. I do! Unique pick for my team if he karks it, he has been on my team for a few years now. He is known though for being a hypochondriac, mostly when he is about to appear in court which is not likely at the moment, maybe he didn't like his current cellmate, the last one slashed him. I will not be counting my points anytime soon.

There was some discussion last year about whether London might be more central. Very convivial last year on Canterbury but, you could have squeezed us into one car, though non of us was fit to drive. Yes it was great, maryportfuncity and welshman are a total pleasure to spend an afternoon drinking with,never a dull moment, but you could have fitted that convention on a tricycle never mind in a car. I am all for DL'ers having a convention again this year at the Canterbury food and drink fest, it is fab but I won't be able to make it this year. It is expensive for me to make the journey from my part of Scotland to Kent, there is no overnight quick option as it is a long slog and as I have done with every DL Convention I have attended I have made a weekend of it. This year I have committed myself to a weekend in Edinburgh at the start of October with a bunch of ladies I have been friends with since childhood, anyone who has booked a 2 night stay in a hotel in Edinburgh at any time of the year knows there isn't a cheap way of staying there and if there is you may get cockroaches in your bed. So LG will be bowing out of a Canterbury rematch in September in favour of cocktails and being exposed to embarrassing photos of herself as a child with some longtime friends she hasn't seen in many years. I do hope some DL'ers take the plunge and make a go of it in Canterbury.

Like YoungWillz I think the first celeb death I can remember is Elvis. I had no idea who he was but I remember my primary school class being interrupted by another teacher coming in to talk to our teacher to tell her 'Elvis has died', I vaguely remember I thought she was talking about a pet. I didn't give it much thought at the time. The second memory of a death was when Mountbatten was blown up by the IRA, I had just started secondary school and our Modern Studies teacher took us along to the TV room so we could watch his funeral on the premise this was 'history in the making', cue loads of bored 12 year olds wondering WTF was going on, we had no interest in politics or royalty, I doubt any of us had ever heard the name Mountbatten in our lives before, this was Glasgow in the 1970's. We got a free couple of hours lounging about pretending to watch TV and not have to do boring work. John Lennon's death was certainly my most vivid memory from childhood. I was heading to school and arrived at the local train station about 8:30 in the morning, there was always a huge scrum of us kids squeezing through the station office and onto the stairs, the news John had been shot was the talk of the day.The BBC showed Help or maybe it was Hard Days Night on the telly that evening and while I should have been studying for a history exam the next day I was glued to the TV. Diana's death is also memorable mainly because they held her funeral on my 30th birthday and everything shut down. Even Glasgow was like a ghost town, here was I trying to party at reaching a milestone and nowhere was open. I celebrated the night before instead and got suitably pished so I had a raging hangover while her funeral took place. Happy birthday to me, in fairness my family laid on a huge meal at home that afternoon with copious amounts of booze and the hangover and Diana's demise were soon forgotten.

I am really sad to see Terry Pratchett has gone a big miss for the DL. I wonder why he was taken off the list given that he had to withdraw from public life last July. Alzheimer's is extremely aggressive, from personal experience my father went from being able to speak and hold conversations to not being able to do much more than repeat what we said to him in the space of 12 weeks and stopped speaking entirely 6 months later. It's an extremely nasty disease. 5 months before my dad died he was unable to feed himself, recognise his surroundings or communicate at all, it was so fast, he was bedridden and in the end started to aspirate when being fed as he had forgotten how to swallow. It was a lower respiratory infection that took my wee dad and I see the official cause of death for Mr. Pratchett is 'chest infection', much the same thing. In response to questions about where to start with Terry Pratchett's books I don't know, how long is a piece of string. I can give you my experience and it's up to you where you want to start. Back in 1987 I was off work with full on dose of flu, still living at home and I was bored and miserable and making my parents and my siblings lives misery. One of my brothers, chucked The Colour of Magic at me and said 'you should read this it might make make you smile and give us all a break'. I retreated to my bed and read it and just could not put it down, I loved it thought it was great. I passed it onto my dad who thought it was brilliant and then to my mum who just loved it. My brother was happy to pass on the sequel to us 'The Light Fantastic' and we all eagerly awaited the release of Equal Rites in paperback. I was almost first in the bookstore in Glasgow - no internet then it was John Smith's in St. Vincent Street and greedily took it home when it was first released. I was disappointed, I have never reread it and perhaps I should. I have had over the years had a hit and a miss love affair with Pratchett's Discworld. I loved Guards! Guards! and hated Soul Music. I adored Mort and enjoyed Wyrd Systers and Moving Pictures. I grew tired of a new book every 6 months and stopped getting them for birthday and Christmas presents well over 10 years ago. They lay in my bookshelves unread. When I moved most made their way to a local charity shop but I have kept my brother's original copies of The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic that he lent me 28 years ago, they are squirreled away in my collection. My mum recently picked up a copy of 'The colour of magic from a charity shop and enjoyed it just as much as she did in 1987. Not sure if this helps with choices of where to start.

I may actually start blocking them or just removing them from my newsfeed. It's not so much a case of not reading it, it's more that I wish people's ability to recognise that which should remain private and which information is acceptable to announce to all and sundry. The posts that annoy me more than anything are the ones along the lines of 'I can't believe that just happened', 'Just had the worst news ever' 'I am so upset right now', there are no further details so nosy buggers like me are left thinking WTF? Of course almost immediately some friends of the poster will respond with 'are you all right?', 'do you need to talk?' etc The original poster then replies to said suckers with 'I will send you a private message'. Why not just PM the friends who can give you a shoulder to cry on in the first place. What is the point on posting to all and sundry about something that has upset you if you are going to be all coy and only discuss the details privately. To me it is attention seeking at it's worst. I much prefer those that post 'I had a fucking awful day because my budgie flew out the window when I was cleaning it's cage and next door's cat had a tasty meal' than half posts that crave attention.

I am so sorry for your loss Sir Creep, nothing I can say will make it better having been through it myself recently I understand, but know that this little Scottish lady is thinking of you. Take care. Lady Grendel x

I am so sorry for your loss RandomGuest, no matter the age it doesn't diminish the grief or sense of loss. Moving on without your loved one is very hard but I hope you can find solace that she is at peace and you can celebrate her life. My dad passed away due to dementia recently and we dreaded Christmas without him but we decided to do everything we normally do and had a great time, lots of laughter remembering him, I don't think I will ever stop smiling when I think of my dad. We really did celebrate his life and will continue to do so. I hope it is the same for you when you think of your Nana. Take care LG