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Israel Vazquez unable to do anything any more. Dead, aged 46.

The US's longest-living heart transplant recipient, Larry Pleau, has died. He suffered a massive heart attack in 1985 aged 41, and received a transplant on his 42nd birthday. He died over the weekend, aged 80.

I do my own; this year I've bought a couple of dozen assorted Belgian beers (memories of the Amsterdam DLCON!) and select them randomly, posting them on Facebook to seemingly nobody. It's a thing I began in lockdown when Christmas drinks were off limits (to everyone outside of number 10) and discovered the pleasures of having beers delivered to my front door. Yesterday kicked off with De Koninck Bolleke at 5.2%. Today will be Haacht's Super 8 Blanche (5.1%)

Craig Rich BBC Report, apparently the BBC's first regional weather forecaster.

A HPDP pick of mine for the last couple of years, now sure to make a third appearance (unless he doesn't make it to the end of the year).

The sense of anticipation as a new year of DDP approaches, now coupled with dread as I struggle to remember @gcreptile's instructions and advice from last year!

Former Aussie cricketer Ross Edwards is 82 today. He played 20 tests, scoring 1,171 runs (2 centuries) with an average of 40.37, but excelled in the field at cover. He also played 9 ODIs, finishing as runner-up in the inaugural Cricket World Cup (1975).

Morgan Lofting, American voice actor died 27-11-24, aged 84. She voiced Aunt May on the 1981-2 animated Spiderman serial amongst other work.

Another claim for the identity of DB Cooper

Not the first BBC report on the smooth Mars Bar. Still, at least he doesn't appear to have asked for compensation, unlike the woman who found waferless KitKats!

I see "Coventry City" have already been renamed "Frank Lampard's Coventry City".

30-11-24 62 Pet Shop Boys — Always On My Mind 56 Pink Floyd — Another Brick In The Wall 46 Girls Aloud — Sound Of The Underground  42 Tom Jones — Green, Green Grass Of Home 39 Wham! - Last Christmas 31 The Flying Pickets — Only You 22 Mud — Lonely This Christmas 18 Dave Edmunds — I Hear You Knocking  16 Benny Hill — Ernie +4 15 Michael Andrews & Gary Jules — Mad World 12 Shakin’ Stevens — Merry Christmas Everyone -6 12 Rage Against The Machine — Killing in the Name 12 The Human League — Don’t You Want Me 12 Danny Williams — Moon River

Dick van Dyke

Happy St. Andrew's Day to fellow Bluenoses! (and the Scots).

Micahel Baggott in hospital and not having a great time of it