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Giving rise to the notion that the Doctor in the House series is cursed as Robin Nedwell died young too and we all know about Dickie O. Barry Evans seems to be haunting me slightly at the moment as his name is always cropping up on websites I visit, but then I do visit a lot of death related websites and his death was quite intriguing. Intriguing and a little sad. This link is a forum thread on actors who died destitute. Some surprising names in there.

TV actor Barry Evans (Doctor In The House, Mind Your Language) found dead in a dilapidated bungalow, 11-February 1997, aged 53.

In theory, it sounds a good plan and if you've got a spare £28,000 knocking around doing nothing why not, you can't take it with you (on the other hand, it might come in handy should you ever get revived)! But... As you say there are no guarantees that a. they'll find a cure for whatever killed you (especially if it was death by omnibus), b. even if they have found a cure they will definitely revive you and administer said cure, or even c. as soon as they've got your £28,000 they'll just spend a few quid on a quick cremation and pocket the rest. It might also raise further complications with the assisted suicide issue - could you legally assist someone's suicide if you truly 100% believed that they could be brought back to life when medical science had advanced enough to cure whatever they were stricken with?

Those are the so-called unclear spells, dreaded, by meteorologists as much as the public, for their unpredictability. regards, Hein Thanks for 'clearing' that up for me!

Funny weather we're having today. When I got up (uncommonly early at 0815) the sky was clear, as were the roads. Relaxed in the bath for an hour, had my breakfast then opened the curtains to be confronted by a blizzard. Honestly, I couldn't see the houses the other side of the street. 10 minutes later, the snows gone, the sun is shining! I looked on the website of my 'local' newspaper and it gives todays forecast as 'Clear Spells'; not very helpfully, it doesn't specify what the weather will be like outside of those spells.

Try The Impossible Quiz. Not so much a quiz, more an exercise in melting-down your brain! Fun though.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of Little house on the Prairie died 10 February 1957.

If she does, and you are, you're both 30-odd years too late.

Is Portsmouth's performance today (5-0 so far with 3 own-goals) some sort of protest against not getting paid or have they all had a huge punt on the fixed-odds? Or are they just that bad?

Tennis champion Arthur Ashe February 6, 1993, aged 49, from complications of AIDS.

Banjo Paterson took his last waltz on this day in 1941, aged 76.

So any Avram Grant jokes then?

The world's gone mad.

Happy 95th Norman!

Today is the 116th anniversary of the death Adolphe Sax, a famous Belgian! (unless of course it was yesterday, or Sunday, or even July 2nd)

I'll be watching the Ice-Hockey (or, for our trans-atlantic readers, the Hockey), just in case lightning strikes twice.

Ah, but if said chain-smoking hooker-granny had been Wayne Bridge's ex...

Another British film producer, David Brown, has died, aged 93.

British producer, agent Leslie Linder dies. (Jan 16) Perhaps his best known film was '10 Rillington Place', but he also produced 'Blind Terror', starring Mia Farrow, which I remember scared the sh!t out of me when I was a kid.

Mondrian What a man Framed a chart Called it art.

I see John Terry scored the winner for Chelsea at Burnley. Thank God he likes playing away.

Ben KingsleyMohandas K Gandhi Assassinated, 30 Janaury 1948, New Delhi, India.

Ah yes. According to his Wikipedia entry, he started in small roles, and featured in a few short subjects.

Went for Dom Mintoff for no other reason than it'll probably be Dennis Hopper.

Moosey wanted to vote for Zelda Rubenstein though... see here!