DevonDeathTrip

You ever heard of the pioneering all girl rock group Fanny, MPFC? Would be good to have some Fanny on your show, so to speak

I thought a pie thread might be in order. Possibly because I'm half asleep. Please feel free to discuss sweet and savoury pie - or pudding - preferences, share baking anecdotes or debate the use of suet here. Desperate Dan's cow pie, complete with horns rising from the pastry and tail hanging out the side always made me smile.

Plenty to keep the crowd entertained here at the Admin Derby

I wonder if her signature is actually supposed to resemble a peacock?

Whilst puttering about offshore early this morning, I'm 99% sure I saw an albatross gliding overhead. I thought my eyes had deceived me, but according to Twitter a black-browed albatross was seen in Cornwall a couple of weeks ago, so I guess this was the same one. Amazing to see such a magnificent bird so close to home, it's really made my day. (Photo for illustrative purposes only, by the time I'd got my phone set up to camera, my albatross was long gone)

7 Skies H3 by the Flaming Lips, although I'm not sure I can manage the whole 24hrs in one sitting. Part 1 Part 2

There's always The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. I actually agree with Bladen to a point; human population left unchecked and spiraling out of control will inevitably lead to a cataclysm of immense proportions. However I'm not sure a mass cull is necessary quite yet. That said, nobody can be held responsible for their own birth, or for the evolution of their forefathers and this raises interesting questions about how liable we can be held, individually or collectively, for ruining the planet. 'Antinatalist' philosopher David Benetar's seminal work Better Never To Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence explores these troubling conundrums in more detail. P.S Sorry, I didn't realise this was the Weather thread

Hal Blaine was a survivor of the Hartford circus fire of 1944. So a tenuous link to some trivia... Another survivor was 'The Armless and Legless Wonder', Frieda Pushnik who was on stage and helpless when the inferno took hold, before being rescued by a courageous minstrel singer who carried her to safety.

After waiting so long for the obit, I'm happy to get any points at all. Alas I fear the impending demises of Gilbert, Bracknell and Clegg - all sacked from my squad for dallying - will see this lone breakaway swept up by the peloton long before we get to the business end of the race.

Ha! Never in any doubt.

UK obituary for Bernice McCabe.

SDF press officer says otherwise.

I wonder if there would be any mileage in a paid deadpooling consultancy service? I could set up a premium rate phone number and give my views when people phone me up with their ideas.

Egyptian feminist, doctor, novelist and activist Nawal El Saadawi, 87, has a crowdfunding page up to pay her hospital bills. The latest update is that she is getting better, but definitely someone to keep an eye on, as her health looks rather perilous. Also, as an added bonus, she's the subject of frequent death threats from disgruntled Islamic traditionalists who consider her enlightened views to be heretical.