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Am desperately scouring the news to see if there is any indication that Tutu died to the comforting sounds of tribal drums, so I can apply for the death by bongo bonus.

A nice December related, funeral paced non-Christmas song.

Weather forecaster, journalist and presenter Ron Bendall, a legend of Westcountry TV, dead at 67. This is quite an advanced age given his reputed thirst. He got into dreadful trouble in the early 90s for encouraging surfers to enter the sea during a hurricane.

He's also lost his wife and two children to cancer.

Wow, just watched Magnus Carlsen's epic victory over Ian Nepomniachtchi in the World Championship, after their previous five games were drawn. Possibly not for everyone, but that was a classic. All eight hours of it

Is it possible time that time is being altered right now? Why has chicken Bovril become extinct?

An inquest is currently underway, following the death of former referee Gordon Hill, who died in 2019, aged 90. Afflicted with dementia, he fell from a roof in an ultimately doomed attempt to abscond from his residential home.

Roger Phillips, 89, a true giant on the fungi and foraging scene.

The Levellers have started their latest tour without guitarist and singer Simon Friend, who cannot be with them for unspecified personal reasons. One to keep an eye on I would suggest. The Levellers are quite a hardy lot and, if this is due to Friend's health, then it might be serious.

My MP. They'd vote for a donkey here if it wore a blue rosette.

One of my favourite scenes involved Stockwell mouthing the words of Roy Orbison's In Dreams while Dennis Hopper beats Kyle McLachlan to a pulp.

D.I.M Wallace, 88; author, artist and a leading figure in British birdwatching. (Wiki page)

Not a celebrity, but someone taken by surprise a few centuries ago?

Another Guardian article from Lovelock (102) today, expressing pessimism about our ability to combat climate change and opining we are more likely to succumb to Gaia's revenge.

I'm leaning the other way on her mortality and sense a rapid decline, with HM's previously strong grip on life suddenly becoming rather fragile.

I was going to post last week about how rough he sounded when interviewed on R4, so interesting to read that he looks as bad as he sounds.

But good for us to speculate. Covid?

Satanic ritual abuse conspiracy theorist, pastor, anti-vaxer and author Russ Dizdar has died, apparently from covid. Meanwhile his wife Shelley is gravely ill in hospital. The titles of his books give a fairly accurate overview of his perspective on things. Who could forget his timeless classics Expelling Darkness - Engaging Non Human Entities Now And In The End of Days, or indeed The Black Awakening: Rise of the Satanic Super Soldiers and the Coming Chaos?

Michael Tarraga, who made spurious claims to have been abused by a Edward Heath on a yacht.

Probably nothing, but rumours on Twitter that Jamie Bulger murderer Jon Venables has been murdered himself, near Port Talbot.

I was thinking that perhaps they should do lunch as they have so much in common. Cooney to expire first, she doesn't look well at all.

Just noticed the sequence of names mentioned in the three posts above Bob Bob Bob Bobby

Bob Matthews, sound engineer and integral part of the Grateful Dead furniture, has died according to a tweet by Bob Weir.

If only he'd phoned a friend .

Ice T pays tribute to John Challis.