DevonDeathTrip

A Tweet from Scots 'journalist'/activist/former Labour parliamentary candidate/aspiring Islamic terrorist Alex Tiffin.

But I'm not entirely sure who the Russians would consider to be the best worst option anyway.

Eileen Sheridan is 99 today.

An update on Colonel Girkin - he's on his way to the front line, apparently entirely at his own volition. Perhaps we'll soon be hearing about his daring raid on a Nazi pavement from a twentieth floor window

I saw Nicola Sturgeon's SNP conference speech 'highlights' on the news just now. Does anyone know who the identify of the spectacularly frail looking man she embraced afterwards?

Patriarch Kirill's health has 'sharply deteriorated' according to a Ukrainian news blog (who admittedly might not provide the most neutral of commentaries on this)

70 today!

Roger Waters, who has skirted around the frayed edges of sanity for a few years now, claims to be on a Ukrainian "kill list" in his latest tirade about the injustices of Western imperialism.

The Russian backed heads of the four newly annexed regions of Ukraine might be worth a shot (perhaps literally, as well as metaphorically) Yevgeny Balitsky - Zaporizhzhia Vladimir Saldo - Kherson, Denis Pushilin - Donetsk 'People’s Republic' Leonid Pasechnik - Luhansk 'People’s Republic' Historically, politicians who collaborate with invading forces often face a day of reckoning and this bunch, as well as their little friend, will be looking over their shoulders for the rest of their lives. I'm not sure they'll all make old bones...

It doesn't look like she's coming back The actresses who play Chelsea and Lilly are both at least ten years older than the characters they play as well.

Patricia Greene sounded much better as Jill tonight. Meanwhile Judy Bennett has retired from the show after a mere 51 years of playing Shula.

Not really a film man, but looking forward to this one: Should be right up there with The English Patient and The Shawshank Redemption.

A very fine drummer. His work on Bob Mould's cheery album Black Sheets of Rain is something to behold.

Perhaps the multitudes will have already succumbed to exposure and exhaustion by then. Queue is 22 hours and temperature is dropping.

Really sad to read that. I corresponded with her lots a few years ago about various stuff and I know she'd been unwell for a long time. She used to proof read and edit my amateur attempts at writing obits until they looked halfway alright. Bless her, that's a terrible loss for deadpooling. Edit - one of my favourite obits; Amelia hurling abuse at me for picking a boring ex president of Lithuania. A bit further up the page is my attempt to do justice to the Duke of Hamilton.

I'm interested in the prospect of extra deaths occurring in the queue, already five miles long and growing, to file past Queenie's coffin. I don't know how long the wait will be, but I would think at least a couple of patriots won't make it to the right end of the line. Perhaps a hearse could drive continuously up and down the line so everyone gets a good look several times. Or maybe they could get a more hands on experience by passing the coffin over their heads? List of biggest ever funerals here.

David Attenborough to trip and fatally fall at the Queen's funeral

It was on Today at about 8.40ish.

The venerable Earl of Airlie was on Radio 4 just now, talking about the Queen and - although lucid - sounded like he might die of old age during the interview. One to keep under observation. The last surviving attendee of the coronation of George VI apparently.

The Queen was a Twin Peaks fan according to Angelo Badalamenti

I hope I can still watch tonight's Veulta highlights on Quest.

Now so long, Marianne, it's time...

She sounded extremely unwell in tonight's episode and some of the dialogue was a bit swan-songy as well. Watch this space.

An article about the current state of death in the UK. Business appears to be booming, with the death rate up 12% in the last ten weeks.

Rab Wardell - won the Scottish mountain bike championship on Sunday, appeared on BBC Scotland's Nine show last night, then died in his sleep a few hours later, aged only 37.