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I was thinking about this and arranging regular posters in age order without being boring and directly asking ages @Cat O'Falk is now 60 @Sir Creep thinks only Cat is older than he @maryportfuncity has grown up children so I am placing him next @Lord Fellatio Nelson is a Grandad iirc I think @YoungWillz is a bit older than me @Bibliogryphon @Lard Bazaar has a daughter about the same age as mine but as she is a Lady I will give her the benefit of the doubt and place her a few years younger. I think @msc must again be in that age range because of his extensive DW knowledge. Then we get onto the younger ones so this list is purely guesswork. @themaninblack @Spade_Cooley @Sean @Phantom @Davey Jones' Locker @Deathray @Phantom of the Midway @Joey Russ I have no idea about @Toast or @charon so to avoid offense I will let them insert themselves. Apologies to anyone I have missed.

Katie Boyle was my ninth hit in the Silent Generation. I am doing better here than the G.I.

I am not sure that anyone is going to want to watch that

Barbara doesn't look that bad. George will go first.

I love the literal approach German has to naming things. Luftkissenboot is their word for hovercraft- an air cushion boat.

Stansted Airport flying to Madrid with Ryanair.

Please avoid such horrible tautology in future.

I rushed here because I was sure Katie Boyle would have been a hit. Ho hum.

Most of the use a straw.

Does Aaron have a rival in local radio presenter Peter Price?

I maintain that Christopher Ecclestone was a Trojan horse to get David Tennant into the role.

I was once at a conference and one of the speakers said At the End of the Day over 50 times in a 20 minute talk.

Pertwee is at his best off Earth. Curse of Peladon is great and I adore Carnival of Monsters but I think Troughton is the most accomplished actor to play the role with the possible exception of Christopher Ecclestone.

Listening to the Today programme this morning there was an interview with Jens Stoltenberg and I wondered how many Secretary Generals of NATO were still alive. The answer is 7 and our Peter is the oldest. Peter Carrington (b.1919) Willy Claes (b.1938) Javier Solana (b.1942) George Robertson (b.1946) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (b.1948) Anders Fogh Rasmussen (b. 1953) Jens Stoltenberg (b.1959)

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I lived in Cheltenham and hated Gold Cup week. Drivers leaving the race course had no respect for cyclists and horse racing punters were unable to distinguish the different functions between public phone boxes and public conveniences.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is an excellent comedy.

Rather reduced my hope that Kate Wilhelm gets a mention.

Jim Bowen my 5th hit here.

That means that I am going to have to resort to bombarding the Guardian obits twitter feed with covers of her books. I might add in Julian May and David Fisher just to make a point about anti SF snobbery.

Does the LA Times count for Kate Wilhelm?

Good day to bury bad news.

Hugo Award Winners (Best Novel) Years Won Name born 1971 Larry Niven 1938 1976, 1998 Joe Haldeman 1943 1979 Vonda N. McIntyre 1948 1981 Joan D. Vinge 1948 1982, 1989 C J Cherryh 1942 1984, 1988 David Brin 1950 1985 William Gibson 1948 1986, 1987 Orson Scott Card 1951 1990 Dan Simmons 1948 1991, 1992, 1995, 2004 Lois McMaster Bujold 1949 1993, 2000, 2007 Vernor Vinge 1944 1993, 1999, 2011 Connie Willis 1945 1994, 1997 Kim Stanley Robinson 1952 1996 Neal Stephenson 1959 2001 J.K. Rowling 1965 2002, 2009 Neil Gaiman 1960 2003 Robert J Sawyer 1960 2005 Susanna Clarke 1959 2006 Robert Charles Wilson 1953 2008 Michael Chabon 1963 2010 Paolo Bacigalapo 1972 2010 China Melville 1972 2012 Jo Walton 1964 2013 John Scalzi 1969 2014 Anne Leckie 1966 2015 Cixin Liu 1963 2015 (TRANS) Ken Liu 1973 2016, 2017 N K Jemisin 1972

Both Ken Dodd and Roger Bannister are prime contenders.

Guardian Journalist and environmental campaigner George Monbiot joins the latest line of people to reveal they have Prostate cancer