Bibliogryphon

At my previous job we had to do extended days to supervise junior staff who were working. One guy and I were meant to be on alternate weeks of earlies and lates after one day we decided to permanently switch I would do the early and he would do the late. It worked better for us both.

Raul Castro is planning to appoint a successor so he can appear on more Deathlist teams next year.

Will be a useful form spotting opportunity at the funeral. George, Bob Dole, The Carters, Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle, The Clintons, Donald.....

Clearly the one who actually has some votes.

On my graph I have eight previous year's data. At the moment 2018 is laying in the middle 4 above and 4 below. If that is to continue the next window for death is between 29th May and 7th June. We are still ahead of record breaking 2017.

Herman Wouk the second most popular pick atm.

1920 Fanny Waterman /Michael Anderson 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Al Jaffee 1922 Jean Barker/Rex Richards 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Freeman Dyson 1924 Rosamunde Pilcher/Clive King 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Richard Baker 1926 Cicely Berry/Leonard Fenton 1927 Babs Chinnery/Frank Windsor 1928 Estelle Harris/Peter Firmin 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle

Suggestions of family gathering but I am seeing ominous mentions of RadarOnline so might be in the moon is made of cheese territory.

The West Tyrone By-election is on 03rd May. The likely to win Sinn Fein candidate is Orfhlaith Begley. Not sure how that is pronounced Orla?

Unfortunately Katie Price grief stricken at loss of her inspirational/devoted/exploitative * mother is too much for a tabloid editor to resist * delete as appropriate

I also might be being harsh on Christopher as he is not the sole beneficiary of the estate but he is the literary guardian of his father's works. A bit concerned what will happen when Christopher dies. Will there be a Tolkien free for all as the extended family try to make as much money as possible. Contrast Christopher with say Brian Herbert and it looks a lot more respectful.

One of the clever things that Roy Clarke did in Keeping Up Appearances was to name the four sisters with flower names. Hyacinth, Daisy, Rose and Violet but not draw any attention to it.

The worst performance in recent years was 2011 when we had 7 hits so I think there are many more to come. The latest that the fourth death has come in the last five years is day 176 which is 25th June 2014 and we had 10 hits that year. No need for panic.

To be fair. I think Christopher has made more money out of his father's literary legacy than the dear old Prof. did during his lifetime.

My bad.

When she goes both the oldest living former titles will pass to Republican spouses. First Lady: Laura Bush (b.1946) one year older than Hilary Second Lady: Lynne Cheney (b.1941) seven years older than Tipper Gore but only three years separate Tipper, Marilyn Quayle and Jill Biden.

No LA is beautiful, very sunny....... oh

Barbara Bush on 24th April.

or Murder She Wrote?

My sister in law is a teaching assistant and one kid in her class was called Amarni

I hear the sound of the barrel being scraped this week after a bumper crop last week.

If the whole family trapsed in there would be a suspicion of saying goodbye.

Courtney Love was a guest judge on Ru Paul's Drag race last week. Whilst she looked OK (not great just OK) she was completely out of it. When she spoke nothing she said made sense. I was really worried about her. I probably won't put her on my list for 2019 but if I turned on the radio tomorrow and it was announced she was dead I would be shocked but not surprised.

Every street in Essex.

One from a few days ago illustrator Laura Roslof had died aged 69. She produced the infamus Illusion of the Decapus drawing for the orange edition of the Dungeons and Dragons module B3 The Palace of the Silver Princess which resulted in TSR executives recalling all the editions from distributos and even going round the office after the staff had gone home removing any copies which were all then sent to a massive landfill site. Jean Wells' text was rewritten by Tom Moldvey and the illustrations altered and the module republished with a green cover. The few orange editions that survived are now collector's items.