Bibliogryphon

Now I feel old.

Yes. I was talking to the organ grinder....

Do we have to wait for the obit for the next teams?

Silvio Gazzaniga is dead at 95. Wait for the QO. Biblio had him this round. In the back of the net. Do I get to lift the trophy?

As before. I think I win this round if we can get a BBC obit.

Ah, Ways of Seeing! Didn't realise he was that old! He is the oldest surviving Booker Prize winner.

Booker Prize Winners Updated for 2016 Winner Booker Prize Winners updated for 2014 & 2015 Winners V S Naipaul (1932) John Berger (1926) David Storey (1933) Salman Rushdie (1947) Thomas Keneally (1935) J M Coetzee (1940) Keri Hume (1947) Penelope Lively (1933) Peter Carey (1943) Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) A S Byatt (1936) Ben Okri (1959) Michael Ondaatje (1943) Roddy Doyle (1958) James Kelman (1946) Pat Barker (1943) Graham Swift (1949) Arundhati Roy (1961) Ian McEwan (1948) Margaret Atwood (1939) Yann Martel (1963) DBC Pierre (1961) Alan Hollinghurst (1954) John Banville (1945) Kiran Desai (1971) Anne Enright (1962) Aravind Adiga (1974) Hilary Mantel (1952) Howard Jacobson (1942) Julian Barnes (1946) Eleanor Catton (1985) Richard Flanagan (1961) Marlon James (1970) Paul Beatty (1962)

Here are twenty five new names for consideration Tony Booth Don Rickles June Brown Everton Weekes Sidney Poitier Abdelaziz Boutelfika Robert Mugabe Bill Maynard Pope Benedict XVI Dick van Dyke Claire Hollingworth Mary Wilson Sheila Mercier Frank Miller Richard Baker Jeremy Hutchinson Carl Reiner Lilliane Bettancourt Paul Darrow Shirley Hughes Robert Hardy Valerie Harper Rodney Bewes D C Fontana Peter Tork

The seventeen I would dump would be James Randi Prunella Scales Henry Kissinger Tommy Chong Doug Ellis Robert M Pirssig Lester Piggot Stan Lee Jake Lamotta Stephen Hawking Paul Gascoigne Peter Carrington Sandy Gall Murray Walker John Noakes Gordon Banks Fidel Castro I got to eleven OK but the last six were grudging removals and I know that now Fidel has reached 13 there are going to be people urging him to stay on until he goes but I don't think it will be 2017

Exactly.Soap opera stars enjoy a high level of recognition but they aren`t known for being them.Same can be said of voice actors.For example few people can visually recognise the voiceovers on the Simpsons but if any die it will make the news.Peter Sallis is a good example of someone who if you are under 30 you probably couldn't name but you would recognize him as Clegg from last of the Summer Wine and as the guy who voiced Wallace. OK so she is more Gillian Taylforth than Wendy Richards. I haven't watched Emmerdale since they dropped the Farm.

Genuinely, I've tested her name out on a few casual folk I know, non-Deadpoolers, and they've all known who she was. I knew those of us who don't watch soaps didn't really know of her before, but a lot of people are addicted to the bloody things, and she was apparently far better known than I'd thought. In my book - Meads, Bracknell, Christie, St John, King Michael, Booth, and Sellers are all famous enough for the front page, given earlier precedents (and I'd pick Downie, citing the Beeb! Hah), but I am not the Committee. They have their ways. Whereas even people into Christian country hadn't really heard of Feek. I realise I am not well versed on soaps but she is not Anita Dobson, Liz Dawn or Sheila Mercier or even Leonard Fenton. This is probably why I never win.

She might be low hanging fruit and an easy hit but I don't quite feel the fame factor. It does not bring prestige to the list. For me she is this year's Joey Feek However many may also have the same thoughts about another potential option Steve Hewlett who is nothing if not forthcoming about his state of health.

Well we have had to sit through three years of work on the M6/M1/A14 junction which is just coming to an end now and they still haven't included southbound access from the A14 to the M1.

Not happy with that. I had no idea who she was. I am thinking Desmond Tutu might be the right sort of pick for the top slot.

I can hear the howls of Nimbies already

The good news is that although Facebook and Twitter seem to be off limits. I can still keep up to date with all that is happening in the world of Death.

I am in Addis Ababa airport.

What does he do with the air miles? I dunno. Love you as I do Cat, that is one shit answer! I know. I toyed with with the idea of saying that on a point of pedantry because he doesn't pay for the ticket his boss gets the miles but I didn't want to land BG in the shit. Because of the way we book flights we do not repeatedly use the same carrier. I did join the Lufthansa scheme on my last trip but they weren't offering a convenient flight this time.

Sounds like LAST WORD fodder to me.

Howard Davies very Radio 4

One that made me quite sad Kazunaki Tanaka (aged 49) who voiced Coach Ukai in Haikyu a Japanese Volleyball anime currently on series 3. Died 10 October Sounds awful is actually great.

The LD position is that this is a local issue because Richmond largely voted remain.

I have sent my 2017 list.

Close.... ....In Kettering. In truth I am an expert for an EU TBT project. So the EU are paying my company and all my costs. Travelling economy though.

In theory the candidates can't force the issues that is up to the electorate. If the Tories were standing then they would have to speak about Heathrow but the locals might decide that the numpty has put himself in their hands and they might be still really angry about the EU ref and his London mayoral bid. Interesting times.