Bibliogryphon

I am indeed correct I have just found out that the liklihood for a woman who is 96 of dying within the year is 25%. So if we picked a list of 96 yearold women we should get 12 hits just by probability. The statistics comes from a maths website on understanding uncertainty. However the author might consider our use of his information a debasement of science.

Make that three trains now with the Lausanne incident the other day. The law of three - train travel should be safe for a while now.

I think it is a bit harsh to be critical about putting someone who is 96 on the list. I imagine that for any individual who is 96 I bet the statistics for dying before reaching 97 must be at least into double figues.

Honor Blackman in Casualty

The most significant thing about this story is the possible effect it will have on her ambitions to be tory leader if Cameron crashes and burns in 2015 (please please)

We don't need a new Zsa Zsa. We can't get rid of the old one.

Today James Lovelock is 94 years old!

Now 'completely removed'. ...... from all 2014 shortlists.

This is one guest post I have enjoyed. Though the people on the sofa are wrongly labelled.

Disappointed that this wasn't more urgent but this is more to do with Tory in-fighting than Nelson. In the event he does die I'm not sure that a message of condonlence from any back bench MP who wants to get notice is going to mean much. There should be an official response from the Queen and the Prime Minister and the rest can wait. To quote Yzma "He ain't getting any deader" We of course should send the official Deathlist message which after the past few weeks will probably read "About bloody time"

The most interesting thing about this is how well Barbara looks - I hadn't seen a picture for some time and got the impression that she might be really ill but here she looks fit and well. Is it just me or is Michelle Obama a damned sexy lady? It is just you. Does that mean there is something wrong with me?

If on next's years list you need to replace Anna with another soap battleaxe/matriarch there are plenty to choose from Edna Dore or June Brown - Eastenders Jean Alexander or Liz Dawn - Coronation Street Sheila Mercier - Emmerdale (Farm) Vivean Gray - Neighbours Obviously with Brookside being set on Merseyside and Phil Redmond committment to realism there were no old ladies because they had all been kicked to death by teenage drug addicts.

How about George Philip Charles Michael Although that might leave them short of names for latter sons and people might shorten it to Geroge Michael.

Why would we care about Mandela? - It was a baby BOY.

Gone to Brazil and won't use an armoured Popemobile. Conclave anyone?

Maybe he got worried that Rowan Atkinson would beat him too it after the car crash last year.

Highly doubt it... I've watched his abdication speech and the anouncement of his abdication (a couple months earlier) and in both he looked and sounded perfectly healthy... He did mention health-reasons in that anouncement, but it sounded more as if it was just age-related (whatever it is i doubt that it is anything extreme), queen Beatrix said the same things when she anounced her abdication and i can't imagine her dying within the next ten (or maybe even tewnty) years... After watching clips and photos of the abdiction of King Albert, I however did noticed how frail queen Fabiola, the widow of king Baudouin, was looking... Most of the abdiction she apparently spend in a wheelchair and it seemed as if her mouth was constantly hanging open... She didn't look like a woman who would make it to 90... At least she was there!!! I only heard a clip of the speech on the radio and he sounded frailish and struggling for breath. But since I had no idea what he used to sound like I am probably in no position to judge.

There are two Mel Smith sketches that I really love the first one is the NTNOCN Hi-Fi shop sketch which theorectically should be dated by to any person who has been confronted with a smug know it all in a computer or phone shop it will still have resonance. The other is from Alas Smith and Jones and is a spoof game show BIGOTRY with Tony Slattery as the host. I think it is sad but as has been said - with hindsight not a surprise.

Showing no signs of slowing down.

OK so far as I am aware nobody contemplates that any two of the characters/actors in the Archers are in homosexual relationships to that extent. I am not an Archers listener by the way it makes an awkward gap between the 6.30 comedy and Front Row. That website has slightly disturbed me. I know I might be heading into pot/kettle territory but some of what I have seen on the internet makes me think people have got too much time on their hands.

OK he looks bad and he will go on my long list for possible inclusion next year - as long as this is not a "I'm ill, I'm really ill, I'm dying, I'm free, I'm better" scenario

Check the attic?

Clive James was on Front Row last night primarily to promote his translation of The Divine Comedy but he was frank about his health. He said he is not as ill as he was last year when the news broke but he cannot be away from Addenbrookes hospital for more than three weeks and he doesn't expect to see Australia again but he does hope to be able to complete another book. I think he will now not come up trumps this year but I would be in no rush to take him off for next year. I picked him in the latest next death poll so wrong again for me.

I dare you to post that on the Radio 4 website Enraged Archers fans > The Taliban

Not presumed dead yet but actor who uncharicteristically goes missing from his theatre