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Post by mossie on Jul 28, 2019 20:31:21 GMT
Tough Cheery. Commiserations.
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Post by questa on Jul 28, 2019 23:48:46 GMT
Condolences to you and the families concerned, Cheery. It has been a yo-yo time for you lately, hasn't it?
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Post by mich64 on Jul 29, 2019 0:09:59 GMT
My condolences Cheery. I hope some good memories help you through your grief.
My Aunt (my mother's sister) has COPD as well.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 29, 2019 20:50:25 GMT
Thank you for your condolences. I'm thankful for the last couple of years as he didnt expect to have this time, Rod discovered fb...he bought an iPad and we got to 'interact' more than we had for years. He was a one off...through the 80s, 90s and early 2000s he and his wife travelled around music festivals selling food from their huge camper van to the festival goers, and Rod had a lucrative sideline reading tarot cards. He had a 'rave' on his 50th birthday! They lived for years on a piece of land on the outskirts of the Forest of Dean that he bought with his divorce settlement from his wealthy first wife, they did the full 'back to the land's thing with composting toilet, growing their own vegetables etc...Rod worked as a woodsman and his wife Elaine worked in a local pub. We spoke over the phone occasionally, he and I exchanged letters 2-3 times per year...but once he found me on fb we 'spoke' all the time. We shared a similar sense of humour, similar politics and art...he started painting again too.
They moved to Wales soon after his diagnosis as the medics didn't think that he had long to live and they didn't want Elaine on her own stranded in the middle of nowhere. As it turns out they settled in well and enjoyed 2 years as part of a lovely friendly community. He was very frail but they made the most of their time together.
You don't need to know any of this really...but it's nice to write it down. The funeral is going to be unconventional...back in the forest of Dean. Probably a party, he knew lots of musicians and was a real old hippie.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 29, 2019 22:08:05 GMT
Rod sounds lovely, and I imagine his sendoff will be too.
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Post by mich64 on Jul 29, 2019 23:54:39 GMT
Cheery, it sounds like he led an interesting life, had love and adventures. His funeral does sound like a celebration of life and seems fitting.
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Post by questa on Jul 30, 2019 0:06:12 GMT
"It's nice to write it down"...that is a great eulogy for a person, it shows they knew how to Live on a grand scale. At his funeral everyone will have their own story of him and I foresee there will be laughter more than tears. The old, genuine Hippies are moving up to their gentle heavens now, leaving this world richer and more interesting.
Chin up, Cheery. How lucky you were to have known him.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 30, 2019 8:13:03 GMT
Absolutely. Well put questa.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 30, 2019 11:15:16 GMT
Thank you xxx you lot are amazing too xxx
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Post by bjd on Jul 30, 2019 14:03:09 GMT
It's so much more pleasant to have a get-together where you remember the person rather than a traditional funeral. This will be especially true for someone who sounds as interesting as your brother-in-law. May we all leave such good memories behind us.
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Post by lugg on Jul 30, 2019 18:38:54 GMT
Sometimes, well actually in many ways FB / social media is such a positive thing, so glad that you re connected Cheery. He sounds a very interesting man , condolences to you and his family/ friends. PS I love the Forest of Dean - its not far from me and I walk there fairly often and ride there occasionally. Are you going to the funeral/ celebration of his life ?
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Post by whatagain on Jul 30, 2019 19:10:20 GMT
Condolences Cheery. Good that you wrote about him. I truly believe that someone is not fully dead as long as people remember them fondly.
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Post by lugg on Jul 30, 2019 19:51:26 GMT
So true whatagain
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2019 14:09:34 GMT
Sometimes the shortest trips are the most complicated. My 59 minute train from Lille to Paris stopped in the Paris suburbs and did not move again for 25 minutes ("signal failure"). Personally, I would have liked a longer delay if we had to have a delay. Starting at 30 minutes, you receive financial compensation.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 31, 2019 20:23:31 GMT
Oiseau de mauvais augure. Thé RER was 40 minutes late. But the rest was uneventful. I am now in Hyeres. Holiday start.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2019 21:58:54 GMT
No compensation for the RER!
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Post by bjd on Aug 1, 2019 11:31:28 GMT
"Meghan guest-edits British Vogue with focus on women, empowerment but leaves out queen"
I keep seeing this headline and I do wonder why on earth the queen is supposed to be included as an empowered woman. She became queen because she was the daughter of a previous king, she didn't actually do anything to earn the position. And keeping it for a long time is strictly down to her being so long-lived. So what is the problem? Is it because Meghan is not English?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2019 21:28:05 GMT
Or maybe she doesn't know the meaning of empower. Not to impugn her intelligence, but the dumbing down of vocabulary is shocking. Over and over it appears that no one in Meghan's age group knows that "infamous" does not have the same meaning as "famous". They've sort of dropped it now, but for a while a favorite word was nonplussed -- used exactly opposite from its true meaning.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2019 5:10:41 GMT
Isn't that somebody who doesn't bring their "plus one" to an event?
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Post by bjd on Aug 2, 2019 5:43:04 GMT
In this case, Meghan seems to have been right and it's the headline writers that are wrong.
Speaking of headlines, a few minutes ago I saw that one of the young Kennedys has died at age 22 -- Saoirse. I assume this is an Irish name but does anyone have an idea of how to pronounce it?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2019 5:44:11 GMT
Yes, that is correct.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 2, 2019 5:47:28 GMT
Sorry, Bjd -- we simul-posted as I answered Kerouac. The name is pronounced Shore-see, I think. There is an actress by that name.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2019 6:09:25 GMT
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Post by questa on Aug 2, 2019 12:08:16 GMT
Sorcha Cusack is a long time actor from Ireland.She spells her name as it written.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2019 13:00:24 GMT
Well, that's like the Seans who spell it Shawn.
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Post by questa on Aug 2, 2019 13:34:48 GMT
and Siobhan who spells it Shevorn ugh!
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 2, 2019 14:25:10 GMT
Niamh is Neve and Roisin is Rosheen.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 2, 2019 14:27:03 GMT
Have to admit that it makes me laugh when I think of all of the French words and names that people complain about because they aren't spelt the way they sound.
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Post by fumobici on Aug 2, 2019 15:29:28 GMT
Essentially all Italian names are spelled *exactly* how they are pronounced. Imagine that: logic and commonsense. Oh, I should add it's not just names. It's the entire language, all of it.
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Post by bjd on Aug 2, 2019 15:34:17 GMT
All the Slavic languages work that way too. You just need to know the phonetics of the letter and you can read and pronounce anything. Furthermore, in Polish the stress is invariably on the penultimate syllable, so it's always easy to know where to accent the word.
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