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Farewell Esther Williams the inspiration for the Olympic sport of Aquarobics
known to all as this and that mermaid in spectacular MGM pics
in Dangerous When Wet, she prepared to swim the English Channel
serenaded by Ricardo Montalban, well with so much water there has to be flannel
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Mrs Kay was headmistress at DGGS when my Mum went there. Apparently she remembered the name of every girl that was at the school, even years after they had left.
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Farewell Michael Evan Victor Baillie, Lord Burton
a law unto himself, he dwelt behind a tartan curtain
he may have been the inspiration for 'Monarch of the Glen'
he kept the riff-raff off the land he claimed, not so much as from way-back-when
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10106909/Lord-Burton.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell Fiona Bryde Colquhoun, Countess of Arran
speed boat champion she had a love of the water since she was a bairn
married to 'Boofy' Gore, her fellow protector of badgers, she had her own cete
she kept a sizeable menagerie at her Hemel Hempstead seat
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10106930/The-Countess-of-Arran.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Iain Banks dies aged 59. Family reports that author has died after suffering from gall bladder cancer.
http://news.sky.com/story/1101388/iain-banks-award-winning-scottish-author-dies
[More later.]
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Farewell Iain Banks, writer
he too had the best of starts, born to be a Fifer
learned he was about the malted spirit
a tough task, but someone's got to do it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer
P.S.
We were about the same age and were both born in the same town, but I don't think we ever met. Perhaps we led-off with a different foot?
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Farewell John Bowden, at a hundred and one
from grass and potatoes a hard life won
of all things Northumbria and Burns, a one-stop shop
a raiser of livestock and father to a co-op
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Farewell Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize economist
his study of slavery gave history's knife another twist
his thinking on US development economics a revelation
on the assent of man he saw a "technophysio evolution"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10118804/Robert-Fogel.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell Arabella Campbell, bounteous and beautiful
for sixteen summers, daughter dutiful
as each moment passes we live with the knowledge that our next could be our last one
you never know what you have 'till its gone
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2013/jun/17/arabella-campbell-obituaryIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell Otis Dewey (Slim) Whitman, singer
four times the UK's Number One International Star
Latterly famous for telling the Martians, Go Shoo!
Now singing..."I'll be leaving you-oo-oo-oo,oo,oo,oo,oo,oo,oo,oo!"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/19/slim-whitman-dies-89Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell too, to James Gandolfini. More of him later.
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James Gandolfini is dead.
'Gan' is Geordie for gone and
'Fini' is French for finished.
Need any more be said?
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Oh, I think you'll find the answer to that Mark is: Yes.
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Farewell James Gandolfini, sympathetic villain
"basically just like a 260-pound Woody Allen"
at last, a tale that was not about an angst-ridden cop
I never saw it myself, but I understand it came to a sudden...
[Not a very informative Obit]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jun/20/james-gandolfini-the-sopranos-diesIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell Mick Aston, pot-shard potty prof
a mixture of Einstein and Doonican, a one off
earnest, affable, inquisitive and educational
identifier of all things that 'must' have been ceremonial
News item, obit later...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jun/25/professor-mick-aston-diesIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Yet another today....
Vince Flynn, author of the Mitch Rapp books, died age 47 of cancer. A sad loss of both a great writer and a brilliant series of books.
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Farewell Vince Flynn
who wrote of the state we are all in
pursuing the culprits of Lockerbie
he passed mid the jangle of the Rosary
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Farewell Peter Lovat Fraser, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, politician and lawyer
A Tory to Scotland as Baleen is to Coir
his was the mind behind the trial of the bomber of Lockerbie
he too oversaw the enquiry into the cost rises of the Scottish Parliament, the evidence was mostly, "It wisnae me."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jun/24/lord-fraser-of-carmyllieIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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