On 10/04/2021 12:13, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 10/04/2021 11:29, fred wrote:
On Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 8:21:56 AM UTC+1, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
I think what he says is true though. I don't think he himself would
want all
this fuss and it has been expected since Christmas in any case. They
could
have made a special retrospective in the interim months and done him
proud,
instead of suppressing world news and moving every schedule around. Not
everyone will want to be depressed by this news, but as I used to
regularly
talk to a bloke who drove carriages who knew him, he was very amused
by the
sort of things that were said about people who died who could be real
pains
in the neck when alive and often retorted that I hope the don't do
that when
I go. I think being such a down to earth bloke with a sense of humour
and a
very mischievous tendency, was probably what kept the Queen sane over
all
these years.
Brian

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On 09/04/2021 17:15, gareth evans wrote:


Indeed. How many other great grandfathers died today, and what of
them?


You are the pub bore

Bill
I have told my family tha when I die I want none of this nonsense at
the funeral. Tell the truth I say. He was a crabbed bad tempered old
*******

who shagged loads of wummin'
who should have been jailed for hate crime and dangerous driving....