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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 12, 2020 19:52:17 GMT
as someone with too much time on his hands, i was looking up the wiki pages of local towns and villages yesterday, after hearing the covid death toll from the day before and thinking 'that's like everybody in dove holes dying'. looking at chapel, whaley and then buxton's respective populations, i then scrolled far enough to get to 'famous buxtonians' which included, of course, tim brooke-taylor. he didn't live there when i was growing up, although his brother lived next door to my then girlfriend's best friend and tim was in some local news skit delivering mail there. RIP tim, and i'd better stop looking stuff up.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 12, 2020 20:50:34 GMT
Is the family (his brother's?) legal practice still in town, exile?
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Apr 12, 2020 21:07:00 GMT
i remember it when i was younger maccy, and it looks like brooke taylor's is still active on the quadrant (near the station), but if martin's still alive he'll be approaching 90. according to the obit in the buxton advertiser, his dad was in law, his grandad was a parson who played up front for england, and his mum was an england lacrosse player!
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 12, 2020 22:26:28 GMT
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Post by dudleyhatter on Apr 13, 2020 11:16:37 GMT
And this is supposed to be a ‘proper’ newspaper.
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Post by gazz on Apr 13, 2020 12:05:47 GMT
And this is supposed to be a ‘proper’ newspaper. The word 'sh*t' is a word that is every bit at home between those two words as the word 'quality'! The media in this country really is the lowest of the low, is there a worse bunch anywhere else in the world?
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 17, 2020 10:03:15 GMT
We in the Family Macc stand on our doorstep every Thursday at 8pm, applaud the NHS workers (one of whom lives next door to us), and then have a quick, semi-shouty chat with neighbours from distance before returning indoors. But this, from London at the same time last night. I simply don't know where to start with it...
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 17, 2020 10:08:17 GMT
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Post by gazz on Apr 17, 2020 10:38:01 GMT
I've just seen that, Maccy. What a player 'Bite yer legs' was and who can forget that 'male bonding' session with him and Francis Lee? A real legend and hard man of the game from an era where you had to be hard. RIP, Norman
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Post by gazz on Apr 17, 2020 10:39:50 GMT
We in the Family Macc stand on our doorstep every Thursday at 8pm, applaud the NHS workers (one of whom lives next door to us), and then have a quick, semi-shouty chat with neighbours from distance before returning indoors. But this, from London at the same time last night. I simply don't know where to start with it... The rest of the world must be watching us and thinking "what the f***?" Hands up who thinks anyone is gonna touch us with a f***ing barge pole in trade negotiations once we're out of the EU?
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Post by bringbacklenwhite on Apr 17, 2020 10:40:10 GMT
Sad news. No one is immune. RIP Norman.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 17, 2020 12:15:28 GMT
Latest update on my mate, Rick, from his daughter - but not, alas, an easy read...
My Dad has been on a ventilator for 20 days now, he's got mild kidney failure, just had a tracheostomy inserted because he is still unable to be weaned from the vent and they just discovered he has had a stroke but won't know the effects until they wake him up off the sedation, of which they just started doing but can take several or more days. His chances are getting slimmer by the day but he's still hanging on.
He is however, oblivious of all this. We haven't seen him or spoken to him for three weeks now. We've been on the worst rollercoaster ride of our lives. We can't get off, and it's far from being over yet. We swing between accepting and planning for him dying, to being given pockets of hope, to getting more bad news, falling further and harder each time.
We are suffering 'anticipatory grief' for a death that is more likely than not to happen, but we still don't know, cannot know, what the outcome will be. We are also not able to see our family or friends, or receive the support that would normally be surrounding us in such a situation due to the lockdown put in place to keep everyone safe, so we are left alone with this grief.
We were allowed in to go and see my Dad last night and it was the most traumatising moment of my life. He looks horrific and it is very hard to match up the person in that bed to my Dad, after close to four weeks of not seeing him. It really hit home how close to death he is and even though the Drs say there is still a very slim chance he can come round, we have pretty much lost all hope now.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2020 12:31:23 GMT
Please accept my deepest commiserations and extend them to all his friends and family.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 17, 2020 12:37:40 GMT
Thanks, mate. I have to say that, with each passing day, the odds are not looking good.
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Post by gazz on Apr 17, 2020 13:03:42 GMT
My thoughts are with you all right now, Maccy.
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