St Geoffroy
Yesterday's weather: bright and cold.
We watched a programme last night that has had me thinking ever since, and I'm still not sure what to make of it.
The programme in question was ' George Melly's Last Stand' and was a documentary programme about the jazz singer's last few months before his death, in July, of dementia and lung cancer. I was never a fan of Melly, whose style of jazz never appealed and I found the programme last night rather disturbing but I don't know why I should have found it so. In an effort to find out a little more about him today, I came across a very well written obituary in the Independent. This man lead the most incredible life and I will try to read more about him, perhaps that will help me to work out why I found last night's programme so disturbing.
Whilst searching the internet this morning I found an even more disturbing website. Forgive me if you have already come across this one, but it was certainly new to me. Deathlist is the most macabre website. The committee of which elects, and names on 1 January each year, the 50 famous people that they expect to die during the coming 12 months.
Talk about the Grim Reaper.
Luckily they don't seem to have much success as their record is only 14 of their expected 50 dying in one year (2003 if you are really interested), so hopefully anyone who finds their name on the list shouldn't be too concerned that it is the kiss of death, so to speak.
And to be honest, including Fidel Castro and Ariel Sharon for 2007 would have been a pretty good bet but of course they only have 8 weeks to go before the end of the year and they're still with us.
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Yesterday Jon discovered a blog that speaks the absolute truth about policing in the UK today. Written with a brilliant sense of humour and a mistreatment of political correctness that will get him in trouble if anyone discovers who he is Police, Camera, Paperwork says it all and is well worth bookmarking.
We just wish we had the nerve to say it all ourselves!
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