Tag: death
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The Coroner's Inquest
Dan provides reflections on his trip to Kendal for the coroner's inquest on his father's death, five months after he fell from a cliff in the Lake District.
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Signs Seen in Service Stations
After a few motorway service station visits, Dan wonders how to drink alcohol in a parallel dimension, and whether its okay for Costa to make light of addictions.
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Worst Weekend Of Cinema - Part 2
In another bad cinema experience, Dan ends up watching the truly dreadful Piranha 3DD.
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Top of the World
This weekend, Dan's father finally made it to the North Pole, as part of his charity trek, albeit in the form of his cremated ashes being carried by another member of his polar team.
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Personal Effects
Dan's been working on sorting out his late father's estate and his personal effects. Some people have been helpful; others, less so.
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Ashes to Ashes (The Funeral of Peter Huntley)
Dan's dad's funeral was this Friday. Here, he provides photos, videos, and a write-up of what turned out to be a spectacular and well-deserved send-off for a larger-than-life man, who'll be sadly missed.
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Little Things
A little under a fortnight after the death of his father, Dan explains how it's the little things, and not the big things, that are hardest for him.
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Full Stop
Dan's father was killed this weekend in a tragic accident. [updated with funeral info and photo]
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The Death of Abnib
Next month, Abnib will die. If you're still using it, you really ought to read and pay attention to this blog post, to make sure that you continue to get blog updates from people in its absence.
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They Say that Programmers Never Die
Dan writes poetry using programming languages, and wonders whether or not any of the code he's written in his life, thus far, will outlive him.
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Leslie Nielsen was admitted to hospital earlier this month
You: To Hospital? What is it?
Me: It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Sad to say, he died yesterday. The world has lost a fantastic actor and comedian.
Just a short post, here: the wedding this weekend was amazing, but I'll be writing about that at a later point, once I've caught … -
Dumping for Dummies
Ruth wrote:
Wow, it's been nearly a month since I put finger to key for the sake of this old thing. In case anyone's wondering, I was feeling hurt and a bit isolated due to the total lack of concern you all showed when I had my first taste of bereavement (with the notable … -
On My Grandma And The Nature Of Time, Space, And Models Of The Universe
I'd hoped to finish writing this post before my gran died so suddenly yesterday, but I guess I was a bit slow. I realised that there were so many changes of tense to be made to make the article make sense that it was actually easier to start again. So I did.
On The Nature Of … -
Yet Another Change Of Plan
My gran stopped breathing about 45 minutes ago. We'll be in Aber.
(this post is a follow-up to one earlier in the day)