Tag: death
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Reply to: I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad
Inspired by a mate whose dad recently died, Kev Quirk shared his own experience of his father's death, and a particular ritual of his reminded me of one of my own.
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RIP James Van Der Beek
James van der Beek died this week of bowel cancer; he was only a couple of years older than I am. I guess I'm at that point of my life where unexpectedly-early celebrity deaths might start being "around my age".
I'm neither young nor angsty enough to enjoy a re-watch of Dawson's Creek, but I especially loved him in Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 so maybe I'll re-watch that. -
Found GCAJH34 Jonah's Oak
This checkin to GCAJH34 Jonah's Oak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My little tribe and I have, in some form of another, been attending Cropredy for decades: intermittently in the past, but lately with more regularity every year. For me, it's coincided with the growth of our family: I've …
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That Moment When You Forget Somebody's Dead
For the first time in years, perhaps, I had that "moment of forgotting my dad was dead" thing.
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Reply to @ADumbGreyHam
Dan replies to Adam's tweet about Dan's dad's public transport legacy.
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Dead Dad Day
In an unusual exhibition of grief, Dan explores his relationship with Dead Dad Day.
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The Ball and The Box
Thread by @LaurenHerschel: "After what has been a surprisingly okayish Christmas, I had a moment today in SuperStore. Saw a lady who reminded me of my 92yo grandma, who […]" (threadreaderapp.com) Thread by @LaurenHerschel: "After what has been a surprisingly okayish Christmas, I had a moment today in SuperStore. Saw a lady who remindedndma, who …
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Carry Fire
"My dad'd love this!" Dan thinks as he listens to Robert Plant's new album, in the first case of him momentarily-forgetting-his-dad's-death in almost a year. It's a pretty good album, regardless.
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Playing Dead - Toddlers Gone Weird
At the request of a toddler, Dan spends an afternoon repeatedly re-enacting the circumstances of his father's death.
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TIL that in 1952, 4,000 people were killed during a five-day smog in London
The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital of London in early December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal—to form a thick layer of smog over the …
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TIL that more than 1 in every 365 people die on their birthday, and nobody's sure why
A study by Swiss researchers has generated a startling statistic - you are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than on any other day of the year. But why should that be?
As the researchers put it, "birthdays… appear to end up in a lethal way more frequently than expected ."
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Hello 2013: Goodbye 2012
In a belated blog post, Dan looks back on 2012, and describes it as one of the hardest years of his life.
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A Broken Oath
You wouldn't have thought it possible to incorrectly witness an oath or affirmation, would you? But somehow, a solicitor that Dan paid did exactly that.
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4 Things You Should Do When Writing A Will (Which My Dad Didn't)
While acting as executor for his father's estate, there have been four particular problems with Dan's dad's Will that have made the task monumentally more-challenging than it might have been. Here are four things that Dan's dad should have done to make Dan's job easier.
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A Bus Called Peter
Dan attends a ceremony to name a bus after his father, who died earlier this year, and surprises everybody present by pouring beer over the front of the new vehicle.