Jane Goodall (1934 – 2025) “…animals are “far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent?”  ~ Jane Goodall (referring to […]

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Michel Odent (1930 – 2025) “One could almost say that the root of all anguish is an unconscious memory of birth and its terrors” ~ Frederick Leboyer We heard this week that Michel Odent died this week, at the age of  95.  Very much of niche interest (but very much of interest to me), Michel […]

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Terence Stamp (1938 – 2025) “Master of the brooding silence” ~ The Guardian Heart throb actor Terence Stamp die this week, aged 87.  He was part of a trend towards cockney actors in the 1960s, and was seen in the Swinging Sixties fashionably coupled to actress Julie Christie, and then to model Jean Shrimpton – […]

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Stella Rimington (1935 – 2025) “I still thought the essence of the cold war and spies and stuff was fun.  You know, going around listening to people’s telephones and opening their mail.” ~ Stella Rimington Stella Rimington, a former Director of MI5, and prolific crime novelist, died last Sunday, at the age of 90.  The […]

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Ozzy Osbourne (1948 – 2025) “It’s crazy that anyone would think I’d be in league with the devil, because I’m terrified of all sorts of shit.  I’m very superstitious.  I have to try not to be, otherwise I wouldn’t leave the house.” ~ Ozzy Osbourne Ozzy Osbourne, the godfather of heavy metal, frontman of Black […]

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Fauja Singh (1911 – 2025) “The first 20 miles are not difficult. As for last six miles, I run while talking to God.” ~ Fauja Singh Fauja Singh, a British Indian marathon runner, died last Monday aged 114.  I was interested to investigate his birth chart.  The problem is, he did not have a birth […]

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Norman Tebbit (1931 – 2025) “I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father.  He didn’t riot.  He got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking until he found it.” ~ Norman Tebbit Norman Tebbit, the often unpopular right hand man of Margaret Thatcher died this week, aged 94.  He […]

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Pope Francis (1936 – 2025) “What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.” ~ Pope Francis Pope Francis died last Monday at 7.35 a.m., Rome, aged 88, from double pneumonia and a stroke.  He had been […]

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Jean Marsh (1934 – 2025) Actress and writer Jean Marsh passed away last Sunday at the age of 90.  She was in a way a pioneer of the dramatic genre concerning those upstairs and those downstairs, the haves and the have nots.  And the works she created with her co-writer Eileen Atkins had mileage, they […]

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Richard Chamberlain (1934 – 2025) “His mini-series were luxury liners and time machines, whisking audiences to other lands and ages in a way that workaday series couldn’t.” ~ James Poniewozik, The New York Times It was announced last week that actor Richard Chamberlain, romantic lead par excellence, who embodied that role in a bygone age, […]

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