Dropping like flies...

I see that Wendy Richard has died from cancer, aged 65.

The BBC obituary is here.

The 65-year-old was diagnosed last year with an aggressive form of cancer that attacked her kidney and spread to the top of her spine and left ribs. She died yesterday morning at the Harley Street Clinic in central London. Husband John Burns was by her bedside.

All the reports talk about her being mainly known for playing the part of Pauline Fowler in Eastenders, but truly speaking, she will always be Miss Brahms, the hapless foil for Mollie Sugden's Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?:


Wendy Richard, MBE (born Wendy Emerton 20 July 1943 – 26 February 2009)

Dropping like flies...

I see that Wendy Richard has died from cancer, aged 65.

The BBC obituary is here.

The 65-year-old was diagnosed last year with an aggressive form of cancer that attacked her kidney and spread to the top of her spine and left ribs. She died yesterday morning at the Harley Street Clinic in central London. Husband John Burns was by her bedside.

All the reports talk about her being mainly known for playing the part of Pauline Fowler in Eastenders, but truly speaking, she will always be Miss Brahms, the hapless foil for Mollie Sugden's Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?:


Wendy Richard, MBE (born Wendy Emerton 20 July 1943 – 26 February 2009)

Leaving shortly

Well, I am just about to turn the computer off and disappear down to Euston to get the train to Shrewsbury. My darling sister is already texting me asking what time I'll be there. It's something of a miracle that she didn't ask for a full itinerary last week sometime.

Ah well.

With any luck I shall be able to post from Shropshire as they now seem to have internet access again. It looked for a while as though I might have to do some work on the train (!) but nothing has come through from the office so I have decided to relieve myself of the burden of lugging the laptop on the train with me. If anything does crop up, it will have to be dealt with by telephone call or once I've got up to Wem and logged on up there.

It seemed all so simple booking a long weekend, but there was a point yesterday when I seriously thought I might have to cancel, such is the madness in the office at the moment!

Later, dudes.

Leaving shortly

Well, I am just about to turn the computer off and disappear down to Euston to get the train to Shrewsbury. My darling sister is already texting me asking what time I'll be there. It's something of a miracle that she didn't ask for a full itinerary last week sometime.

Ah well.

With any luck I shall be able to post from Shropshire as they now seem to have internet access again. It looked for a while as though I might have to do some work on the train (!) but nothing has come through from the office so I have decided to relieve myself of the burden of lugging the laptop on the train with me. If anything does crop up, it will have to be dealt with by telephone call or once I've got up to Wem and logged on up there.

It seemed all so simple booking a long weekend, but there was a point yesterday when I seriously thought I might have to cancel, such is the madness in the office at the moment!

Later, dudes.