"John Hall" wrote in message
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In message , "Alan
[Guildford]" writes
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Sad news. RIP.

Worked with him 1978 to 1982.
Great man to be on shift with at the London Weather Centre in High Holborn.
Also remember attending a wonderful party at his house after a cricket
match.
Quite a character to be fair, and actually very clever too, he certainly
knew his stuff!
Best shift was when we all made cricket bats out of fax roll holders and
balls out of mashed up fax paper tied up with rubber bands. I forget who won
:-)

Will
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" Some sects believe that the world was created 5000 years ago. Another sect
believes that it was created in 1910 "
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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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On 12/12/2016 20:34, Norman Lynagh wrote:
haaark wrote:

On Monday, 12 December 2016 18:06:57 UTC, Alan [Guildford] wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38294661

Yes, an obviously very nice man who completely failed to assume 'airs and
graces' as a result of his popularity. I well remember him being called for
the defence in the week of the October '87 storm debacle. I don't even think
he was even on duty that week, but he did his best. Rather unfair of the BBC,
I thought.

I might be wrong but I think he was dragged in at the end of a rather traumatic
night shift. He certainly looked like it that morning.


I remember seeing some footage of him being grilled by a journlist that
morning. He looked like he'd just gone the full distance with Apollo
Creed, or he'd just done a 24 hour time trial on a bicycle!

On Monday, 12 December 2016 18:06:57 UTC, Alan [Guildford] wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38294661

I will always think of him as the greatest weather presenter of his generation, and perhaps later generations too!

On 12/12/2016 19:39, Norman Lynagh wrote:
David Mitchell wrote:

On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 7:40:05 PM UTC+1, Col wrote:
On 12/12/2016 18:06, Alan [Guildford] wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38294661


Yes, very sad.
Very distinctive and instantly recognisable.
He is the only TV weather forecaster I remember having his own Spitting
Image puppet!

--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

He was a lovely guy, loved his presentations. Often to be found in the shop
at the MO in Holborn and would always chat for a while.

Those were the days :-)

One of his best I heard during the late night shipping forecast
during a very stormy period was 'South Utsira force 11 or 12 not a good
night to go wind surfing '
Marvellous...

RonB

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38294661

Top bloke, so sad.


Graham

On 13/12/2016 11:13, Ron Button wrote:
On 12/12/2016 19:39, Norman Lynagh wrote:
David Mitchell wrote:

On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 7:40:05 PM UTC+1, Col wrote:
On 12/12/2016 18:06, Alan [Guildford] wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38294661


Yes, very sad.
Very distinctive and instantly recognisable.
He is the only TV weather forecaster I remember having his own Spitting
Image puppet!

--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

He was a lovely guy, loved his presentations. Often to be found in
the shop
at the MO in Holborn and would always chat for a while.

Those were the days :-)

One of his best I heard during the late night shipping forecast during
a very stormy period was 'South Utsira force 11 or 12 not a good night
to go wind surfing '
Marvellous...

I wonder if he got into trouble for that?
The shipping forecast has always seemed very 'matter of fact' and far
too serious to stark making jokey remarks in.


--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 17:56:02 +0000
Col wrote:

On 13/12/2016 11:13, Ron Button wrote:
On 12/12/2016 19:39, Norman Lynagh wrote:
David Mitchell wrote:

On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 7:40:05 PM UTC+1, Col wrote:
On 12/12/2016 18:06, Alan [Guildford] wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38294661


Yes, very sad.
Very distinctive and instantly recognisable.
He is the only TV weather forecaster I remember having his own
Spitting Image puppet!

--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl
Snow videos:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3QvmL4UWBmHFMKWiwYm_gg

He was a lovely guy, loved his presentations. Often to be found in
the shop
at the MO in Holborn and would always chat for a while.

Those were the days :-)

One of his best I heard during the late night shipping forecast
during a very stormy period was 'South Utsira force 11 or 12 not a
good night to go wind surfing '
Marvellous...

I wonder if he got into trouble for that?
The shipping forecast has always seemed very 'matter of fact' and far
too serious to stark making jokey remarks in.



Last time I listened to the Shipping Forecast, it was still read by an
announcer; I should find it hard to believe that weather presenters have
been allowed anywhere near it but stupid decisions are made so often
that anything is credible.

Ian was certainly entertaining but I'm afraid that sometimes the message
got lost, particularly on the radio when there were many times that I
hadn't a clue what the weather was going to be at the end of one of his
broadcasts; at least on TV there were the charts to give me a hint as
to what was happening. Still, he has hardly been the only one to have
demonstrated that fault.

Dementia, in whatever form, is a terrible illness. In an episode of the
West Wing that I watched again a couple of days ago, it was referred to
as "the long goodbye". When death finally arrives, it's hard to feel
sorrow when one may have been grieving over the gradual loss of a loved
one for years before the end comes.

The illness can hit a family quite early on in life; when my mother was
declining, one of her carers told me how she'd just come from visiting
a couple in their thirties where the husband had early-onset Alzheimer's
and had reached the stage where he was doubly incontinent. She related
how the wife had said that she had three children to look after, one
aged six, another aged eight, and the third was her husband.


http://www.ageuk.org.uk/
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/


--
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks. [Retd meteorologist/programmer]
Web-site: http://www.scarlet-jade.com/
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would
not have enough to live upon. [Samuel Butler]