It’s my Nana’s 90th birthday today. Well, figuratively speaking – she’s been dead for a few years now. When my death comes I’d like the doctor to say something like this about me too…
“Cutting down the tree with a chain saw was strenuous enough for an 85 year old woman. To then swap to a smaller electric chainsaw to trim the branches, cutting through the cable electrocuting oneself would probably be enough to induce a heart attack in anyone. Death was instantaneous.”
I want to live a life like that: active and alert (well, not alert enough to avoid electrocuting yourself - but clumsiness is a family trait and this blog wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t have to write about all my little mishaps) to the end and then, at 85, some kind of small accident doing strenuous activity one wouldn’t expect of an 85-year old. Yep, that’d do for me.
From Red Dwarf: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684185/
Holly: Tension Sheet, inventor of; Dave Lister, aged 17.
Rimmer: Damn.
Holly: And he died tragically in a plane crash aged 98.
Rimmer: 98?
Holly: Well, it was his own fault, apparently. He was making love to his 14th wife and lost control of the plane.
Whereas I was going to mention the Crow Road’s… actually there are a few interesting deaths in that. Somewhat regrettably interesting deaths don’t really run this family (keeling over permanently outside the neighbours’ after a gin-doused game of bridge? Not quite the same thing).
Oh! The entry was longer, but you cut it and I couldn’t read it…if I asked you to send me the intire text, would you mind?
I’ve never seen a picture of Miskouri without her trademark glasses before.