Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 29 June 2021, 07:14:32 PM
Reg Twigg. Last survivor of those who worked on the Burma Railroad of Kwai Bridge fame infamy. 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/349758/last-death-railway-brit-reg-twigg-dies-but-memoir-reveals-survival-story

To have lived to that age after what they went through. R.I.P.

Looks like a good book, but  according to the right up on Amazon he died in 2013 aged 99.

Quote from: Orcs on 29 June 2021, 10:18:25 PM
Looks like a good book, but  according to the right up on Amazon he died in 2013 aged 99.

You are quite correct! When I look at the article date... 2013! But, I looked for 'an article' having seen it come up on a 'Current News' feed, the previous day LOL! 

Well, that does not matter... it was his life that did... RIP.

Long ago, I read a library book of a POW Doctor's recollections of 'life' and 'treatments' that he performed in Burma. It included very good hand drawn illustrations of the horrific effects of 'Jungle Sores' and improvised treatments for wounds or disease. A guy holding a tin can to catch the fluid draining from his gut via a piece of 'inner tube'! 
There was almost no medical assistance from the Japanese... BUT, their own troops had VERY little medical supplies either. Japanese rations were not all that much better... but could be greatly 'supplemented' by extortion from the local population. 

On POW food... I also vaguely remember the astonishment of some Brit Officer POWs in... maybe Colditz... that, due to Red Cross Parcels, THEY had 'better quality' food than some local civilians! Other Ranks camps may not have fared so 'well'... but THEY knew that they were better off than Russian POWs and would sometimes try to help out. 

Now, people whine if there is a shortage of Courgettes on the shelves... or I grumble if Ma can only get her toenails clipped every four months! (Have started doing it myself.). 

Well, courgettes matter.

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 30 June 2021, 03:04:13 AM

Well, that does not matter... it was his life that did... RIP.

Totally agree.

Its easy to get dates mixed up in the internet  - I have many time . I think all internet pages should e made to display the posting date.

Dusty Hill of ZZ Top.

Quote from: d_Guy on 28 July 2021, 07:27:21 PM
Dusty Hill of ZZ Top.

That's sad news.

Donald Henry Rumsfeld (July 9, 1932 – June 29, 2021) ...

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know."

Quote from: d_Guy on 28 July 2021, 07:27:21 PM
Dusty Hill of ZZ Top.

Yes, that is sad  . Great band.

ZZ Top probably on every 'playlist' on the 80s video jukebox. Thought they were too 'corny' at first... then they became a 'fact of life'! lol! 

That's a great shame.

RIP - from a definitely not  'Sharp dressed Man'.

Saw them live at Donnington in the late 80's

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 29 July 2021, 06:45:22 AM
Saw them live at Donnington in the late 80's

Watched them on TV at Glastonbury 2016(?). Easily the best act I saw. Just came on middle of Saturday afternoon, played a storming* set for ~40 minutes.

There's a good documentary about them on Netflix.


* Other than an ill-advised cover of "Foxy Lady". Billy Gibbons is great, but he isn't Jimi Hendrix.

Una Stubbs  .

Quote from: Steve J on 12 August 2021, 03:01:20 PM
Una Stubbs  .

Aw no. 😕 Such a sparkling performer.

We loved her as Mrs Hudson in Sherlock. Not much screen time but each moment memorable.