Daily Archives: January 23, 2008

Heath Ledger – Micheal Hutchence

It seems that the similarities are emerging already. Both were found naked and dead in their rented accommodation. Both were father’s of young toddlers. Both dead, allegedly, from drug overdoses. Both acknowledged to be suffering from depression prior to their deaths and both on medication for such. Heath, separated from his fiancee and child, Hutchence the father of a little girl whom he was not with because her mother was battling the UK court system for custody of her other children from another relationship. Both men died alone and depressed. This much is sure.

Both men died alone and completely apart from their family and friends. Both men died whilst their little girls were thousands of miles away from them.  Cut off from their children, yet utterly devoted in love to them to the end. And now the questions will need to be asked…death from suicide or accident?

It is all too sad to contemplate.

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Who’s for a curry?

One of my fave presents from Xmas is a great little book on Indian cookery. Now, the curry is acknowledged as the UK’s favourite food and Indian food has to be my favourite both to eat and to cook.

So today I’m spending time in the kitchen cooking up a storm for tonight – an Indian feast fit for a Rajah.  Butter chicken, onion bhaji’s, poppodoms and raija, with spiced cabbage and saffron rice. Nothing like the smell of  the kitchen just before it is all served up.  Want to know a great Indian place to eat at ( besides here )? The Ganges at Holywood, just near Belfast. My favourite place to eat in and takeaway from, mmmm, I can smell the food from here.

Plenty of Resolution left so far…

Into the third week of the new year and my promise to myself to get more exercise is going well. My son and I are playing a couple of hours tennis every second day and I’m lasting the distance.  Best way to stick to a regime is definitely to choose an activity you really like.

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Tennyson – All Things Will Die

This is the poem  that Larry Williams used to pay tribute to Heath Ledger: All Things Will Die

Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing

Under my eye;
Warmly and broadly the south winds are blowing

Over the sky.
One after another the white clouds are fleeting;
Every heart this May morning in joyance is beating

Full merrily;
Yet all things must die.
The stream will cease to flow;
The wind will cease to blow;
The clouds will cease to fleet;
The heart will cease to beat;
For all things must die. All things must die.
Spring will come never more.
O, vanity! Death waits at the door.
See! our friends are all forsaking
The wine and the merrymaking.
We are call’d–we must go.
Laid low, very low, In the dark we must lie.
The merry glees are still;
The voice of the bird
Shall no more be heard, Nor the wind on the hill.
O, misery!
Hark! death is calling While I speak to ye, The jaw is falling, The red cheek paling,
The strong limbs failing; Ice with the warm blood mixing; The eyeballs fixing.
Nine times goes the passing bell: Ye merry souls, farewell.
The old earth Had a birth, As all men know, Long ago.
And the old earth must die. So let the warm winds range, And the blue wave beat the shore;
For even and morn
Ye will never see
Thro’ eternity.
All things were born.
Ye will come never more,
For all things must die

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