mmm...84 today and an excellent writer to boot...Probably in the best of health, but you never know...Could be a good one for 2005.....What does everyone else think...?
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Posted 22 June 2006 - 07:59 AM
Baroness? PD James is a woman? You know, I never realised that, but then I've haven't read any of her books. I was aware of the tv adaptations etc. but somehow always assumed PD James to be a middle to old aged ex-forces type living in Devon, as against a little white haired old lady.
I feel like an ignorant berk who's just had his day enlightened.
I feel like an ignorant berk who's just had his day enlightened.
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 11:55 AM
Interesting pick. No updates to her thread for 5 and a half-years and one of those posts is to say she's in good health, two to say they thought she was a man and two to say that they knew someone similiarly named. So, it looks like she has been picked for age reasons only, I guess.
Based on all the above evidence, I now fully expect her to be the first hit.
Based on all the above evidence, I now fully expect her to be the first hit.
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 01:16 PM
I think this was based on my suggestion. I thought she was a man for ages as well. Plus she's a Tory peer, so fuck her.
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 02:47 PM
Octopus of Odstock, on 01 January 2012 - 11:55 AM, said:
Interesting pick. No updates to her thread for 5 and a half-years and one of those posts is to say she's in good health, two to say they thought she was a man and two to say that they knew someone similiarly named. So, it looks like she has been picked for age reasons only, I guess.
Based on all the above evidence, I now fully expect her to be the first hit.
Based on all the above evidence, I now fully expect her to be the first hit.
Octopus of Odstock, on 01 January 2012 - 11:55 AM, said:
Interesting pick. No updates to her thread for 5 and a half-years and one of those posts is to say she's in good health, two to say they thought she was a man and two to say that they knew someone similiarly named. So, it looks like she has been picked for age reasons only, I guess.
Based on all the above evidence, I now fully expect her to be the first hit.
Based on all the above evidence, I now fully expect her to be the first hit.
She gave an interview to the Guardian in November.
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Disinclined, at 90, to begin another Dalgliesh novel, on the grounds that to die leaving a manuscript unfinished would be "intolerable", she chose instead to pursue a long-cherished, if surprising, ambition.
Now she could just being practical, but that bit certainly suggests she doesn't expect to be around long enough to finish another book, however long that may be. Going off the science of a Wikipedia page, it takes about three years for her to write a book, and she was fixing this one up instead...
There's a lot of lines to read between there.
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Posted 07 January 2013 - 12:29 PM
This is the other pick I am not sure of (alongside Nicolas Parsons) whenever I see her she looks alert but considering we have never got over 20 I am not going to begrudge a few -"well they might" picks.
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Posted 07 January 2013 - 07:05 PM
Bibliogryphon, on 07 January 2013 - 12:29 PM, said:
This is the other pick I am not sure of (alongside Nicolas Parsons) whenever I see her she looks alert but considering we have never got over 20 I am not going to begrudge a few -"well they might" picks.
Most of my players don't understand the difference between probaility and wishful thinking.
Most of my players don't understand the difference between probaility and wishful thinking.
And plus having a few old-but-healthy people on gives a few safe choices for removal come next year
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Posted 20 April 2013 - 05:10 PM
A passage in this article says she didn't attend Thatcher's funeral because of "ill health"
Actually, here's the full excerpt (to save you guys the time of looking through the lengthy article):
"The crime novelist was invited to St Paul’s, but declined due to ill health and instead paid her respects at the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft on Tuesday night."
Actually, here's the full excerpt (to save you guys the time of looking through the lengthy article):
"The crime novelist was invited to St Paul’s, but declined due to ill health and instead paid her respects at the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft on Tuesday night."
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Posted 20 April 2013 - 07:06 PM
wildstorm, on 20 April 2013 - 05:10 PM, said:
A passage in this article says she didn't attend Thatcher's funeral because of "ill health"
Actually, here's the full excerpt (to save you guys the time of looking through the lengthy article):
"The crime novelist was invited to St Paul’s, but declined due to ill health and instead paid her respects at the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft on Tuesday night."
Actually, here's the full excerpt (to save you guys the time of looking through the lengthy article):
"The crime novelist was invited to St Paul’s, but declined due to ill health and instead paid her respects at the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft on Tuesday night."
I looked at the order of service for that do, it was all timed to the minute right up to when the Queen was due to arrive. People would have had to be sitting there for well over an hour before the service even began. Frankly, I would have come up with some excuse not to go, so it wouldn't surprise me much if someone in their 90s didn't fancy it.
(She'll keel over tomorrow now, won't she?)
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