Deadpool 2021

2020 saw the demise of three out of ten from the list of notable people I thought might not see 2021. In a normal year that would be quite a respectable score. It feels somewhat surprising that it’s “only” three given the ravages of COVID-19. That must say something about statistics.

 

Onward to 2021 and the list for this year’s “mortality lottery” looks like this:

 

Deadpool 2021

• Neil Percival Young (Musician)
• Leslie Samuel Phillips (Actor & Author)
• Gina Lollobrigida (Actress, Photojournalist, & Sculptor)
• James Earl Carter Jr. (39th POTUS)
• Philip Mountbatten (HRH The Duke of Edinburgh)
• Michael Caine (Actor)
• Anthony Dominick Benedetto a.k.a Tony Bennett (Singer)
• Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (Actress)
• Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (retired prelate of the Catholic Church)
• Kenneth David Kaunda (former President of Zambia)

And the best of luck to them all.

Random November and December

Wednesday 4th November

Pre-lockdown mk2 escape to the coast. Went down to Felpham, parked up behind the beach huts and walked along the front to Bognor Regis and back.

The seafront at Felpham, W Sussex

Unseasonably sunny and very pleasant. Stayed until the sun set.

Sunset at Bognor Regis

 

Monday 9th November

Working in Southampton because in spite of lockdown I can still be sent miles away to visit a customer. Who didn’t turn up.

Still, managed to pick up essential Xmas supplies while I was down there.

Twiglets at Hampton Telephone Exchange

 

Thursday 12th November

A long walk in the woods staying local, protecting the NHS, saving lives.Or whatever the current glib government slogan is. 

On Wildmoor Heath

Very much Autumn.

Autumn wildlife

 

Friday 13th November

Stayed home. Not for any superstitious reasons. Baked a cake.

Mmmm cake

 

Saturday 21st November

Not allowed to do anything else because lockdown so walked down the river to Blackwater Station. Turned round and walked back.

Blackwater River, Berkshire / Hampshire border

Blackwater Station, Hampshire 

 

Monday 23rd November

Permitted exercise walk around the meadows. Across the pedestrian level crossing.

GWR train heading towards Blackwater

The empty gate lodge has been vandalised.

Snaprails gate lodge

 

Tuesday 1st December

Bored with local now. Went to Frensham Little Pond (it was permitted in the “rules". 

Frensham Little Pond

Absolutely glorious.

On top of the world

 

Saturday 5th December

Hooray, allowed to travel again! Tubed to Sloane Square and walked to Battersea 

Sloane Square

then up through the West End to Great Portland Street.

Chelsea Bridge

London in the dark never gets old.

One Marylebone

 

Tuesday 8th December

A little trip to Winchester to survey a mobile phone aerial site. Fifteen minutes on site then home again. Still, gets me out of the house.

Mobile phone aerial site

 

Saturday 12th December

Back to walking on the local heath again. Too many other people had the same idea. Didn’t stay out very long.

On Wildmoor Heath again

There are many more photos on Flickr

The next couple of months could be interesting.

As in the Chinese proverb.