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I was thinking about how the outside of our house is in dire need of redecorating again, and wondering whether I should contact Oh Dear Dave (the guy who did it last time, way back in 2010/11). I hadn't kept in touch with him since the Dragon's Den application debacle, which some of you might vaguely remember. I'd eventually bitten the bullet and told him I categorically couldn't edit his submission. He'd not been happy with me, and then went radio silent, which I wasn't surprised about.

Anyway, he might not have been able to write for toffee, but he was a good painter and decorator, so I thought I'd try and track him down. Now I'm unreasonably upset to find out that he died of cancer in 2017, which is just so terribly sad. He had a wife and the cutest little curly-haired little boy called Cyril (who calls a kid Cyril in this day and age?), and I dunno. I think he may have already been ill when I was turning down his editing job.

Anyway, I'm sad he's gone, and sad I didn't know until now, because I'd have sent his wife some flowers or something.

I found a video he made when he decorated our next door neighbour's house - he still cracked me up saying it had been a prostitute's den. (It was a Swedenborgian Meeting House!!)