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captain black said:
Time Team's Professor Mick Aston passed away last night

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23041568

I feel the need to grab my trowel and spend the day scratching around in some dirt in memory of Mick
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Gee that makes me sad, I remember him getting all excited about an iron age site. Such a nice guy.
I wonder if he will put his bones somewhere within a 21st century context in the hope he might be dug up in 1000 years.
 
Knobby22 said:
Gee that makes me sad, I remember him getting all excited about an iron age site. Such a nice guy.
I wonder if he will put his bones somewhere within a 21st century context in the hope he might be dug up in 1000 years.
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Yeh, he always reminded me of some of the eccentric old hippies that come down from Adelaide on the weekends to go out canoeing and bushwalking. There's so much crap on TV nowdays it was great to watch a show with genuine people like Mick Aston and Phil Harding. I've got some old episodes on my media player; having a Time Team marathon today (in between going out in the backyard and scratching around with the trowel )
 
Thanks for letting us know, Boggo. I'm so sorry to hear that. I can still hear his distinctive voice.
Commentators and interviewers these days could learn a lot from him.
 
A Frost interview which I more-or-less recall was a double with then P.M. Whitlam, and (unless I've got it wrong - possibly Snedden?) opposition leader Fraser.

His leading question to each, in turn "What characteristics about your counterpart do you admire most?"

Frost had something of the real person in his television persona.

And as for his exit from this world, on the job, on a cruise ship somewhere out on the ocean...

... sounds pretty reasonable. (2nd best to Snedden perhaps... : )
 
Seamus Heaney, Irish poet. His last words ironically texted to his wife were 'noli timere', Latin for 'do not be afraid'.


"It is always better

to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.

For every one of us, living in this world

means waiting for our end. Let whoever can

win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,

that will be his best and only bulwark."
 
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