{"id":2390,"date":"2012-05-31T07:35:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T06:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2012-05-31T07:35:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T06:35:18","slug":"sudden-death-of-college-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2390","title":{"rendered":"Sudden death of college friend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dot's college friends pictured by Pete Stokes at our ruby wedding anniversary. Jan (Pete's wife) is fourth from the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not a happy start to the week: Liz Stabler rang as Dot was leaving the house on Monday and told us that Dot’s college friend Jan Stokes (formerly Kidd) had died 0f cancer. Huge shock: we didn’t even know she was ill. Apparently she herself didn’t know about the cancer until a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n

Then we discovered that our nephew Joe has multiple sclerosis: fortunately the less severe kind \u2013 intermittent instead of progressive \u2013 but still a tremendous blow for him and Birgit, and for his parents.<\/p>\n

Third, and rather less seriously, I got a phone call late in the evening from Lucy to tell us that the consort of viols from Cambridge had decided not to play in the evening on June 9, but in the afternoon, thus making a nonsense of all our publicity. Ironically I had distributed some flyers to the tourist information centre, St Peter Mancroft and several businesses on Elm Hill when we checked the venue on Saturday. Ho hum.<\/p>\n

The three of us met (with Kay) at Fakenham today to decide what we’d do about it and \u2013 mainly \u2013 to rehearse the script. The latter went well \u2013 Caroline had written a new song \u2013 and we decided to just forge ahead and do our own thing in the evening on the 9th, letting the viols get on with it in the afternoon. Out, viol spot.<\/p>\n

Dot hasn’t been well, but is now better. We went to a concert by Duke Special<\/em> at the Open on Sunday night, and she felt ill on the way there and the following day. The concert was nevertheless brilliant: DS is a great live artist and a top songwriter. The Cracknells and Heybournes were also there. We got there about 7.15, but there were two support acts before DS took the stage at about 9.15pm. One of them was local and not my kind of thing at all; the other was Foreign Slippers<\/em>, who were quirky and pretty good. Great evening: even made Dot feel better, though she relapsed afterwards.<\/p>\n

Had our hair cut yesterday, and in the evening Steve Fiske came round to sort out the worship songs for June 10, when the Archdeacon is paying a visit and we have a joint service at St Luke’s. Brought back memories of when we used to play together at St Augustine’s.<\/p>\n

After several days of warm sunshine,today is cooler, with rain promised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a happy start to the week: Liz Stabler rang as Dot was leaving the house on Monday and told us that Dot’s college friend Jan Stokes (formerly Kidd) had died 0f cancer. Huge shock: we didn’t even know she was ill. Apparently she herself didn’t know about the cancer until a couple of months … Continue reading Sudden death of college friend<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[959,1691,1682,1690,1426,1146],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-college","tag-duke-special","tag-hungate","tag-jan-stokes","tag-joe","tag-paston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}