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Star deaths, star men and star quality

1/16/2016

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At the end of December I wrote a post about Lemmy’s death and the sense of loss I felt. I subsequently watched his funeral service, it was filmed and the coverage was streamed for the fans. An emotional couple of hours for me but I am glad I watched it. You can find the material on YouTube if you want to experience it too.

The death of David Bowie was another blow that left me feeling melancholic. Whilst I am an unapologetic head-banger and Bowie’s music doesn’t get much of an airing in my world - even I own and rate “Changesbowie”.  Another British legend gone and the world is a lesser place.

The deaths of our stars, brings me, by way of a word play, on to something lighter. One thing that had me thinking/feeling other worldly (and for a positive reason) was the latest Star Wars film. I went to the cinema on January 2nd and can report that I just loved the “Force Awakens”. Beforehand it felt a bit ridiculous to me that at my age, I was so excited about seeing the movie.

​My expectations were high and I was concerned it would be a let-down…

…but it wasn’t - in fact it was brilliant and I want to see it again.

There’s more uplifting stuff too. Space hasn’t just been top of mind because of Star Wars; Tim Peake and his exploits on the International Space Station have made space exploration cool all over again and, unlike Star Wars, this is happening in the real world. Peake has recently been on a space walk with his colleague (bizarrely also called Tim; who would have thought that the space station with so few people in it, and so far away from earth, would have two people on a mission with the same name) and I have to admit that watching it was awe inspiring.  

And on the subject of inspiring, this time much closer to home but still involving a pilot - Prince William was in the news this week for landing his air ambulance in the playing fields of John Henry Newman School in Stevenage.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-35307332

Whilst the medics were off doing their jobs, the prince queued up for lunch in the school’s canteen and then ate his food with the kids. That’s as brilliant as the spacewalk as far as I am concerned. As for Prince William – there’s no doubting his star quality.

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