Sad news...passing of a fellow retro Anorak

[Alison]

Isaac_AG, all the very best with the future I really mean that.

Thank you, that is very sweet of you.

I hope we can all have a future we can look forward to.

Alison

 

[Ernie]

An update...

Spoke to Darrens mum, Darren is being "taken" back home to County Durham..On wednesday 25th April there will be a service in the village church where he was baptized..he will then be taken to the crematorium.

I would like to say "thanks" to all who have contributed to this thread. I know by reading this alot of you have been very open and honest about a very serious and sensitive nature. I am a great beliver that there is always some good that comes from bad. I believe that this has been highlighted , and made these issues more "high" profile than prior to this thread being started.

Thank you very much especially to dyna-ti, Sylus{welcome back}, greenstlies, LGF and Isaac_AG

RIP Darren/Space Monkey

Thanks Ernie

 

[videojetman]

just read this, very sad indeed.
i find my bikes are the best anti depressant these days.
better than any medication.
my heart goes out to those close to darren / space monkey.

 

[trickylad]

Puts a lot into perspective.

RIP Darren. Hope you've found some peace.

Time to look out for each other.

 

[Andy R]

i find my bikes are the best anti depressant these days.
better than any medication.

For me, certainly, this much is true. Not so much the bikes but where they can take me, what they can let me do and, at times, what they have liberated me from.
My wife, Karen - her first husband took his own life about 21 years ago, leaving her with two young children. Her greatest sorrow is that he never (through his own choice) got to see them grow into the people that they are today. Of course, she would say that a large part of that credit should go to me but I say that's probably crap - I've never been that good at anything in my life....

 

[Neil]

i find my bikes are the best anti depressant these days.
better than any medication.

For me, certainly, this much is true. Not so much the bikes but where they can take me, what they can let me do and, at times, what they have liberated me from.
My wife, Karen - her first husband took his own life about 21 years ago, leaving her with two young children. Her greatest sorrow is that he never (through his own choice) got to see them grow into the people that they are today. Of course, she would say that a large part of that credit should go to me but I say that's probably crap - I've never been that good at anything in my life....

Maybe that's crept up on you, maybe you're good at being a dad. Some say the last to notice those things are themselves.

In my experience, most people who've grown up to be good people, largely do so because of how they've been raised.

 

[Rusty Scrubber]

 

[highlandsflyer]

In my experience, most people who've grown up to be good people, largely do so because of how they've been raised.

I appreciate what you are saying, but my experience tells me some people are good no matter how shit their backgrounds.

Don't give up on life just because it started hard.

Love and light.

PS Having read what I wrote it is tosh, as your point covers what I said.

I am usually to be found whisky bound and irrelevant this time on a Saturday morning.