Dixie wrote:
I'm sorry but with the trouble we've had with the site I have missed the funeral, also I’m working away from home. I would like to have sent some flowers but it seems pointless now. I've sent a donation to Claire and I will also send a card when I get home. I will continue to support the SafeSpeed Campaign. Lets keep it going chaps. Hope the funeral goes well.
Dixie
I hope so too. I did manage to observe a two second pause at 12.30 pm. I went to the hospital chapel and lit a candle for him and said a quick prayer
and my wife says she did likewise. We may not have been able to attend in person.. but we thought of Paul as his funeral and tributes commenced in Inverness.
Dixie .. have mailed Roger off line as we have a few ideas we;re considering to cheer Claire.
We have sent a card and we have donated as posted by my wife on the PH site. Large family and the donation is made by one family member in lump sum - which looks " a lot" - but really reflects the cost of a bouquet by each of us.
It mounts up considerably in a collective body of goodwill - when you consider paying upwards of a fiver in Tesco etc these days.
If all who liked Paul (regardless of whether or disagree :wink (I am sure Steve did respect Paul really - eh Steve? eh? Be honest my foe and sometimes pal here on dafter politically incorrect issues
You have been helpful to me over some Cumbrian issues - despite your anger with me and my wife for "savaging your cams" Be honest Steve. I know you to be fair and decent enough on all other issues bar scam cams
) for what he stood up and fought for.. and just provided Claire with this small amount.. it mounts up to some considerable support to her to ensure livelihood and maintenance of Paul's legacy whilst his assets are frozen due to sudden death .. perhaps intestate and pending probate releases.
We are matching this with a donation to the British Heart Foundations in full recognition of Paul Smith's far too short - but still achieving life from the very irritating smilie fines. (we get fined by the family for silly smiley abuse .. My wife gets fined for every "ist/und" as well...
family kind and fine nominally .. but it still adds up
We donated percentage to Paul's campaign and the rest amongst various including CTC and victim of crime fund.
Method to the illusion of being "barking" or "colourful" as Paul once opined as a true gent
We each chatted to Paul on the phone on many an occasion and he really laughed in sheer enjoyment when chatting to Wildy - especially when she told off our sons with Paul listening in.
I seem to recall his belly laugh when Lukas interrupted one conversation by telling Paul that his Scalextric crash rate "regressed to the mean" and asked him if this meant he was getting better at spotting "hazards of potential crash with his "opponent driver" or if this stretch of a straight Scalextric stretch through the "Playmobil" town meant that the danger had regressed to the mean. I recall that Paul could not speak for laughing at the time .. and asked me if I had a minitiare Brunstrom or one devil.
I replied that we had one villainous rogue on our hands and that he knew darned well that his road had regressed to the mean of his fingers on the remote controls
Sure enough .. Lukas could explain that his eye/finger co-ordination became more practised as he learned from his mistakes and could Paul look at this observation of his?
Paul was .. as I understand .. looking into this very observation and I recall him gently telling Lukas on our "intercom" that he would look into this.
Lukas (then aged about 7 years) concluded that Paul was "one cool dude as he listened to him properly!"
I guess some folk never got to know the real Paul though. I did and my wife did.