Did you ever hear the late Sir Terry Pratchett refer to Alzheimer’s Disease — the condition he suffered with towards the end of his life — as ‘the embuggerence’?
I can’t say I’d blame him for digging up the old military term: it seems designed to describe the disease.
It took his life in 2015: and I, as many other, were heart-broken by the death of a man we’d never meet.
The reason I mention this, today … ?
Is that the condition’s taken another much loved star.
It’s been announced that 23rd December, 2016, saw the death of Andrew Sachs: best remembered for his role as Manuel, in Fawlty Towers.
But someone I remember as Toliver Groat: in the Sky TV version of Sir Terry’s Going Postal.
I think … well …
I think the world’s a littler sadder, today …
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