Dr William Frankland

I've been listening to a lot of podcasts and January has been 10 hours of desert island discs through the night. I wake up listen to a bit and fall asleep. Some, like Sally Wainwright I've played 3 times as you miss so much at 4am so when that happens that's where I start the following night when I go to sleep, and whether its Mrs May, Kylie and co doing "Dancing Queen" or Judy Dench or former neighbour Michael Lewis taste is varied, but you'll usually get Louis Armstrong "its a wonderful world" or Ella Fitzgerald's "Strange Fruit" at least once a week. Bill, as he liked to be known was chatting about his life in 2015, he was 103. He was literally from another world and yet from this one, maybe it was me that was from another world. To think that he'd been lapping people by the time he sadly died in April, during the first outbreak of Covid-19 at the age of 108 is simply amazing. When it finished talking to Kirsty I put him in the good guy corner. You can always tell the good'uns, they say thank you and mean it. Sometimes they say thank you its been a great privilege, experience, honbour, and sometimes its a politicians hand off and "thank you, where are we next Jeeves." We liked Bill and after living through the Spanish Flu pandemic we're sorry you didn't get to live through another pandemic, but everyone with allergies owes you a huge debt. Thank you Bill.