People you forgot were still alive

Henry Kissinger

Ken Bates.

Jimmy Tarbuck

Michael Heseltine

Joan Collins

Mark Arthur

Mike Yarwood

My mum

Loaf.

One of my uncles might be alive, or maybe he’s not. I forget which and now I’m too afraid to ask anyone.

I have an Irish mother so she fucking LOVES telling me about the deaths of random third cousins I met on a farm when I was six… but the uncles and aunts are all very well known to me, which is why it’s awkward. All the rest are definitely alive.

I'm going back over in a couple of weeks. I can ask my mum as she also keeps up to date with these things. She's bound to know.

My mum is also very good at this sort of thing.

Not so much with Irish relatives as they're all on my Dad's side and for most part, dead, but she does like to talk a lot about former colleagues I never heard of and their extended families as if I'm on personal close terms with them.

Elizabeth Taylor

The famous one isn’t

George Hamilton.

I guess he must still have his tan if he is still pottering around.

Chicago: Curious.