tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post4343991465599933923..comments2023-09-30T15:56:17.784+00:00Comments on Fairing's Parish: RequiescatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-73594409778891177992012-03-12T14:04:34.988+00:002012-03-12T14:04:34.988+00:00Thank you, Rebecca. Ray never actively tested the ...Thank you, Rebecca. Ray never actively tested the breadth of my reading or my drinking stamina, probably knowing he would be disappointed, but was always very kind to me. I remember some seriously humorous exchanges with him over lunch and at the porter's lodge and his wonderful contributions to some depressing meetings.mdamfshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17952003704575391213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-3505709293107510502012-03-11T22:08:35.168+00:002012-03-11T22:08:35.168+00:00Dear Rebecca
This has amused me and made me proud ...Dear Rebecca<br />This has amused me and made me proud in equal measure. Thank you so much for your beautiful words, I think they capture my grandfather brilliantly. If you have any stories not quite so appropriate for public consumption I would relish the chance to hear them! <br /><br />FYI my brother is young and single...if only 16.<br />NellNellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456621981037854609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-16358888799972715342012-03-11T21:48:54.673+00:002012-03-11T21:48:54.673+00:00As Ray's elder daughter (and mother of his onl...As Ray's elder daughter (and mother of his only grandson, currently 16) I'd like to thank you for the above piece which encapsulates so much of Ray's charm and quirks - and the extraordinary kindness, fun and bonhomie that lurked under a sometimes forbidding exterior. The description of him as a scary beer-monster is one I will treasure and not significantly disagree with. <br /><br /TUB-THUMPERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14602965872135759319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-26525328600717533712012-03-11T16:35:59.789+00:002012-03-11T16:35:59.789+00:00Hi Juliet, I deleted your first comment because yo...Hi Juliet, I deleted your first comment because you'd posted it twice, and now it looks like you wrote something to which I objected... Sorry about that!RJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128262293399766342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-61144067690873983752012-03-11T16:28:39.637+00:002012-03-11T16:28:39.637+00:00I really enjoyed reading this, Rebecca. I didn...I really enjoyed reading this, Rebecca. I didn't really know Ray very well at all, but I have many fond memories of him (from him propping up the bar of a lunchtime when I was an undergrad, wearing his runic jumper, to him spending ages entertaining Ishbel when she was very small at a garden party one summer).Juliethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10570926810087254611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-24502767642849017682012-03-11T16:26:56.196+00:002012-03-11T16:26:56.196+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Juliethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10570926810087254611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-82516972722710239472012-03-11T15:38:50.143+00:002012-03-11T15:38:50.143+00:00His tetchy suggestion that the arguing parties sho...His tetchy suggestion that the arguing parties should just go to the pub together had quite a lot of sense to it...RJRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128262293399766342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531041.post-10718160320289007532012-03-11T15:22:52.391+00:002012-03-11T15:22:52.391+00:00Thanks for this, Rebecca. I remember Ray for his ...Thanks for this, Rebecca. I remember Ray for his wonderfully grumpy comments at college meetings (and his good sense during the Troubles) and for his kindly growls at the kids when we'd pass him along Silver Street. Oh, and for his way with a mobility scooter. His pencil portrait in the Green MacCurdy room captures him well, I think, even though he was much older when I knew him.James Warrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262258553733864003noreply@blogger.com