RIP David Bellamy
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I've just read this on my news feed and was about to post it and there it is already done. Such a nice bloke. Sad loss.
I am a bit unhappy about his passing, even though he had a good innings and had a nice job, somehow outdoor enthusiasm seem to have made a terrible loss. Hope someone comes along to take his place.
Well, gwapple me gwapenuts*, what a terrible shame.
What a lovely man he was.
*Bugger, I see someone beat me to it.
What a lovely man he was.
*Bugger, I see someone beat me to it.
Agree with all of the above - such passion and enthusiasm mere words cannot describe. And that beard! A sad loss indeed...
Aparently Mr Bellamy fell from favour due to questioning climate change, thats democracy for you !
That was a few years ago. I would be surprised if he hadn't changed his mind since in the light of increased evidence.
Yes, some of his politics were a bit fruity.
He once tried to stand as an MP for the Referendum Party.
Let's look aside these inconvenient things and remember him as the warm and friendly figure we remember from our childhood.
He truly had a love of wildlife, biology, botany, and a whole host of things and his wonderful enthusiasm rubbed off on many of us.
And I'm grateful for that.
I learnt recently that as a child he wanted to be a ballet dancer! It was only as he grew and he realised he didn't have the physique for it that his mind turned elsewhere.
He once tried to stand as an MP for the Referendum Party.
Let's look aside these inconvenient things and remember him as the warm and friendly figure we remember from our childhood.
He truly had a love of wildlife, biology, botany, and a whole host of things and his wonderful enthusiasm rubbed off on many of us.
And I'm grateful for that.
I learnt recently that as a child he wanted to be a ballet dancer! It was only as he grew and he realised he didn't have the physique for it that his mind turned elsewhere.
He was a great supporter of the Moorland Gamekeepers Association and always championed the benefit of habitat management by gamekeepers. Local to where I live he also helped in securing the future of an ancient woodland. Great bloke and a proper countryman.
RIP David
RIP David
Apparantly my former best friend at school went on to work with him on some UN project or other. I am prepared to forgive him for the climate change thing because he was generally on the side of the anglels so far as the environent is concerned, besides that he wrote in his autobiography that he had Asperger's syndrome, you know, like Greta Thunberg and yours truly.
