Death raffle...

In Leek last night. I popped into the pub where they have the Death Raffle, to find that John from Congelton was £88 to the good, having picked Zsa Zsa Gabor for imminent extinction. You can’t choose your own celebrity. There’s a list of names behind the bar, which includes such luminaries as Nicholas Parsons, Kris Kristofferson, Sean Connery, Roger Moore (the battle of the Bonds?), Paul Gascoine, Una Stubbs and Steven Hawking (“Die?”, said one local. “Nah, you just switch him off”)…