Anna Raccoon
The Landlady has left The Raccoon Arms.
We never met, but I feel I have lost a friend.
Rest in peace Anna.
Head Rambles
A sideways look at life by an Irish Grandad
The Landlady has left The Raccoon Arms.
We never met, but I feel I have lost a friend.
Rest in peace Anna.
I’m sad to hear that. The blogosphere won’t be the same without her
Mind you, I’m sure that she’s having a laugh at me winning the ISAC dead pool. She had that sort of sense of humour as was demonstrated when she mailed me back after I told her.
My thoughts turn to Mr G and her family. That cunt Rickie will no doubt be crowing – but she’d have taken that as a complement…
Although I rarely commented on Ms Racoon’s blog I read it as much as I could because it was fascinating and so well put together. I also feel that the blogosphere will be poorer for her passing. My thoughts and my prayers are with her family. Rest in Peace Anna
Dear Grandad
Sad news indeed and a great loss to the blogosphere.
Condolences to Mr G and Mme Raccoon’s family and friends.
Vale Anna Raccoon.
DP
We knew it was coming. Sad none the less. Vale Anna
Thank you for letting us know.
I am saddened to leard of her passing. I once met her, several years ago when she lived in Issigeac which is close to where I live. She invited me into her home and I met her husband breifly. I certainly understand his situation. We went to a small cafe very close to her home which I still frequent occaisionally ( and will continue to do so in her memory ). We discussed many things and I left with an impression that has lasted over the years. I was a regular reader of her blog and although I agreed with virtually all of her posts, her commentators seem most contrary. Rest in Peace Ms Raccoon, you more than deserve that after all the abuse you endured by your stance for the truth and that terrible malaise you eventually sucumbed to.
I will go and see Mr.G in the morning and come back, hopefully with a few more details.
Here for her friends is a picture I took of her back in April when she had just been given a 100 days to live *snork*
[I took the liberty of moving the photo onto the post – GD]
Yes she vaped in the hospital, no matter their spiteful little policy (same NHS Trust as the Hospice-From-Hell).
Any nice comments posted here or elsewhere (that I can find) will be passed on to her husband.
or you can email Mr G your condolences to me directly jacquesketch@gmail.com
RIP Susanne,
You entertained, educated and amused me for many years and will be greatly missed by all your friends. Just so glad you got home to spend your last days with your beloved Mr. G. My sincere condolences to him.
Carol
Adding my voice to this.
Many thanks for posting this notice.
What a good photo BD.
Please pass on our condolences to Mr. G.
So thankful she was at home overlooking her lovely garden and the river.
We will miss her acerbic wit and pungent comments!!
Best wishes
JJ and Fi, in Yorkshire
God bless her. What a woman she was! RIP Anna x
RIP Ms Racoon, now residing at the Angel’s Arms. Condolences and best wishes to her family.
RIP. She was brave in pursuit of truth.
I rarely comment on blog-posts, but I must send my condolences to her beloved Mr. G and all her family and friends. I was an avid Anna reader and will miss her posts.
“free from pain at last” go in peace and the love of all who wished they knew her.
RIP Anna. No more worries eh? Thoughts go out to her loving husband. I shall miss her very much. Read her stuff for a couple of years. Night Night, God Bless
RIP. Indeed a loss to both the blogosphere and truth.
RIP Suzanne, we”ll not see your like again for many a year.
A fitting memorial to this determined campaigner would be to sort out the poor standard of care in (some) hospices, beginning with Macmillan nurses, who, despite their reputation, are not all angelic.
can only agree, I had one who was brilliant and one I wouldn’t let look after my cat.
dear granddad i will miss anna racoon too very much, condoleces to mr.g. she was one of the best of us here on earth.
Sad to hear this, I always hoped something would come up to preserve her, a loss to the blogosphere. Condolences to Mr G.
Damn. Yes, we were expecting it, but still sad news.
“We never met, but I feel I have lost a friend.”- Granddad
Told you before she very definitely counted you as a friend and ‘a brick’ [sic]
Most here won’t know it but Granddad has been trying hard to fulfil one of her dying wishes (I can’t say anything more about that now) the last couple of days and I regret I didn’t get chance to tell her that in person. I did email her about it but I doubt she got to read them :(- same goes for a certain gentleman in Scotland who has fallen over himself this week to help.
Many thanks to you too TBD and Granddad for all your updates on Anna…much appreciated x
My condolences as well. I hardly knew her but I feel the loss just the same.
Robert Burns said it uncannily well (albeit in the other gender) in ‘Epitaph for a Friend’:
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with knowledge so inform’d;
If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.
So sad
The doyenne of bloggers. Always readable, and with a poignant personal history. Devotedly supported by her husband.
Rest In Peace, Anna.
You will be much missed Sue by me and all your friends…condolences to Mr G and your family
much love Carole
Haere ra Ms Raccoon and Kia Kaha to Mr G.
Read a few UK blogs and tend to keep reading the independent thinkers and the wordsmiths. AR had a way with words that always impressed.
Anna Raccoon was one of the first blogs I ever read – and found answers to my questions. A determined lady who also was not afraid to highlight the kind of care we all can expect from charities and their employed personnel.
RIP Mrs. Racoon. And, Thank you for your courage.
My heartfelt condolences to Anna Raccoon’s family.
An amazing woman. Condolences to Mr. G and the rest of her family.
Sad news indeed. I never met the indomitable lady but was always a fan of her deep and thoughtful scribblings. May she receive eternal peace.
“Any nice comments posted here or elsewhere (that I can find) will be passed on to her husband.”
I wasn’t going to post anything, thinking “what can I add?”. But if you are passing on comments, please add that her blog was one of the best: my first read of the day (even before Grandad). I’m not aware of any currently in the same class. I’m glad that the archive is there, now gently gathering dust on the interwebs, a reminder of some good times and her excellent writing. God bless.
She was the best of the best of the blogosphere. Nothing more to say really….
:o)
Many great bloggers out there but she was just superb on any subject she chose to fix on.
Outstanding and will be sorely missed
At peace now….finslly.
Rest in peace Ms Racoon,
your blog really did set the bar high. Honest, brave, factual, evocative.
i never met or spoke with you, my loss.
Anna one of a kind a fearless advocate for justice.You are missed.I wish you well Mr G you were her rock.
Her astoundingly good and insightful blog notwithstanding, for me the most memorable episode was her tracking down and confronting Tricky Dicky (for those who may not know, ‘Tricky Dicky’, or ‘Dicky Doubleday’ is one of the most unpleasant and disruptive trolls around, and has caused no end of problems for many bloggers) face to face in his home. She was utterly fearless.
An amazing woman. The world will be a poorer place for her loss.
Nothing to add. Her passing leaves a hole which will be difficult to fill. An incredible intellect and a wicked sense of humour.
Hi,
a sad day & my condolences to Mr.G. her family & her many friends.
Her articles were excellent & informative, cutting through the chaff on the internet – I know of not a single one that should not be preserved and available to all – I always carried a link to her sites, on my blogs and websites, when I could find them!
I do so hope someone more TechSavvy than I has a download of her sites – I would dearly love a copy if it is available and would be delighted to have permission to republish/post her articles for all to link to.
My main website is http://www.InfoWebSite.UK & when her articles are reposted you will find a prominent link there.
I will cherish her memory and am priviledged to have spoken with her several times but regret never having met her or Mr.G. face to face.
For Susanne the battle, the dependency, the pain, the brickbats of the ignorant and the ravages fear & indignities of cancer are over for those of us left a light has gone out.
RIP as you brought light into many dark corners & enlightened many as you passed throgh life, ever a parttisipant.
Regards,
Greg_L-W.
I read about her death from the Blocked Dwarf where he posted up. I really enjoyed her blog. RIP Anna.
Anna was remarkable in very many ways. Actually made positive differences in peoples’ lives, people who she didn’t know from Adam. I went out and got a Lasting Power of Attorney sorted after Anna enlightened us all about Jack Straw’s baby The Court of “Protection” to name a small personal example!
RIP Sue. You were one very brave lady. X
very sad. God bless her.
I am so saddened by this news.
Anna was a unique person, who by her humour, persistence and humanity enlightened many lives.
’nuff’ said.
And Mr. G who was her stalwart mate needs all our support.
Doonhamer.
dear granddad, i too will miss her. i read you and her and frank davis and vgif and dick puddlecte and others.blocked dwarf i read when he posts, and i enjoy you all. d doubleday i despise if only for how he harrassed ms. racoon. hell is too good for that one.i think she knew she was loved by all of us. i hope mr.g is all right.i believe she will be that star that shines brightest for many of us. the hospice (snork)she was at i would not put my worst foe in. they someday will know much shame for their heartless treatment of a person whom could not move. that part i skipped because it fills me with rage that nurses could behave so. kharma, GOD willing will see to them.to every one else i will bid you good day and enjoy life. we only live once. raymond barfoot
Like many I never met Anna but felt I knew her and counted her a friend. My condolences to her husband and family.
In paradisum deducant te Angeli; Anna.
To Mr G and many others affected I never met – heartfelt condolences.
Sad.
I only found today the news of her passing. And am sad. I’ve had the blessing of knowing Sue and Mr. G personally here in France. After they moved back to the U.K. and in view of her health problems, we didn’t meet again, but maintained occasional phone and email contact. I distinctly remember Sue’s first visit. We talked and talked and talked and felt like twins separated at birth … God bless her, what a woman!
I hesitate to call Mr. G. Can someone ask him, if it’s O.K. that I do?
I am just back from seeing G this morning as it happens (btw he seems ‘ok’-was making himself a bacon sandwich in a spotlessly clean kitchen when i arrived and also finally got around to showing me his boat even ). Sue changed all her phone numbers a couple of months before her death after she was trolled badly . If you’d like to email me your details and phone number I’ll pass them on to G . jacquesketch@gmail.com
Thank you. I’ve just mailed you.
Very sorry to hear that
If Blocked Dwarf is still passing on condolences to Mr G, please add mine
A latecomer as usual but then I half-suspected that having decided to take on the Reaper, Anna’s amazing strength of character would have obliged him to concede.
Anna Raccoon was my favourite blog and I particularly admired Anna’s intelligence, her thorough research and her determination to expose and right injustice. Her forensic analysis of the Jimmy Savile farago was outstanding. That said, the blog that most sticks in my mind was her account of the joy of a fete in a French village. If I recall correctly, it featured a high-wire act that had scant regard for health and safety: Anna’s warm and affectionate writing was sublime.
Sincere condolences to your family and wherever you are, Anna, keep kicking ass…