JOHN FORTE - DRAGON-SLAYER

JOHN FORTE OBITUARY

~ Daily Telegraph ~

A noble tribute to our John Forte - truly a National Treasure and truly ours, his DNA in every stitch and workaday fabric of our marvelous island.

Doesn't it warm the cockles when someone we know as wonderful is hailed on a deservedly wider front?

Athens News ~ one of the joys of trotting out this blog sans accountability is that I can toss a bouquet of my own without fear of the dread blue pencil ["Enough smarm - Ed].Loipon, my personal salute to AN's Damian Mac Con Uladh who is a joy to work with and is right there, a man who faffeth not and delivers.
He and I chatted on the 'phone and before I'd tilted the cap off the first Guinness, et voilà!, Damian had hammered out an online laurel.

Nadia Forte and Marjorie Holmes ~ charming photo on a radiant Corfu day. I thought I'd slip it in somewhere.

Personal ~ a memory.

Holy Trinity Church, Corfu - Bravo editrice Carol Sherratt asking for in time and making the deadline for our church's own coverage.Songbird~ grand-daughter Isabella Chakiris sang this at the memorial service. Wonderful voice.
Isabella actually played a recording of this moving rendering and I slightly teased her at the service for not singing it 'live'.
She said she could not have kept hold of her emotions.
When I played it later alone back home on my computer, I was blubbing by the third verse and had to hit 'pause' before I made a complete crybaby fool of myself in front of the animals.
How John would have been chuckling.
Again I say - and again - Well played, that man.