Spike Milligan's Headstone

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Everyone,
Did anyone see the amusing story on the Sussex Rootsweb about Spike Milligan?  Apparently after about two years Spike, who had an Irish passport, has been granted the following inscription on his headstone at St. Thomas's Church, Winchelsea, West Sussex.  It says:
"Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite" which is Gaelic for:
"I told you I was ill"...
Keith

[Dimps]

Spike Milligan lived in Dumb Womans Lane and I've often wondered who she was.

Deborah

[joboy]

Ah yes ....... Spike was the greatest.
When he visited his mum here in Woy Woy OZ he said;
"If they dropped an atomic bomb on Woy Woy it would do $300 dollars worth of damage"

Ying tong, ying tong, ying tong, ying tong, ying tong yiddle I po.
joboy

[Keith Sherwood]

A few years ago when I was still teaching at my Primary School we had a "Book Week" and the children wrote, extremely optimistically, to Spike Milligan asking whether he could maybe come to our school and give a talk or read his own poetry.
With several modern authors, perhaps, we would not have had a personal response, but Spike wrote in his own hand, regretting that he couldn't in fact make it, and ..."you do realise that I am seventy-eight years old now, don't you...?"
Keith

[Rod In Sussex]

Deborah,

Passed Dumb Womans Lane on my way back from Rye today and thought od Spike. 

Rod