"sacha" wrote

Bob Hobden said:

"sacha" wrote

I'm sorry to have to tell his friends on urg that David Poole died today
in Birmingham where he had gone to be with his family for Christmas.
He'd been ill in hospital since Christmas and things had been very up
and down all this time. Lately, things were looking a little more
optimistic and he really believed he'd be coming back to Torquay but
sadly, that was not to be. He will be very much missed by us and all
who knew him, as a kind and generous friend, always ready to help with
his time and enormous botanical expertise. We're feeling very sad
tonight and I know many others will feel the same.

Oh my God that is dreadful news. Whilst we haven't seen him on here as
much as he used to post I had corresponded with him a few times and we
had exchanged some plants in the past. At least he was with his family.

I hope they were with him, Bob but I don't know. He'd had several 'near
misses' over these last few months. The sad irony is that just as I was
taking the call that told me this horrible news, Ray was outside, taking
delivery of all the plants from David's garden which we'd said we'd look
after for him until he was able to return. The friends of his delivering
them still don't know of his death because they'd left by the time Ray told
me they'd been and gone.


Oh how awful, they will have such a shock. And what does Ray do with Dave's
plants now? Just gets worse.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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