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The 'Lost' Foxestalk Members

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cambridgefox

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RIP Ken.

Yes he got a bit of stick from time to time but I think everyone liked him.

if i was going to hospital I can guarantee I wouldn’t get one horse card.He must have got hundreds and that said a lot about him as a person on here and by the sounds of it off it.

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Unabomber

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13 minutes ago, cambridgefox said:

RIP Ken.

Yes he got a bit of stick from time to time but I think everyone liked him.

if i was going to hospital I can guarantee I wouldn’t get one horse card.He must have got hundreds and that said a lot about him as a person on here and by the sounds of it off it.

Nice words but to confirm I would send you a horse card

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Rincewinds sister

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On 19/03/2021 at 21:44, Rain King said:

Very sad. Stuck firmly to his beliefs championing the underdog in spite of some occasionally belittling comments. Sounds like he overcame a fair bit in his life.

Obviously benefitted from a number of horse get well cards a few years back.

 

He saved every single one of those get well messages. I have a box of his things, writings and photos etc. and they are all saved in there. Obviously meant a lot to him so thank you everybody.

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23 minutes ago, Rincewinds sister said:

He saved every single one of those get well messages. I have a box of his things, writings and photos etc. and they are all saved in there. Obviously meant a lot to him so thank you everybody.

Thank you for taking the time to sign up to FT to pass on your thanks. He was often ribbed on here for his writings and his views but I think lots of FT members understood that he was a genuine and principled person who cared about those less fortunate, even though he clearly had some struggles of his own. He was widely liked on here and I for one, would make a point of reading his posts.

He has been missed, (even though this is a largely anonymous forum where few people actually know each other) as you can tell from what's already been said. 

RIP Ken. Keep your eye on those who struggle in society. :appl:

 

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Ken would have taken any ribbing in his stride. He wouldn't have given it a second thought, so neither should anybody else. He grew up with 3 brothers and an annoying baby sister and between us we had a plethora of political views. Ribbing was compulsory. Any family get together usually included a passionate debate about politics. Mum tried to deflect by talking about a T.V. show, holidays, weather - whatever - but failed as we could read her like a book. We always debated but never argued - we respected each other's right to be a pillock. :D

His sense of fairness and his instinct to stand up for the underdog was the first thing that should have tipped me off that something was wrong. My husband shared a post on Facebook - usual stuff, pensioners get £65 a week and have to live off dog food while illegal immigrants get £600 a week and live in a £2 million pound house (or similar to that effect). I chuckled and sat back with the popcorn waiting for Ken to put him right - but he didn't. I thought he was maybe tied up with work now he was doing the OU course and dismissed it. Shortly after was mother's day and Ken never missed that, he would send a gift through the post or phone her and always sent a card. Mum is 90 and lives with me so when there was no card or call I got worried. Nothing arrived in Monday's post so I messaged, phoned, texted, whatsapped - asking "are you okay?". By Tuesday morning I still had no reply so I reported him as missing to the police as nobody else lived close by (remaining family live in Cumbria now). The police called round to his flat and found that he had passed away. He was just sitting slumped on his sofa and had suffered a pulmonary embolism/DVT. 

Ken was a massive LCFC fan and he took me to my first match when I would have been about 7 years old and he would have been about 18. I remember him taking me down to the front at Filbert Street and plonking me on the wall behind the goal with all the little boys (with 4 big brothers I was 100% tomboy). That would have been somewhere around 1970. Around 15 years later I was able to surprise him by returning the favour when I got my hands on a couple of FA Cup tickets for Leicester vs Watford. He lived and breathed the foxes.

Ken enjoyed the banter here - even if you didn't all agree all of the time - like I say, he would have respected your right to be wrong lol

He was an atheist as are the rest of the family (I think - unless we have a closet theist somewhere) so there is to be no service, it's an unattended cremation. For those of you that believe and wish to say a prayer, or for those of you that don't but wish to raise a glass (or scarf), his cremation is on 6th April.  

Cheers Ken - here's to the title winning season that we all celebrated and a life lived to the full  :beer:

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10 minutes ago, Rincewinds sister said:

Ken would have taken any ribbing in his stride. He wouldn't have given it a second thought, so neither should anybody else. He grew up with 3 brothers and an annoying baby sister and between us we had a plethora of political views. Ribbing was compulsory. Any family get together usually included a passionate debate about politics. Mum tried to deflect by talking about a T.V. show, holidays, weather - whatever - but failed as we could read her like a book. We always debated but never argued - we respected each other's right to be a pillock. :D

His sense of fairness and his instinct to stand up for the underdog was the first thing that should have tipped me off that something was wrong. My husband shared a post on Facebook - usual stuff, pensioners get £65 a week and have to live off dog food while illegal immigrants get £600 a week and live in a £2 million pound house (or similar to that effect). I chuckled and sat back with the popcorn waiting for Ken to put him right - but he didn't. I thought he was maybe tied up with work now he was doing the OU course and dismissed it. Shortly after was mother's day and Ken never missed that, he would send a gift through the post or phone her and always sent a card. Mum is 90 and lives with me so when there was no card or call I got worried. Nothing arrived in Monday's post so I messaged, phoned, texted, whatsapped - asking "are you okay?". By Tuesday morning I still had no reply so I reported him as missing to the police as nobody else lived close by (remaining family live in Cumbria now). The police called round to his flat and found that he had passed away. He was just sitting slumped on his sofa and had suffered a pulmonary embolism/DVT. 

Ken was a massive LCFC fan and he took me to my first match when I would have been about 7 years old and he would have been about 18. I remember him taking me down to the front at Filbert Street and plonking me on the wall behind the goal with all the little boys (with 4 big brothers I was 100% tomboy). That would have been somewhere around 1970. Around 15 years later I was able to surprise him by returning the favour when I got my hands on a couple of FA Cup tickets for Leicester vs Watford. He lived and breathed the foxes.

Ken enjoyed the banter here - even if you didn't all agree all of the time - like I say, he would have respected your right to be wrong lol

He was an atheist as are the rest of the family (I think - unless we have a closet theist somewhere) so there is to be no service, it's an unattended cremation. For those of you that believe and wish to say a prayer, or for those of you that don't but wish to raise a glass (or scarf), his cremation is on 6th April.  

Cheers Ken - here's to the title winning season that we all celebrated and a life lived to the full  :beer:

Thanks for the update. All the best to you and the family. 

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Aww man I'm gutted to see this news. I never met him, but found myself in the trenches with Ken among many policial arguments on here a good few years back.

 

And yes of course there was the horse cards, a genuine attempt to send our best wishes with some typical foxestalk humour. Amazing to find out he kept them. 

 

RIP Ken

 

 

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