her wonderful daughter alex just told me that tina's gone ... last week i had promised her that paul newman would be waiting by the gate to lead her directly, hand in hand, to the bluebell wood

...and this is what was playing on the radio when i got the message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri2CzfI84Wk&feature=related

read all about it ! read all about it ! mystery patient ( tina schol, the last time i set eyes on her ) wears no-longer-fashionable sweater knitted by photographer's mother ( sylvia forward ) twenty-five years ago whilst scrutinizing terry pratchett interview in today's guardian ... and she's only the very same person that slipped a copy of "mort" to me about twenty years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/oct/14/terry-pratchett-life-writing