Bill Sables died on Wednesday, 5 October 2022. He was Geordie, and he spoke Geordie to the point where it was impossible to understand him. He worked a career as a cameraman for BBC. He was retired when I visited him in 2002, but he was still working at his son's paintball course and as a (spooky) guide at the York Castle. He and Lorna had two neighboring row houses in Goole on the Humber, and they combined them into one residence and remodeled it into a magnificent home. They even had one room reserved for an owl they had rescued, so I got to meet the owl and feel all Harry Potterish. He took me to the British Railway Museum in York, which was like a trip to heaven for me. We ran into a security guard who was Geordie, and they started talking Geordie and I couldn't understand a word of it (and I loved it all). Geordie is absolutely the most interesting English dialect I have ever heard.
Bill and Mudcatter Allan Clark traveled all over the US to meet Mudcatters, and then Bill did the same thing in Australia.
Bill was known all over as a competent musician. His best-known song at Mudcat was "Whitby Fisherman." You can bet I'll grab the chance to sing it on Monday.
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Rest in peace, Bill. You were a good man. My condolences and tanks to you, Lorna.

-Joe-