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Thread #106036 Message #2187636
Posted By: GUEST,Northerner
06-Nov-07 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Duncan Williamson: Stroke (Nov 2007)
Subject: RE: Duncan Williamson: Stroke
Thank you for the news about Duncan.
I was at the storytelling festival in Edinburgh and just returned yesterday. While there Donald Smith (Director of the Scottish Storytelling Centre) told a group of us at Jan Blake's workshop that Duncan had had a stroke. Later in the afternoon I asked the Centre staff to check that Taffy had been told. Later on they told me that it had been done.
I only had the bare information, that Duncan had had a stroke, nothing more. I phoned Stanley Robertson with the news this morning. His comment was "Duncan is resilient."
Duncan was one of my inspirations to start storytelling. I was lucky enough to be able to tell him a riddle and a couple of stories at the Guid Crack Club in Edinburgh a couple of years ago, and was rewarded with a pat on the shoulder and a peck on the cheek.
I have some gigs lined up from the end of this month onwards.
Let's keep the stories coming!!!
Diane Taylor