Duncan Williamson: Stroke (Nov 2007)

Subject: RE: Dancan Williamson: Stroke
From: Mick Tems
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 10:48 AM

I'm sorry for the literals in this post: after all, it was 3am! The subject was DUNCAN Williamson - Joe Offer, can you help to alter the subject box, pretty please?

No, but your friendly, local, neighborhood, Clone can do it. Just a second---Okay, there you go. Happy to oblige.---Fat Clone

Subject: RE: Dancan Williamson: Stroke
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 05 Nov 07 - 08:04 AM

Sad to hear it. Duncan is a mentor to the entire storytelling community & I am honoured to have met and shared a tale or two with him over the years, although not for too long a while, alas.

And that handshake! I can still feel it yet.

Subject: Dancan Williamson had a stroke
From: Mick Tems
Date: 04 Nov 07 - 09:25 PM

I saw Taffy Thomas MBE at the Wales Milennium Centre, Cardiff Bay, and he had some bad news: Duncan Williamson, the Scottish traveller and story-teller, who is Taffy's mentor, had just had gone into Kirkcaldy Hospital with a stroke. At the moment he was without speech.

Taffy was caller, leader of Magic Lantern and then the instigator behind The Fabulous Salami Brothers. At the age of 36 he had a massive stroke, which put paid to his eating fire, dancing barefoot on broken glass and other tricks which the Salamis used to pull. He reinvented himself as the world's biggest liar-cum-storyteller. He was down at the WMC lauching a book, Storytelling and Emotional Literacy, with he co-wrote with consultant clinical pyschologist Dr Steve Killick.

On stage, Taffy said that the greatest tribute he could pay Duncan would be to tell one of the great man's audacious tall tales, to keep the tale thriving. Don't let the tale die!