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[WiredbyWilson]

RIP Taffy.

Never met him but his wealth of knowledge seemed to know no bounds. Sleep tight fella.

Condolences and thougths go out to his family and friends at this sad time

[Trail of Dead]

This is a poem I saw someone had posted about one of my cousins. It is beautiful and thought it was fitting for Taffy's friends/family:

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other,That, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used to. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect. Without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you. For an interval. Somewhere. Very near. Just around the corner. All is well.

Death Poem by Henry Scott Holland ~ 1847-1918

[alexcrosse]

been looking at this all day not really knowing what to say

rip taffy, you will be hugely missed, it'll be weird not seeing your avatar floating around the threads. Cheers for helping everyone on here over the years. you wont be forgotten!

[minili]

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other,That, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used to. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect. Without the trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you. For an interval. Somewhere. Very near. Just around the corner. All is well.

Death Poem by Henry Scott Holland ~ 1847-1918

Beautiful

[The_Mistro]

this is such sudden news and so unexpected, taffy was the most enthusiastic and clued up guy about minis, he was nothing less than a TMF legend! i agree that there needs to be some way to honour him i am going to be donating money to the fund!

i will have my mini in swansea for the next couple of weeks, if the procession is in that time frame and if there are going to be TMF representatives in the procession i would very much like to join them to honour taffy!

[Miniphernalia.co.uk]

Im hoping to be able to attend the procession, I first worked with Taffy when Alt.autos.mini was taken over by Trolls. Taffy, Rocky, Fitzy and others including myself all tried to keep the newsgroup going and free from hassle, it was sad then to walk away from the group but not as sad as I feel now...

[techno-steve]

i never met him , but everytime i seemed to post owt we ended up friendly bikering witch was always a laugh

RIp mate

[TAFF]

Really nice Gent and all the comments here are testement to the Nice guy he was,

Sincere condolences to the family.

[Rich.]

RIP mate, i have only been on here for a month or two, but you made one hell of an impression on me in that very short space of time, says it all really.

Im based up in Newcastle, but if you need someone with a DSLR to come and get some photos of the car then my mini should be finished in a week or two, and i couldn’t think of a better and more purposeful first outing for it! And same goes for a procession if it goes ahead, comments on a forum are all well and good, but i couldnt think of a more meaningful gesture than fans and followers from all over the UK coming together to show our condolences.

Rest in peace my friend.
Rich

Edited by Rich., 23 May 2010 - 08:09 PM.

[leaky]

RIP Taffy. I never met you but used your advise and watched your videos god knows how many times.

[robtheplod]

RIP Taffy, you helped me out on several occasions......... Taffy is the 2nd loss of a mini friend to me in the last 6 months.

[The Matt]

I'm shocked and saddened.

There's not much I can say other than to echo the thoughts already in here.

Taffy was a true enthusiast. This enthusiasm shone through with all of his help and his willingness to advise one and all. This forum, the whole mini scene will really miss you.

My thoughts are with his family and friends. May you rest in piece, Taffy.

Truly shocked, can't believe I've read about this. I wish I'd had the chance to meet you in person.

[Linzi]

RIP Taffy

[CharlieBrown]

Sad news. My condolences to his family.

[bromfordmini]

r i p taffy go fix minis in the sky .good advice always give great loss