Oh No! So sorry to hear about Col......RIP 

I'm so sad to hear about Cologne, a forum stalwart. She was someone I admired a great deal. Always bold in discussion, and never begging for our agreement ... I loved that!  I know her health suffered with the progressing years but I think she would have been great company and quite a gal in her day! A strong woman and an FM I valued. The forum is all the poorer for her passing.

Gaun yersel' Cologne  x

She once told me I had crap taste in music  She's probably right - I never appreciated her choices

 

in memory of Cologne I'll post this though.

 

Thank you for the pics Scotty, she looked exactly as I envisioned her xx

I'm sure she will pleased she educated you Soozy  

RIP Cologne. Very sad news.

Very sad to read.  Cologne and I were on the same page, politically, so it's very sad to read when a like minded person leaves this world.  Sad also as, politics aside, Cologne always came across as a lovely person full of empathy, humour and human decency.  The world is a worse place and more so this forum.

 

Even though I'm not religious in the conventional sense, I sometimes speculate if death is actually final.  I hope against my more rational instincts that it isn't and Cologne is in the best place. RIP Cologne!

 

 

very sad news  RIP Cologne

Ironically, I have been in Germany all week and have missed this

 

Night night Cologne ... I can't quite imagine the forum without you

I am very saddened to read that Cologne has passed away,I know she was not in good health for a long time,my heart goes out to her family at this sad time in their lives. RIP Cologne x

 

Thank you Scotty for showing the photos of Cologne, she was a beautiful looking woman,inside and out x

Nice to see you Marguerita even if it is under sad circumstances

She was very fond of you Scotty. I've just summoned up the strength to read through our pages of dialogue.  My hopeless attempts to purchase from various sources a particular German delicacy became a running gag. At one point I had people searching in Hamburg, Bremen, Oldenburg and Hannover for the damned product. We suspected eventually that it was no longer in vogue. As usual I'm off to Oktoberfest so I think I will put a padlock on the Hohenzollern Bridge when I change trains. I should have time to do so.

 

That's really lovely GJ, you were a great interwebby chum to Col

Nice idea, Joe.

Lovely post GJ

Yes indeed, Joe x

Im so sorry to hear this, I never really knew Cologne all that well but I always respected her posts on here...so very sad to hear this news.

 

Rest In Peace  x

Really sad news  

 

Baz told me the news yesterday as I was pottering down a canal in Venice (she doesn't half pick her moments) and I felt genuine sadness. We weren't really directly "forum friends" but you get attached to everyone on here in one way or another. I will miss her  

 

RIP Cologne  

 

 

Baz - it was actually a very well timed moment. If you're gonna feel a bit sad, you may as well do it with one of the best views in the world Thanks for letting me know  

I'm very sad to hear this. RIP Cologne

 

It is amazing and somehow heart warming when somebody you only knew from posts on line and recognise only by name and a tiny picture leaves such feeling of genuine loss and sadness.

 

RIP Cologne xxx

I am really sorry to hear this news

 

It is really lovely to see the pictures of her in happier times on this thread, thank you Scotty for posting them.

 

RIP Cologne

Syd you have said it all perfectly....

 

RIP. Cologne my forum friend

Saw the news on facebook recently. I was shattered. Loved Cologne's independence of mind and spirit. May she rest in eternal peace.

Such sad news, RIP Cologne x

 

I cannot say it any better than Syd.

 

 Very sad news.    RIP Cologne

I think everyone is now aware and it may be better to let her go. Mrs Jer reminded me that the Dom is nearer to the Hbf than the Hohenzollern Bridge so it might be more appropriate that I light her a candle on your behalf.

Please do Carport. A suitable way to celebrate a fiery lady. 

Only just found out.. Blimey

Cologne was one of a kind, a really lovely person who was never anything but sweet to me. Her fire in BB arguments was always amusing and admirable too. I adored her, and she always said hi to me if I popped in a tread she was in

I was asking about her on DS actually about 2 months ago.

RIP love x

I'm not sure if it's leaked here yet, but the equally lovely Don't Call Me Shirley, passed away also the other morning.. So sad!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, 

only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate, 

only love can do that. ~Martin Luther King.

 

RIP Cologne x

Just having a nosey at the forum very sad news to read this she was so straight forward and to the point.  Have many fond memories of posting and us sticking up for blind Mikey in bb when people were calling him all sorts of names 😃 funny how you can feel genuine sadness hope you are all well xx

Thanks for this TeePee.

So sorry to hear about Cologne. We had many wonderful chats here and elsewhere and I'll never forget how she was there for me when my dad died. A truly wonderful genuine kind soul. 

 

I only found out about this from logging into a FB account i haven't used in years. I hope everyone here is doing well 

Thinking about Cologne on her birthday...

 

 

And me..

Thinking of Cologne , and her family  

Thinking of Col.

Thinking of Cologne too. Dearly missed.

 

 

 

Col Remembered