{"id":27398,"date":"2025-04-01T07:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T06:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27398"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:57:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:57:48","slug":"life-death-dan-ellis-feb-72-march-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27398","title":{"rendered":"LiFE &amp; DEATH: Dan Ellis, Feb \u201872 &#8211; March \u201825"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5352-1-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5352-1-576x1024.png 576w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5352-1-169x300.png 169w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img_5352-1.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dan and Amy, Hospice, Cambridge, March \u201825.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My dearest, oldest, longest term friend, Dan Ellis, passed away, last night. At 8.55 pm. Taken from us all by a rare form of cancer, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thymic_carcinoma\">Thymic<\/a> Carcinoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I reflect on the parts of my life that I shared with him, I think my fondest memories are amongst the oldest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We met at Comberton Village College, secondary school. We were young and innocent, kids becoming teenagers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recall staying over at his parents\u2019 enchanted and enchanting cottage, in Little Eversden, for sleepovers, and suchlike. Dan\u2019s parents, like Dan, were really wonderful people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The atmosphere of their family home was unique and magical. It was a favourite place of mine, to visit. Truth be told, I envied Dan such a Heavenly home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not sure that that idyllic place remains? As it was largely built\/added to by Dan\u2019s father, with no concerns re building regs, etc. And, after both Dan\u2019s parents had passed, it was sold, and possibly knocked down!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2000, whilst we were all still living in London, I was privileged to be asked by Dan to be Godfather to Ailwyn, their first child. And I wrote a little song for him, which I remember playing for them, in their parents paradisical garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dan and I also played music together, many times, over the years. Although drums are my main instrument, I would play guitar and sing, and he\u2019d accompany on flute. Sometimes joining in on vocals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His lusty singing of the chorus on \u2018One More Cup Of Coffee\u2019, by Bob Dylan, was a testimony to his own love of that rich, dark. stimulating bean!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dearest, oldest, longest term friend, Dan Ellis, passed away, last night. At 8.55 pm. Taken from us all by a rare form of cancer, Thymic Carcinoma. As I reflect on the parts of my life that I shared with him, I think my fondest memories are amongst the oldest. We met at Comberton Village &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=27398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LiFE &amp; DEATH: Dan Ellis, Feb \u201872 &#8211; March \u201825&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-77U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27401,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27398\/revisions\/27401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}