Bagpuss.
1944? - 7th May 2006.

She had been very ill for a long time, was diagnosed with cancer around 15 years ago and though she had many years of the quality of life she so treasured, the treatments just were not enough when she became more ill recently. Despite this illness she was one of the most alive people I have ever met, her wonder and appreciation of the simple things in life and her inordinate sense of fun, shone through in her posts in here and also in her everyday life.

Her friendship enriched me, I value it greatly. It will help me with the pain I feel as she takes what she always described as the 'next step on her journey'.
For those of you who knew her, once our tears have dried, you can come and join me in my smiles at the memories of the walks round the loch, the tales of the wildlife and the thanks I will be giving in my 'words' tonight for being able to share a small part of life's journey in her company. She will be with me in every sunrise or sunset I ever see.

My thoughts tonight are with her husband, her family and all those who knew and loved her.

And with me. She was one of those people I feel honoured to have known and called a friend.

My thoughts tonight are with her husband, her family and all those who knew and loved her.

My condolences to everybody who knew her, the world for them is a sadder place without her.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to new understanding
with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for a while,
leave footprints on our hearts
And we are never, ever the same.

For a person so ill she amazed me when we met. She forgot all her troubles and concentrated on mine. A really lovely lady who I will remember with happiness and love.

We all have to go sometime but Krys deserved a less painful life. I will always remember her courage, her devotion and her tremendous sense of fun. She loved life. I truly hope she is now having peace from all her pain and a time to enjoy the next world.

My heart goes out to her family, they will miss her a great deal as I will, she intended to meet up with us again this year, "Bring your caravan up my way," she said. We agreed we would.

Of all the people I have ever met, that applies to Krys more than any. Even in the truly horrible times she *always* thought of others and found something to have a giggle about. I will treasure the sound of her laugh and that will be my abiding memory of her.

I am so sad to read that Boo. I never had the pleasure to meet her in RL but her walks around the loch were so pictorial that for me i always felt i was there and i had a lovely image of her in my mind as i have now with i must say a tear.

We have many happy memories of the time we spent chez Bagpuss, the many laughs we had and the way she bent over backwards to give us a really good time and to show off her beloved country, even though she was not in the best of health even then. We will be sad not to see her again in this life but know that one day we will meet again. Krys is no doubt getting together with Allen and Cobweb and preparing a special Silversurfers corner where we will all meet one day

Thank God she is free from pain now. My thoughts and prayers are with her husband and family, and all her furry friends who will miss her.

I only met her a couple of times, when Boo & I took a trip up there - Waaay Ooop North, in Bonnie Scoootland - to sort out her PC (one of them was the occasion of the famous "Exploding CD")!

We guessed from her long absence recently that she'd been seriously unwell, but not this . . . . . . .
Prayers, condolences, they just don't seem enough but it's all we can offer to her family, her friends, her dogs, the wildlife around the loch, the animals she so obviously loved.

Boo - can we do something to remember Bagpuss ? Can we donate to her donkey charity ? I'd love to do that in memory of Bagpuss. If I remember correctly Bagpuss donated rather a lot to the Tsunami disaster - let's do the same for her donkeys.

Boo, be sad for your friend but remember all the joy she brought to your life.
Silversurfers, we will remember her posts with fondness & if we are lucky meet her some day. God, take care of her.

What a wonderful spirit and imagination she had! She has left a bit of herself within each of our hearts. Whenever someone mentions the BYT, we will think of her. My condolences to her family and to her many friends.

From 'Cities and Thrones and Powers' Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth,
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth, The Cities rise again.

This season's Daffodil,
She never hears
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last year's:
But with bold countenance,
And knowledge small,
Esteems her seven days' continuance
To be perpetual.

So time that is o'er kind,
To all that be,
Ordains us e'en as blind,
As bold as she,
That in our very death,
And burial sure,
Shadow to shadow, well-persuaded, saith,
"See how our works endure!"

Mornings will never be the same again. Those very early walks around the loch in leaking wellies are something I'll always remember. Bagpuss brought to life all the wonders of wildlife and I'll always remember the saga of the deer and little bambi who appeared to be missing but turned up in the long grass a few days later.