Reply to: Contractor till I die - last invoice now posted

[mudskipper]

In a couple of days, it will be one year that this thread was started. That seems an appropriate point to making it unsticky.

Aye, he didn't get long enough.

[NotAllThere]

In a couple of days, it will be one year that this thread was started. That seems an appropriate point to making it unsticky.

[yetanotherbob]

Not been around much of late, but very saddened by this news.
I've poured a large one and am raising my glass to you Doodab.
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I got busy with a new contract around the time this thread started.. Now 7 months later I visit and read he is no more.
Life is so fleeting and temporary. Hope he made the best of his last days. R.I.P.

[tarbera]

Mark at the Pearly Gates

Mark Is met at the Pearly Gates by a brass band.
Saint Peter runs over, shakes his hand and says “Congratulations!”
“Congratulations for what?” asks Mark
“Congratulations for what?” says Saint Peter. “We are celebrating the fact that you lived to be 160 years old.”
“But that’s not true,” says the consultant. “I only lived to be forty.”
“That’s impossible,” says Saint Peter, “we added up your time sheets!”



If you laughed donate here - https://www.justgiving.com/William-Hodges2/

if not donate here - https://www.justgiving.com/William-Hodges2/

[NickFitz]

I think he said he wouldn't wanted it publicized. Knowing their dad had been virtually hanging out with us lot of weirdos is probably something best kept quiet.

Indeed:

CUK is definitely stating separate from my family life.

[MarillionFan]

It would be good for them to know hes been the inspiration behind it and also with all 3 pages he's managed to raise almost 2500 quid so far!

I think he said he wouldn't wanted it publicized. Knowing their dad had been virtually hanging out with us lot of weirdos is probably something best kept quiet.

[norrahe]

I've never known anyone complain about receiving sympathy cards and phone calls in a "drip-drip-drip"! In my experience people like the human touch, etc.

I assume Mark's family have also been given the link to the CUKBook JG page?

It would be good for them to know hes been the inspiration behind it and also with all 3 pages he's managed to raise almost 2500 quid so far!

[d000hg]

I've never known anyone complain about receiving sympathy cards and phone calls in a "drip-drip-drip"! In my experience people like the human touch, etc.

I assume Mark's family have also been given the link to the CUKBook JG page?

[NickFitz]

I imagine it is also very easy to give directly to both of those and cut out the "agent's cut" to justgiving... Depending if you just want to give, or want his family to know you are giving (another option being to give directly and PM chef if he's ok with that)

Justgiving's fees are pretty fair

https://www.justgiving.com/fees/

WmsS. JustGiving aren't Goldman Sachs.

If anything, it's better to give through them. doodab's father has chosen to use them, and you should respect his choice. It means that he can keep track of donations in one place at a time of his choosing, rather than endure a drip-drip-drip of individual responses, each well-meant, but each, on arriving individually, cutting like a knife as it reminds him of his family's loss.

[mudskipper]

I imagine it is also very easy to give directly to both of those and cut out the "agent's cut" to justgiving... Depending if you just want to give, or want his family to know you are giving (another option being to give directly and PM chef if he's ok with that)

Justgiving's fees are pretty fair

https://www.justgiving.com/fees/

[d000hg]

Make sure you do it via the company books, folks. It's what he would have wanted.

I imagine it is also very easy to give directly to both of those and cut out the "agent's cut" to justgiving... Depending if you just want to give, or want his family to know you are giving (another option being to give directly and PM chef if he's ok with that)

[mudskipper]

Good show CUKkers - we couldn't help doodab (not directly anyway, I like to think that CUK was in some way therapeutic ), but we can help the people who did help him. Hopefully it's nice for his family to know how well regarded he was too.

[NotAllThere]

What MSS

[Old Greg]

Thanks for passing on Chef !

Make sure you do it via the company books, folks. It's what he would have wanted.

[TestMangler]

Marks dad has set up 2 just giving pages.

The chosen charities are Cancer Research UK, in the hope that a combination of prevention, earlier detection and more successful treatments could spare the lives of others.


The other is St Raphael’s Hospice in North Cheam, where Mark spent his last few days and was well looked after, as best he could be, by the caring and dedicated team.


http://www.justgiving.com/William-Hodges1

http://www.justgiving.com/William-Hodges2

Thanks for passing on Chef !