Sad news today from Costa Rica: Danny Carranza has died, some six months after diagnosis of a metastatic cancer. He and our friend Phil Copeland had been partners for over ten years, and he had seemed to be coping well with chemotherapy, until he took a sudden turn for the worse a couple of days ago. The photo was taken just less than ten years ago when they visited us in Tonbridge, and we hauled them up to Ightham Mote in dreich October weather. Danny was a keen bird watcher, and we had to keep stopping to let him get photographs of pheasants, which he had never seen before. Another of his interests was orchids, and I remember sending him (doubtless quite unlawfully) some seeds from wild orchids that popped up occasionally in the garden. Never heard whether he managed to germinate them: they are notoriously difficult. A gentle soul, Danny: he will be much missed.
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