Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes! (01/10/62 - 03/10/16) R.I.P.

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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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Happy Birthday, PH. I hope that these messages and the new on Facebook are getting to you. We all love you.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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Hi all,

I registered a while back to keep tabs on my old man (Purple Hayes) as him logging in here made me know he was doing fine and I didn't have to call him every day (he hated being checked on or fussed over - which some of you may have known about if you'd ever met him - very much his own man!)

Just to keep the board updated, he's struggling but clinging on in a hospice where he's been for the last few months. He hasn't been able to talk recently but he did hear these messages and was grateful for them when I told him this thread existed a few weeks back.

Keep him in your thoughts!

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ClashBoardJunior wrote:Hi all,

I registered a while back to keep tabs on my old man (Purple Hayes) as him logging in here made me know he was doing fine and I didn't have to call him every day (he hated being checked on or fussed over - which some of you may have known about if you'd ever met him - very much his own man!)

Just to keep the board updated, he's struggling but clinging on in a hospice where he's been for the last few months. He hasn't been able to talk recently but he did hear these messages and was grateful for them when I told him this thread existed a few weeks back.

Keep him in your thoughts!
Thanks for the update. I hadn't seen him on here and knew it wasn't likely going well. He is missed here.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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ClashBoardJunior wrote:Hi all,

I registered a while back to keep tabs on my old man (Purple Hayes) as him logging in here made me know he was doing fine and I didn't have to call him every day (he hated being checked on or fussed over - which some of you may have known about if you'd ever met him - very much his own man!)

Just to keep the board updated, he's struggling but clinging on in a hospice where he's been for the last few months. He hasn't been able to talk recently but he did hear these messages and was grateful for them when I told him this thread existed a few weeks back.

Keep him in your thoughts!
Really appreciate the update. Best wishes to you and Robert both. We're all certainly thinking of him here.
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Thanks very much for the update. Your old man is a solid dude. We're all the poorer for his absence.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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I'll chime in and repeat what everyone else has said.

Rob's a top bloke and we all miss him, and we wish him the best.
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Yep definitely repeat what others have said here. Rob's a top geezer and one of the soundest I've ever met.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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Hayes is one of the sharpest and most witty people on this board of generally sharp and witty people. We've missed him a lot. We wish him and the family all the best.
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I can't add anything to what has already been said apart from my best wishes.

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Thank you for the update. Sending our hugs your way.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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Best wishes to Rob. I've met him in real life and he's a top man. Hope everything is going as well as it can be for him. Thanks for the update.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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ClashBoardJunior wrote:Hi all,

I registered a while back to keep tabs on my old man (Purple Hayes) as him logging in here made me know he was doing fine and I didn't have to call him every day (he hated being checked on or fussed over - which some of you may have known about if you'd ever met him - very much his own man!)

Just to keep the board updated, he's struggling but clinging on in a hospice where he's been for the last few months. He hasn't been able to talk recently but he did hear these messages and was grateful for them when I told him this thread existed a few weeks back.

Keep him in your thoughts!
Thanks so much for taking the time to update us on this. Please extend my best birthday wishes as well.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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Purpley really is a cool guy, very funny too. All my best to him, and you as well, PH Jr. Thanks for the update.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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Nothing more I could add but to echo what's already been said. Best wishes to Rob and his family.
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Re: Happy Birthday, Purple Hayes!

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Thanks for the update, and all the best to Rob and his family.
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