RIP

Shit.

Doddery Old Fart is dead. For real.

Just popped over to his blog, Rest Area 300M, to see what he's been up to since I went away and there was 83 comments on the latest post. Thought my computer was having a fit or something but it was 83 condolences.

Doddery was New Zealand's and the world's only blogging road-worker. His real name was Simon Lindsay and all I've been able to find out so far about his death is that it was "sudden".

Soubriquet of Bench says it best for my money:

"The only consolation is that I understand he died suddenly, without warning, of natural causes.
I hope there's a heaven. And a new entrant... frowning at the road surface... searching around for some tools. Muttering about potholes."

Growabrain has a photo of him here and a memorial of beautiful photos of his area of work has been set up here.

Rest in peace, mate.