Leslie Plater (6 Nov 1965 - 17 Oct 2019)
Funeral Director
In loving memory of Leslie Plater who sadly passed away on 17th October 2019, aged 53 years old.
No-one ever called him Leslie though, he always introduced himself by his initials, so to everyone who knew him he was always Lep.
A very colourful character always with stories to share - whether that be how to make the cocktail Arfle Barfle Gloop, which was invented during his time at Brighton University, or how to set the perfect Alcoholic Jelly, no-one who ever met Lep and was able to forget him.
The impression I think most people would remember him for was his obsession with the colour blue. He would go out of his way for the colour, be that a new PC, a cocktail or a new toaster - practically everything he owned was a shade of blue. Perhaps this started from his involvement with the Young Conservatives whilst at university, but he took this theme and RAN with it wholeheartedly and unashamedly.
Many of us who knew him met Lep on an online text based adventure game in the mid 90's that still runs to this day, creating a network of friends that is still strong even though many of us are now distant from each other (although there was more than one marriage too!).
It was because of the friends made in this network that Lep decided to move to Nottingham from where he lived in Brighton at the time and settled down in a house in Beeston and a computer service job that suited him perfectly, where he remained contentedly until his passing.
One of the best parts of Lep's character was that he could (and very often did) hold very different views from you (mostly political) and would love debating these, but this never ever came in the way of your friendship - a quality lacking in many people in this age.
His most amusing contrary view was that cheese is evil ("It's a congealed lump of fat, how can you like that?"), although one thing he could never argue with was his inability to put his keys down somewhere and remember where they were - people got into a habit of noting their location so he could be informed when he later needed them.
Finally, not many people who met Lep ever got away without hearing the series of biscuit jokes he was so fond of, so for old times' sake:
There were these two biscuits walking down the road when one biscuit turns to the other biscuit and says:
"Hay mate!" 'cos he's a northerner sorta biscuit y'see, "where do you live?"
The other biscuit turns to the first biscuit and replies:
"I'm not going to tell you that, you might come round and steal my washing!"
A unique joke from a very unique person.
Lep, you will be missed, rest in peace my friend.
-Chris Dakin (April 2020)
Some links to help people remember, mostly from the late 90's, early 2000's
Cocktails, including the often mentioned ABG: http://www.lep.mistral.co.uk/cocktails/cocktails.htm
The biscuit jokes: http://www.lep.mistral.co.uk/biscuits/biscuit.htm
Photos from the online game Nanvaent that a lot of us knew him from:
http://www.lep.mistral.co.uk/piccies/piccies.htm
https://nanvaent.org/parties/
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