“A prickly, feisty person and a fine journalist who was never afraid to speak truth to power and call things as she saw them.” Peer praise doesn’t get much better as journalists remember a special writer. It’s “Seven Days” with IAN MEIKLE. JOURNALIST Rosslyn Beeby’s body was formally identified at the Phillip mortuary this past week. It was a lonely, Eleanor Rigby moment. Ian Meikle. The reclusive former reporter, ill with gastric flu, had fallen and died suddenly and alone at her riverside Queanbeyan home. Death from “unknown natural causes”, the coroner’s certificate plaintively records. Neighbours noticed she hadn’t been seen and one of her cats was pacing in agitation. They called the police who broke in and found her. She’d been dead for anywhere up to a week.