The GFG Blog
2014Dec
We rise again!
Charles
Dec
15
5 comments
Sorry if you missed us. Something to do with hostile action by corporate enemies of the GFG the server. A huge thank you to Ian ‘Harry’ Harris at Carronmedia for his delicate touch with a big spanner and cold chisel. There was an uncomfortable period when we thought there
What is an undertaker for, really?
Charles
Dec
12
9 comments
“Most people in the funeral industry are servants by nature, but it’s time that we took that servant nature and put it to better use by aiding you in the process of caring for your dead. Instead of doing it ourselves, we now need to be teachers, and not
Intellectual poverty
Charles
Dec
10
17 comments
“People are also turning to alternatives to the traditional funeral. Some are holding do-it-yourself funerals, and even having to bury relatives in their back garden. A number of companies are offering cut-price funerals, including “direct” cremations that have no formal service attached to them.” That was Emma Lewell-Buck MP
Should he or shouldn’t he?
Charles
Dec
08
No Comments
Jon Underwood at Death Café wants to open a permanent, community owned, not for profit Death Café in London. He says: “Until now, all of our Death Cafes have been pop-up events in local homes or venues. This project is to set up ‘Death Cafe London’, a coffee
The product that has turned every sadness into a sales-op and every funeral into a retail event?
Charles
Dec
04
23 comments
“The ‘buy now, die later’ brand of package deal has meant a lost connection between the sale of funerals and the delivery of them, and with it the loss of face-to-face accountability between buyer and seller that used to provide reliable consumer protection. Now the recipient of the services
The PM who was cremated before his funeral
Charles
Dec
02
No Comments
Posted by Richard Rawlinson Neville Chamberlain (above) died from cancer on 9 November 1940, just six months after he resigned as Prime Minister. Winston Churchill, his successor, paid tribute to him on 12 November despite the two men having disagreed over the ‘appeasement’ of Hitler: ‘Whatever else history may
Gridlocked in Ross-on-Wye four days before Christmas
Charles
Dec
01
4 comments
Guest post by David Hall Christmas is an important time of the year for Vintage Lorry Funerals as all of the 450 Funeral Directors, who display pictures of the 1950 Leyland Beaver, receive a Christmas Card in the second week of December. The process starts in July when David
2014Nov
Revealed: the one and only fix for funeral poverty
Charles
Nov
24
19 comments
The problem: The circumstances of the death do not admit of any effective competition or precedent examination of the charges of different undertakers, or any comparison and consideration of their supplies. There is not time to change them for others that are less expensive, and more in conformity
All fine by who?
Charles
Nov
20
35 comments
Here’s something that’s been bobbling in my mind for ages. Finally, spurred by a newspaper story announcing that Grimbsy crematorium is going to fine funeral directors £159 if a service overruns, I sprang into action. I wrote to the crematorium manager: I see that NE Lincs Council has announced
