If music be the food of grief

I’m doing a funeral next Monday. I didn’t know one of the songs they want, so I when I got back from seeing them I called up my faithful friend Spotify and played it through to get acquainted. And to get the running time, of course. As the song began to play, the written words […]

Give me champagne!

William Price on his deathbed Good piece here on William Price, the father of cremation. If ever there was a more colourful life… The title of this post quotes his last words