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You may have noticed that we’re trying to calm the blog down a bit. The daily magazine format of up to five or so posts daily is more, we reckon, than you want or can cope with. (Today was a throwback day.) We recognise that there are many sources, now, from which you can gather […]
Red River Valley
From this valley they say you are going We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile For they say you are taking the sunshine That has brightened our pathways awhile CHORUS: Come and sit by my side, if you love me Do not hasten to bid me adieu Just remember the Red River Valley […]
Do the math
Add all these up. What do you get? Phosphate 47.5% Calcium 25.3% Sulfate 11.00% Potassium 3.69% Sodium 1.12% Chloride 1.00% Silica 0.9% Aluminum Oxide 0.72% Magnesium 0.418% Iron Oxide 0.118% Zinc 0.0342% Titanium Oxide 0.0260% Barium 0.0066% Antimony 0.0035% Chromium 0.0018% Copper 0.0017% Manganese 0.0013% Lead 0.0008% Tin 0.0005% Vanadium 0.0002% Beryllium <0.0001% Mercury <0.00001% […]
Remains to be seen
So, a bad week, then, for dead heads of state. Hugo Chavez can’t after all be embalmed ‘like Lenin’. By the time the experts got there it was too late for the disembowelling and the deep marinade which would have made him, in death, the centre of a cult and an object of pilgrimage – […]
Sit-up-straight or laid back?
Pictured above, the arranging room at Holmes and Family before and after its makeover. The GFG strongly encouraged this makeover. We acknowledge that our point of view is not shared by everyone, to the point that we’re not so sure, now, either. The role of the funeral arranger is to be both 1) an […]
Is Dignity overvalued, over-leveraged and operationally insecure?
A couple of copies of the Investors Intelligence have come to our attention. In them, financial analyst Aubrey Brocklebank entertains doubts about the viability of Dignity plc. He expresses himself very technically, so some of his argument and most of the graphs go somewhat over the heads of Team GFG. We’d be interested to know […]
Is it politic to target terror of death?
According to the BBC, the UK is falling off the pace in the international race to live forever. There may be a measure of national shame here. In a table of 18 countries we stand at #11 behind Greece. Spain is top. Spaniards enjoy an average of 70.9 years of healthy life. Finland is bottom. Finns […]
When Robert was murdered
Posted by Richard Rawlinson There must be something in the air as I’m being uncharacteristically nostalgic about people I’ve known who have died. An early encounter was at prep school, aged 10. My heart sank when my best friend didn’t turn up at the beginning of term, and it wasn’t until assembly the next day that […]
Bournemouth To Host Awards Ceremony For The Funeral Industry
Press Release 11 March 2013 Bournemouth To Host Awards Ceremony For The Funeral Industry Nominations have opened for the second Good Funeral Awards, which will be awarded on 7 September at a glittering ceremony in Bournemouth. The awards recognise outstanding service to the bereaved. There are 13 categories including most promising new funeral director, […]
A glass of Grim Reaper?
Posted by Vale The Urban Dictionary (strapline: The Dictionary you wrote) is great place for the gross, the ghastly and the newly minted. It’s for people who speak ‘urban’ and the definitions reflect their preferences and predilections. For example there is no definition of the word morning because: the type of people who speak ‘urban’ […]
