Are you a charitable body?
Posted by Ken West Have you thought about the scrap metal value of your body? It began with metal hip joints but as we live longer and spend more time falling over and head butting the skirting boards, metal bone splints now outweigh the hips. Body piercing has added tongue studs and navel rings, not to […]
A tragic and terrible miscarriage of justice?
Click the pic to make it bigger. Story reported in the same paper we contacted when the Southend One opened the Mary Mayer Funeral Home after escaping from Burnley. We told them to investigate and get rid of him. Isn’t that what newspapers are for? So far, no VO has arrived for the GFG […]
Loading in the Dark at Radcliffe-on-Trent
Posted by David Hall David Hall, of Vintage Lorry Funerals, took a call on a November Saturday morning for a funeral in Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire. Cognisant of the excellent service he has received over the years from County Truck Services on Colwick Industrial Estate, David initially thought about parking the 1950 Leyland Beaver undercover at this location. […]
Poem
Teenage Room by Paul Wooldridge My mother speaks in detail, I avoid her tired gaze and stare at local headlines, folded double down the page. She talks of calls and records, staying strong and on the go. I know I should be helping, be of use, keep up the show. I only want to slope […]
Lifting the spirits
Posted by Kitty Perry When I was a child in the 60s, not a lot happened on 31st October. Casting my mind back and thinking really hard, the only thing I can remember doing is bobbing for apples. Which I did once at a friend’s birthday party. Come to think of it, I’m not even […]
Death Poets Society
Love and Loss: Poetry at funerals and in bereavement Sunday 2nd Nov, 8pm North London Tavern, Kilburn High Road Tickets £8 through kilburnliteraryfestival.co.uk and on the door Bereavement can lead people to seek solace in poetry for the first time, or indeed, to express themselves by writing their own poetry for the first time. Discussing […]
Forget Oxo ad tributes – follow Lynda’s example
Guest post by Wendy Coulton Lynda Bellingham’s refreshing openness and honesty about living and dying with cancer has touched many lives but the enduring legacy will be if people take responsibility for their end of life matters. There have been calls for the Oxo advert to be broadcast this Christmas by way of a tribute to […]
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Are you a Funeral Director or a Fleet Manager?
Guest post by James Hardcastle You cannot be both and nor should you have to be. Communities look to you, as a trusted funeral director, to be supporting them in their time of need whilst planning the unique good-bye for their loved one and not fretting about another problem with your fleet. Do the BBC run […]
Tradition is a guide, not a jailer
When Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen was at large on tv’s Changing Rooms, it was not unusual for people to weep when they saw what he’d done to their living room and, through their tears, defiantly declare that, first chance they got, they were going go out and buy 5 litres of brilliant white. Not all, mind. […]
