Clergy: watch out for the mystery mourner!
From yesterday’s Independent: The Church of England is asking its followers to give feedback on funerals and christenings in a drive to make services more popular. The Archbishop’s Council has commissioned independent researchers to delve into how the Church ministers to its faithful at the key moments of birth and death. The research is partially […]
Singer-songwriter-undertaker
A MUSIC-loving funeral director could soon be playing a key role in a national songwriting competition. Distinguished figures like Sir Terry Wogan, ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris and Johnnie Walker may be casting a critical ear over a song penned for charity by Neil Brunton – if he can secure enough online votes. Neil’s song, ‘Jacob Street’, […]
Butcher turned undertaker
Meet Nigel ‘The Undertaker’ Heydon, master-dartist, the one the big boys dread meeting in the first round. Why ‘Undertaker’? Because when he’s not at the oche he’s, yes, out burying the dead. He was formerly known as ‘The Butcher’ because before he became an undertaker he was, you guessed it, a butcher. Clearly it would […]
Celebration of life
Crowds mourning the death of Kim Jong Il in North Korea this morning. According to the Korean Central News Agency: People from all walks of life are visiting statues of President Kim Il Sung in different parts of Pyongyang including Kim Il Sung University to express their greatest sorrow over the demise of Kim Jong […]
Quote of the day
“I was just thinking about my funeral and stuff a couple days ago and thinking who would be at the funeral. People who I want to be in the funeral? I wanna have world leaders that were, like, affected, that said, you know, ‘Kanye gave me my shot here.’” Kanye West
Dilemma of the Day
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Dear Abby: “Saddened in New Jersey” (Oct. 2) complained that her sister’s 4-year-old daughter put stickers on the hands and face of her deceased grandmother during her wake. Find out what Abby said next here.
Quote of the day
“But our machines have now been running 70 or 80 years, and we must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way; and however we may tinker them up for a while, all will at length surcease motion.” Thomas Jefferson, 1814
Touchy-feely felt
How’s it going with the Christmas shopping? Look, with time running out, it’s time to get going. Here at the GFG-Batesville Tower we like to support our own — the people who share our values. There are precious few of these in the high street for, verily, they are a precious few. One of the […]
Quote of the day
“I started taking better care of myself once I learned how expensive funerals are.” Source
Sidecar conversion
The Revd Paul Sinclair, proprietor of Motorcycle Funerals, occupies, in the unanimous opinion of all who toil round the clock here at the GFG-Batesville Tower, the status of national treasure. He’s a thoroughly good egg, a lovely man. At weekends, when crem chimneys grow cold, Paul and his wife Marian like to travel the country […]
