We’re going where the sun shines brightly
I finally got to the bottom of it. The Isle of Portland is an area of severe signal deprivation. The Vodafone man confessed this shamefacedly when I demanded to know why his sainted dongle denied me the gift of utterance. “You’re in a 2G area,” he mumbled, “you need 3G at least for the internet.” […]
Is he?
No, I’m pleased to tell you. Reports are exaggerated. I remain sentient, mostly. Thank you, all those of you who have emailed to express concern. You’ve added to my guilt, but I am very touched. I’ve been busy – busy with stuff and busy thinking. It’s the thinking that’s kept me away from the blog. […]
Go, Bede!
The present life of man, O king, seems to me like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the hall wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in […]
What is a funeral for?
Three views here about what a funeral is for by Christian holy people in response to this article here. Something that allows space for people of all faiths and none to recognise that our lives are about more than the acquisition of wealth and bigger than the sometimes compartmentalised lives we live … until we […]
Who’s the fastest of them all?
Ray Bidiss’s trike hearse world speed record got the newswires humming. When I heard it I paused and pondered. I think I said ooh. Maybe you did, too. Didn’t hear about it? Read about it here. Take nothing away from Ray, he blitzed down Elvington airfield at 114.1 mph with a coffin on board. But […]
Much I do…
Happy Royal Wedding, everyone! The Board of the GFG is fleeing from it to a developing country (not enough gun carriages drawn by sailors to keep us here). Even the interns have been given little flags to wag and the weekend off, bless their little trustafarian hearts. We shall be back after the consummation.
Meeting his Macca
Following the story of the tea-drinking, cake-eating undertakers which caused such ire a few days ago (read it here), here’s a US undertaker up to much of the same , if in a far more downmarket way. Story here.
What are you worth dead?
The Cadaver Calculator – Find out how much your body is worth.Created by OnePlusYou – Free Online Dating If your curiosity is in idle mode, this being holiday time, you may be wondering what your dead body’s worth to those who would like to recycle its bits and pieces. Make your way over to the […]
Blog off!
This blog is rolling up its trousers, fashioning a newspaper hat and taking itself off to the seaside for a week. I shall try to do emails and stuff but I’ll be on a dongle and it’s a painfully slow connection on the island of dreams — they don’t want our chatter to interfere with […]
It got made!
Movie synopsis: The Funeral Director (2009) So far as I can find out, it never got distributed. “A broken-hearted man, Kevin, finds company in a pet cricket. After ditching a lucrative advertising job, he signs on as an apprentice in a funeral home and finds himself not only working for a sexually starved pre-menopausal funeral […]
