First day in the new job..
So the GFG has a CEO. Who’d have thought it! With thanks to the lovely Barbara Chalmers at Final Fling for making the announcement today – see blogpost here. Looking forward to good times at GFG Towers as we continue celebrating the best in funeralworld while keeping a watchful eye out for the less than worthy. Onwards […]
Last week’s news
We’ve scoured the known universe for the latest from Funeralworld and do you know, we found nothing worth drawing your attention to. Nothing. Have a great week (nonetheless).
Yesterday…
Did you know that the term coffin lid applies to a type of surfboard? http://bit.ly/1p2stFW A much needed new funeral home was opened in Sutton Coldfield by local MP Andrew ‘The Pleb’ Mitchell and NFFD MD William ‘Safe Hands’ Eccleston. The new business has adopted the strapline “here to care for you and your loved ones […]
Yesterday’s news
Iraqi gravediggers are counting their blessings as civil war rages. One said: “To be honest about it, it makes us happy to do this job. We make a lot of money.” Suicide bombers are especially good for business. Another undertaker said “Many are incomplete. It depends what the family find. Sometimes we get just a leg […]
Who cares what you think?
I was rung up last year by a newbie undertaker who wanted the GFG to endorse his business. He had opened up in a small market town which already has a respected and established undertaker. Was he aiming to do anything different? No. Had he worked out the size of the market? No. It wouldn’t […]
Something old, something news
In Wales a car crashed into a funeral procession killing the horse that was pulling the hearse – http://bit.ly/1QHl2Av The CDAS newsletter is out, full of good things. If you’re not already a subscriber, sign up – http://bit.ly/1LO2aZf Dead women are being dug up in China to be corpse brides for dead bachelors – http://bit.ly/1oHItNv This inspired London […]
Goings on in the death zone
Some of the stories in the news last week. The Daily Telegraph took consumer journalism to an all-time low here A peek inside Melbourne’s oldest funeral home here Find out about the excellent Free Funeral Services Society in Burma here. Moving video here. Residents of Lagos were inconvenienced by a corpse at their bus stop – […]
Some of the stories you missed
Here are some the news stories you may have inadvertently missed in the last week. In India, a man killed his girlfriend three days before his wedding (to someone else). Such was the stench of her decomposing body, he used 70 cans of perfume to disguise the smell. He was arrested on his honeymoon – […]
The good meeting place
Posted by our religious correspondent Richard Rawlinson Where would we be without our Rover’s Return or Central Perk? The Corrie pub and Friends café are what sociologist Ray Oldenburg calls a ‘third place’ in his book, The Great Good Place. They’re neither home nor work, but accessible, accommodating and inclusive neutral ground where we can go […]
An Irish Funeral in Birmingham
Posted by David Hall With Vintage Lorry Funerals website displaying David Hall’s contact details, some Families seek to book the 1950 Leyland Beaver directly to avoid the margin that some Funeral Directors seek to impose. David’s mobile is always switched on, apart from when he is involved with a funeral, when the silent mode is […]
