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. […]
The man from the Pru
Guest post by Quokkagirl When I was no’but a girl, I used to like Friday evenings…..because the man from the Pru used to call. I say the Pru but it could have been any insurance company. I don’t recall the specifics, but it was an insurance man. This was an exciting event because in his […]
Poem
Widow’s Villanelle by Paul Wooldridge Beneath the darkened upper floors you smile and wave, left on your own, with stillness waiting through each door. Redundant now, your faithful chores, that once supported fragile bone beneath the darkened upper floors. That one is left is nature’s flaw. The tiring days and nights alone with […]
Adwords for Funeral Directors
Guest post by Mark Sharron For the second part of this guest post series on SEO for Funeral Directors I’m going to talk about Google Adwords. Adwords is a Google’s Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising system. Adwords went live in early 2000 and has helped tens of thousands of businesses attract new clients. The system […]
Upcoming events
In a host of different venues in Oxford and Oxfordshire over a span of four weeks we offer you a smorgasbord of original, enjoyable and challenging experiences. Over 40 events and nearly 100 participants http://www.kickingthebucket.co.uk/ http://www.changingchelmsford.org/ http://www.livinganddying.co.uk/
Serving gay and black communities
Guest post by Richard Rawlinson Recent talk about preferences for traditional or alternative funeral services was pretty much silenced by the word ‘choice’. In other words, whether it’s a requiem mass preceded by a Victorian-lite cortege or a liturgy-free, no-dress-code send-off in a field, give the punters what they want. This libertarian strain of relativism has […]
Hearse and one?
Guest post by David Holmes As the global recession took hold in 2008, families arranging funerals started cutting back on cost. First to face the chop (forgive the pun) was the lovely black limousine. And why not, they are but frippery, very non-essential, so why pay around £200 to hire one when you can easily do […]
