Neophyte said:

Bubblecar said:

Morning. Heading for 23 here on what should be a day of pleasant weather. I didn’t get enough sleep so will be returning to bed after breakfast.

Uncle Andrij’s funeral was a bit sad but that’s funerals for you. Living to 100, he didn’t have many surviving friends and relatives so only 10 people attended, but the Australian branch of the family will all get to see it as it’ll be online for some weeks.

Cousin Andrew gave a decent potted history of his life in a fair eulogy. A priest who’d never met Andrij was master of ceremonies so there was quite a bit of religious mumbo-jumbo and a badly sung hymn.

Could be worse – just saw this in the local births/deaths notices page…

“Sorry we are not able to attend in person, we all had so many memories we would have loved to share at the service. Unfortunately there was a lack of communication between siblings and we were not notified.”

for a small fee I will turn up to anyone’s funeral dressed in a dark suit, weeping quietly, stand at the back, speak to noone, then leave. For additional costs I can include the crying over the coffin package, the screaming “you bastard!” at the end of the service package, or the pretend to talk into an earpiece package.