Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Friday 14th August, 2015

Funerals are difficult events and you can end up blethering inanely caught up in all the tension and emotion of the occasion.  But I thought I was on safe ground as I chatted with Hen.  She had come with us to a service on Wednesday to commemorate the life of my brother’s father in law who had died after a long illness.  I can’t quite recall what I was talking to her about outside Salisbury Crematorium on a warm, sultry afternoon.  It might have been a bit mundane I suppose. Perhaps the options for the route back to Suffolk.  M3 or M4, round the M25 and up the M11; that sort of thing.  But it really didn’t deserve this cruel put down in front of the assembled company of fellow mourners:

 

“Dave….I can feel my eyes closing a wee bit and if you carry on like this it could get dangerous….I’m standing up you know”.

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