The GFG Blog
2010May
Catastrophe!
Charles
May
14
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Easier on the eye than a pic of me Here at GFG HQ we are in turmoil. Our computer crashed yesterday and, to cut a long story short, some hands were lost and we have a new operating system to get used to. Worst of everything, I have lost my
Peaceful Pillow
Charles
May
13
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Why a pillow, I wonder? Especially a pillow that looks nothing like a pillow. I’m not at all sure that the feeding-duck look as it goes down is a good look. If you turn down the music this gets dull. These guys have missed a trick, leaving a gap in
Funeralcare screwupdate, with added overpricing
Charles
May
12
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It is with a heavy-hearted sense of duty that I record this beastly and deplorable allegation against Co-operative Funeralcare. You can find the full version at MoneySavingExpert.com. Don’t use co-operative funeralcare directors they are disgusting …They failed to complete the legal documents correctly they put the wrong funeral date on
A shroud from Bellacouche
Charles
May
11
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The body of Yuli Somme’s mother is borne away for burial in a Devon field, February, 2010. The shroud was made by Yuli. You can have one, too. Visit her website. A beautiful, beautiful photo.
Blanche’s funeral on Corrie yesterday
Charles
May
11
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Don’t cry for me, Libitina
Charles
May
11
3 comments
I’m not ashamed to admit it (I’ve never mistaken myself for someone with a brain), I’d never heard of Libitina til this morning. You? Libitina. The Roman goddess of death, corpses and funerals. Gave her name to Roman undertakers: libitinii. She was, if I may quote from m’learned friend Wikipedia,
Lonely funerals
Charles
May
10
2 comments
A beautiful story for you today – one you’ll have to listen to. It’s a BBC World Service programme about an Amsterdam civil servant, Ger ‘Gerry’ Frits, whose job it was, til his retirement, to arrange and hold funerals for people, all kinds of people, who have nobody. “You must
Who cares?
Charles
May
07
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A while back, Claire Callender talked about what it’s like, as an undertaker, to ‘remove’ (industry term) a dead body from a care home. It’s something I talked about a lot yesterday with a friend who has an especially beautiful mind. It’s something he frets about, often talks about, something
Facing the music
Charles
May
07
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Another gangster funeral today. No apologies for this. Gangster funerals are such ticklish affairs: it’s so difficult to gild a gangster when he’s dead. Eamonn Dunne, special subject drugs, responsible for the murders of at least a dozen people including some of his own associates, was blown away while drinking
Death masks 2
Charles
May
06
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Here’s the story condensed from a Guardian report, 27 September ’07: John Joe “Ash” Amador, a 30-year-old American, was executed for the 1994 murder of a San Antonio taxi driver. He went to his death, still protesting his innocence, with an armful of lethal sodium pentathol and the words, “God
