Don’t forget that you are you
“One of the best pieces of advice I had came from a friend whose husband died suddenly… “Don’t forget that you are you,” she said cryptically. How right she was. She meant that I should not allow myself to be changed by my experience of grief.” Anne Penketh here
God can heal
From this morning’s Times: A Christian group is to be allowed to claim “God can heal” after an Advertising Standards Authority ruling. Healing on the Streets, based in Wiltshire, can use the phrase only on its website, which the authority has said is outside its jurisdiction and not in printed material. Outside its jurisdiction?? Bafflement […]
Haycombe gets cross
The argy-bargy at Haycombe crematorium, Bath, has raged over an important issue, namely, whether or not a building created and maintained by all taxpayers should, or should not, be faith-neutralThe matter of the row was the cross etched into the window (above) which the council proposed to do away with in its recent renovation of […]
Music
“For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad of tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves … I would like to hold buy cialis online 1 […]
ASA adjudication on Greenfield Creations
Advertising Standards Authority Adjudication on Greenfield Creations Ltd Greenfield Creations Ltd Chapel Road Ridgewell Essex CO9 4RU Date: 13 June 2012 Media: Internet (on own site) Sector: Business Number of complaints: 1 Complaint Ref: A12-191396 Background Summary of Council decision: Two issues were investigated of which both were Upheld. Ad Claims on www.GreenfieldCreationsCoffins.co.uk, stated “The […]
Our Glorious Dead
Were you intrigued by the illustration on the previous post of the Grammofonus Orchestra? If you were, you might have done some googling. If you were too idle or too busy, we’d like to show you what you would have found. We can’t find any information about Grammofonus except for a website here and some […]
Quote of the day
“When a very loved friend dies they make a gift of their love of life to you in that it’s now your responsibility to love life as much as they did.” Martin Amis on the death of his lifelong friend Christopher Hitchens
Sign of the times
“A survey last week listed the 50 indicators that you have become a fully fledged adult, which include being able to bleed a radiator, washing up immediately after eating, and carrying spare shopping bags “just in case”. “I’ve already failed on quite a few – such as owning “best towels” and “filing post” – but […]
Do women write better about death than men?
At the Telegraph Hay Festival last weekend, Martin Amis opined that women write better about sex than men. They do so, he said, with greater sincerity. Men get carried away showing off their writerly potency. This set me wondering whether female celebrants write better, more emotionally articulate funerals than men. Amis went on to say: […]
Undertaking in China
“Traditionally, older folks would say this profession is only for those people who are not married, have no children, and have no choice.” Source
