Showing posts with label funeral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label funeral. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Conversation at a Funeral

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On arriving from afar… Way back when... Patrick : I drove past our first house on Park Road. Charles : How does it look now? Patrick : Much ...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

R.I.P.

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Another funeral… Elizabeth : There was Jack’s funeral last week and now there’s Janet’s tomorrow. Robert : And then Tom is fading fast so hi...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

The night before interment

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Where to leave the box… Sarah : You can’t leave your mother’s ashes in the car overnight. Antonio : Nobody’s going to steal ashes. Sarah : S...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Government order: No travel to funerals allowed

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Cousins discuss a passing by text messages… Adelle : So we can only farewell her by social media. Molly : The messages coming in are sympath...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Uncollected Ashes

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Ambiguity about ashes... Potomnik : I’ll pick up the urn for Walter Wiczelaw tomorrow. Tòtka : Which Walter is that? Walter K. or Walter P? ...
Monday, October 12, 2020

A felicitous funeral

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A departure… Gilbert : We gave him a good send-off. Claire : Yeah. All the right people came: family, colleagues, community. Gilbert : Coope...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Après funeral of a farmer

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A comparison… . Doug: Two funerals in a week! . Diana: Both very different. One of a national celebrity, a writer, the other of a f...