UK Amazon Kindle Forum discussion
Blog Roll
>
Ranting about nothing very interesting.
How not to register a death ... ;-) Jeez I’m a clutz! Enjoy.https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/06/29/nu...
It's another blog that everybody should ready because it's something everybody has to do if they live long enough
Jim wrote: "It's another blog that everybody should ready because it's something everybody has to do if they live long enough"Although the rules may well have changed by the time any of my readers need the info. I know what you mean though, there's so much admin.
Oh yes, the details will probably constantly differ. But a good undertaker will be able to help you through the maze. What will make it tricky is where the undertaker is working at the perimeter of their area, or in a local authority area they don't have a lot to do with
Jim wrote: "Oh yes, the details will probably constantly differ. But a good undertaker will be able to help you through the maze. What will make it tricky is where the undertaker is working at the perimeter of..."My friend whose husband died of dementia a couple of weeks after Dad clearly had a very much harder time with the undertakers than I did. Makes me realise how lucky I was with our lot, they were really superb.
It is well worth asking about some time before you need them. It isn't something that occurs to people but it is importantChurchwardens and Clergy deal with them a lot so might be able to give tips on general efficiency
But ideally ask somebody who's used the services of an undertaker in the last year or so
A good one makes things so much easier
Jim wrote: "It is well worth asking about some time before you need them. It isn't something that occurs to people but it is importantChurchwardens and Clergy deal with them a lot so might be able to give ti..."
The folks we used have been undertakers in Steyning for about 180 years. They’re lovely and as Dad was church warden for a fair while, the older ones knew him well so I think they were already predisposed to give him a good send off. They were brilliant about stuff like gauging what tone to set with each of us and when. It is a calling, perhaps, rather than something you can just do.
Cheers
MTM
M.T. wrote: "Makes me realise how lucky I was with our lot, they were really superb...."You deserved something easy, and your dad would have been pleased.
M.T. wrote: "It is a calling, perhaps, rather than something you can just do...."Yes I think you're right with this. It's surprising how many of them are family businesses with the business going down the family through the generations
Alicia wrote: "M.T. wrote: "Makes me realise how lucky I was with our lot, they were really superb...."You deserved something easy, and your dad would have been pleased."
Yes, I agree you deserve something being made easy for you.
Thanks everyone. This week, I am mostly apoplectic with rage! https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/07/06/an...
This is very definitely rant mode on.
M.T. wrote: "Thanks everyone. This week, I am mostly apoplectic with rage! https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/07/06/an...
This is very definitely rant mode on."
rightfully so
Thanks, yeh, politics really gets on my tits at the moment! That’s why this week’s post is about inspection covers ... and OCD.https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/07/13/an...
Jim wrote: "good one :-)":-) thanks I wanted to do something a little different!
A quick one about grief and how it’s affecting McMini and I. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/07/20/gr...
Jim wrote: "and a good one"yeh, I have one coming up about demonising groups of people and how it’s easier to understand your own prejudices when you’ve been on the end of other people’s. If I can get that done next week, it’ll be ready to go when I’m not able to get to t’interweb the following week. I have yours for next week.
Cheers
MTM
Yeh, I like a bit of Tallis, I’ll have to check I have downloaded everything you’ve published before I go on holiday next week. If I’m not careful, I miss things.
You cannot be too careful, if the next Tallis story isn't downloaded at exactly the right time, the sun will stop in its tracks, civilisation as we know it will crumble around us, and in all probability, you'll stub your toe on a chair leg walking through the house in the dark :-)
Ouch! So thats whats happened! Civilisation has been crumbling for a while already.... and global warming will probably do for the sun. And now I know why my toe is throbbing.
Gingerlily - The Full Wild wrote: "Ouch! So thats whats happened! Civilisation has been crumbling for a while already.... and global warming will probably do for the sun. And now I know why my toe is throbbing."so apparently it's all your fault then!
Enjoying the latest Tallis books Jim :-)
Glad about that :-)Packed full of fabulous sales techniques to help you become a best selling writer :-)
Mwaaaarhgaarh! They are both good stuff. I’m really enjoying them.This week, I’m talking about my own stuff. Although be warned, this doesn’t go live until around 1 o’clock. ;-)
http://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/08/03/goo...
This week, I am mostly talking about grief. Not very exciting, I know but here it is.https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/08/10/gr...
worth saying whether it's exciting or not :-)
:-) Thanks. I hope these things help. People say they do so I need to get going on a dementia related book I think. Non fiction! Yikes.Cheers
MTM
M.T. wrote: ":-) Thanks. I hope these things help. People say they do so I need to get going on a dementia related book I think. "Something about advance warnings for family and friends - you have a lot of the material already from your posts.
Keep it personal, and you don't have to do a lot of research.
Alicia wrote: "M.T. wrote: ":-) Thanks. I hope these things help. People say they do so I need to get going on a dementia related book I think. "Something about advance warnings for family and friends - you hav..."
Yeh, that’s the thing, I do want to avoid research as much as possible. It needs to be about my experience and what I’ve learned. Although I guess some research would be useful.
Cheers
MTM
Oh, I almost forgot. I’ve done another post this week!https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/08/17/ra...
Enjoy.
I thought of you yesterday when the neurologist said I had cognitive fatigue, it would certainly fit for you with everything you've had to deal with, would be worth looking it up.
This week I have been mostly disappearing up my own arse ... and losing the cat! https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/08/31/gone/
Cat won't tell you so, but is VERY happy to have been found.
He definitely was. He has been cosying up and purring a lot since!This week I didn't have time for a proper post, so I've posted the Eulogy from Dad's funeral, because it's basically just a loosely strung together series of anecdotes about him, and him being the man he was, that means most of them are funny.
https://wp.me/pJIxY-14V
It's a beautiful, heart-felt eulogy. I misted up several times, and had a good laugh or two.
Glad it went down well folks! ;-) It was definitely heartfelt!
I imagine they discovered it fairly soon...
Apparently a gold toilet has disappeared from a British museum where it was on loan. It was a working toilet, hooked up to the plumbing, and things got water-damaged when it was removed.You can't make these things up.
Alicia wrote: "Apparently a gold toilet has disappeared from a British museum ..."Actually it was a stately home, Blenheim Palace, home to the Duke of Marlborough. As a consequence of an ancestor being a successful general rather more than 300 years ago, he doesn't have to work for a living.
Do you think that writing a book called "The Golden Toilet" might set one on the path to a Nobel Prize for Literature?
apparently it was an art installationTo quote from the guardian
The golden lavatory, named America, drew large crowds when it was exhibited in New York. It had been installed in a wood-panelled chamber opposite the room where Churchill was born.
Blenheim palace is the ancestral seat of the Duke of Marlborough.
Ahead of the toilet’s installation, the duke’s half-brother, Edward Spencer-Churchill, founder of the Blenheim Art Foundation, said last month the lavatory wouldn’t be “the easiest thing to nick”.
“Firstly, it’s plumbed in and secondly, a potential thief will have no idea who last used the toilet or what they ate,” he told the Times. “So no, I don’t plan to be guarding it.”
The palace’s chief executive, Dominic Hare, urged anyone with any information about the theft to contact police.
“Following the Thames Valley police statement we can confirm ‘America’, the art piece by Maurizio Cattelan, has been stolen in the early hours of this morning,” he said.
“We are saddened by this extraordinary event, but also relieved no one was hurt. We are very grateful to our staff and to Thames Valley police for their rapid and brave reactions.
“We knew there was huge interest in the Maurizio Cattelan contemporary art exhibition, with many set to come and enjoy the installations. It’s therefore a great shame an item so precious has been taken, but we still have so many fascinating treasures in the palace and the remaining items of the exhibition to share.”
UK Amazon Kindle Forum
Books mentioned in this topic
Ulysses (other topics)Ulysses (other topics)
The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr (other topics)
Steady Past Your Granny's (other topics)
Steady Past Your Granny's (other topics)
More...
Yeh, the emails I’m getting about Dad from his ex pupils and stuff ... it’s amazing, and truly humbling. I definitely feel vindicated in loving him so much, I just hadn’t realised how many other people did! It’s a good feeling isn’t it. Yours do sound very much like mine from what you’ve said about them.
Cheers
MTM