After, that is, she has played our song - 'we have all the time in the world'
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englishangel wrote:Incidentally a cardboard coffin cannot be cremated, something to do with the chemicals needed to make it firm enough to carry. Wicker, reed and bamboo are nice alternatives. This was Wendy Richard's funeral
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/573975-star ... ds-funeral
My mother had a similar coffin and as it was spring there were posies of primroses tucked in around the fastenings.
Angela Woodford wrote:My father was an organist, who worked at the Putney Vale Crematorium. It always upset me that grieving relatives, convinced that the body of their loved one, would think that as the body slid into those curtains would be cremated on the spot.... in fact they would join a queue to be cremated at some time in the future.
And maybe the expensive coffin would be removed for resale after dark.
That, and the slightly posher "Mrs **** will receive visitors on Tuesday 14th from ... to....." were pretty standard in England - not just in respect of wakes / funerals but also normal visits.NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote: On the Irish Radio, there are announcements, such as --- "Mrs ***** will be "At Home" on Tuesday 14th from 6pm"
I think this is a lovely way to announce the "Wake"
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