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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:37 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:41 pm
Jesus I have just looked at the TV schedule. It's worse than the Uzbek bike parade.
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:44 pm
Idea for the funeral?The Real Ravenhurst wrote: ↑3 years agoJesus I have just looked at the TV schedule. It's worse than the Uzbek bike parade.
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:47 pm
I must confess that I only really watch the early rounds, when contestants serve their own ideas about cooking (and at least one always reveals that they can't actually, you know, cook). Once they start doing the poncey restaurant stuff I rather lose interest.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:58 pm
Some of you may recall that I took a funeral qualification and take a smattering of funerals. As a result I am in two different whatsapp groups of fellow funeral celebrants or funeral directors. They both exploded into life at 3pm today with people talking about just one thing: how you safely carry a coffin up a flight of steps. 
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2021 6:26 pm
There's a gruesomely funny lesson in how not to handle a coffin in one of my favourite films - Brazil.JohnToo wrote: ↑3 years agoSome of you may recall that I took a funeral qualification and take a smattering of funerals. As a result I am in two different whatsapp groups of fellow funeral celebrants or funeral directors. They both exploded into life at 3pm today with people talking about just one thing: how you safely carry a coffin up a flight of steps.
(Edit to add: It's probably only funny if you've seen the film from the beginning though.)
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:30 am
So what happened with the coffin?
(I don't watch stranger's funerals)
(I don't watch stranger's funerals)
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:59 pm
There is a long-ish flight of steps outside the door of St George's chapel. The pall-bearers (Royal Marines I think) had to carry it up the steps. They managed it perfectly, as you would logically expect. But managing coffins at shoulder height is not trivial - every time a family insist on carrying it themselves for one of my funerals I get kittens for fear each little wobble might be the start of dropping it, and that's on the level. I just thought it mildly amusing that several of my fellow celebrants were clearly thinking the same as me - never mind the music, or the liturgy, or the general splendour of the occasion, the one thing that got us all excited was carrying a coffin up a flight of steps.
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:57 am
As you, your colleagues and anyone who has been a pall-bearer will know, that was no mean feat. They weigh a ton!JohnToo wrote: ↑3 years agoThere is a long-ish flight of steps outside the door of St George's chapel. The pall-bearers (Royal Marines I think) had to carry it up the steps. They managed it perfectly, as you would logically expect. But managing coffins at shoulder height is not trivial - every time a family insist on carrying it themselves for one of my funerals I get kittens for fear each little wobble might be the start of dropping it, and that's on the level. I just thought it mildly amusing that several of my fellow celebrants were clearly thinking the same as me - never mind the music, or the liturgy, or the general splendour of the occasion, the one thing that got us all excited was carrying a coffin up a flight of steps.
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:38 pm
Absolutely they do!
I was a pall-bearer at my nan's funeral. Myself, 4 of my cousins and one of my cousins husband. All of them are taller than me, the tallest was front right, I was back left. Blimey it was heavy, it felt like I was carrying the thing on my own!
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Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:57 pm
I was a pall bearer for my mum. When I got to the top of the steps, I felt a little concerned, and handed off my corner to one of the undertakers. I had broken by clavicle a few weeks earlier (other side), and didn't want some catastrophic failure.
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 5:25 pm
Hi everyone *wave*, hope you are all ok.
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:59 pm
Hi Lullabelle, I am pretty much ok, thanks, how are things with you?
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Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 7:18 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 4:13 pm
I am on antibiotics for acute sinusitis, they are definitely helping.