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Offline Nick

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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2008, 10:26:48 AM »
You had a black market funeral for your Dad? eeek:
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2008, 10:29:20 AM »
They wouldn't take credit cards, cheques, maestro or anything sensible. Only a spanish cash card which none of us had.
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2008, 10:37:10 AM »
How very odd.
I suppose they had been "caught out" in the past by some of the dodgy characters who used to hide out in Spain.

When I "arranged" Mum's funeral I did it "long distance" by 'phone from London with a local undertaker in Dorset who was happy to send me the bill and that didn't come until several weeks after the cremation. Dunno what he would have done if I hadn't paid. I like to think that she would have laughed at my suggestion, to my brother, that if we didn't pay the undertaker would try to piece the ashes back together. We did share the same warped sense of humour Mum and I.
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2008, 10:38:01 AM »
They said if we didn't pay we couldn't have the casket. God knows what they want to do with the ashes.  ::)
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2008, 10:41:13 AM »
Exactly ....... best to laugh about it too I feel.
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2008, 11:18:11 AM »
When my daughter was buried they did it for free. They do that with babies cry:

She'd be 12 now
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2008, 11:55:03 AM »
Sorry Nick .... forgot.

You are not alone with such thoughts but that is a long story that I am not going into here.
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2008, 11:57:16 AM »
Quote from: Nick on March 12, 2008, 11:18:11 AM
When my daughter was buried they did it for free. They do that with babies cry:

She'd be 12 now

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Sorry matey didn't think.
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2008, 11:57:59 AM »
Actually, and this is for all, if you experience the death of a child it is the worst thing that can ever happen to you.

ANd since the worst thing that can ever happen has happened, nothing else holds any fear.

A life without fear is a rare experience, since most (no all) people fear something.

I don't any more
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #24 on: March 12, 2008, 11:58:27 AM »
Quote from: Bar Wench on March 12, 2008, 11:57:16 AM
Quote from: Nick on March 12, 2008, 11:18:11 AM
When my daughter was buried they did it for free. They do that with babies cry:

She'd be 12 now

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Sorry matey didn't think.

No prob matey
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #25 on: March 12, 2008, 11:59:43 AM »
I imagine that it is. I can't obviously relate but losing a parent was bad enough and I imagine it is much worse.

But as you say pretty liberating. Although not at a price that anyone would want to pay.
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2008, 01:17:27 PM »
Quote from: Nick on March 12, 2008, 11:57:59 AM
Actually, and this is for all, if you experience the death of a child it is the worst thing that can ever happen to you.

ANd since the worst thing that can ever happen has happened, nothing else holds any fear.

A life without fear is a rare experience, since most (no all) people fear something.

I don't any more

I can see that.  I get scared just at the thought of anything happening to my two girls, I can't imagine what you must have felt. 

I am so sorry for your loss.  Nothing else could come close to this.


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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #27 on: March 12, 2008, 01:49:35 PM »
Well that killed the thread!
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #28 on: March 12, 2008, 01:58:49 PM »
Well to get back on track .... perhaps you would like to borrow some brushes, a ladder and a roller. You will of course need a white van at some stage. There is clearly money in painting and NO TAX from the look of it.
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Re: Getting lumbered
« Reply #29 on: March 12, 2008, 02:00:55 PM »
Shame I've just finished doing the outside of mine... you could have popped-over... whistle:
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