Playlist
Britt Warner - The Ransom
Needlepoint - The Woods Are Not What They Seem
Olivia Belli - Intermundia
Lizzy McAlpine - Older
TERAMAZE - Eli : A Wonderful Fall From Grace
S1gns Of L1fe - Portal to Transcendence
worriedaboutsatan - If Not Now, When
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Nimbus
Kirk Degiorgio - The Statement
Arild Andersen, Daniel Sommer, & Rob Luft - As Time Passes
The Janitors - An Error Has Occurred
Splashgirl & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - More Human
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - Your Community Hub
claire rousay - sentiment
Fergus McCreadie - Stream
ambienteer - énouement
aespa - Armageddon - The 1st Album
Outlander - Acts of Harm
Martin - Piano Quintet, Quartet, Pavane couleur du temps
Reinvere - Jüri Reinvere: Ship of Fools
Iota - pentasomnia
Cage The Elephant - Neon Pill
Palace - Ultrasound
The Omnific - The Law Of Augmenting Returns
Brad Mehldau - Après Fauré
EELS - EELS TIME!
DIIV - Frog In Boiling Water
Motorpsycho - Neigh!!
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 2024/25
Passport - Iguacu
Rachel Chinouriri - What A Devastating Turn of Events (Deluxe)
Miles Davis - Star People
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Various Composers - Konzert in Sanssouci
Up at 6 on the day we said goodbye to my old mum...
First tasks of the day...
Writing up yesterday...
Tweaking the Eulogy...
Creating a film for Whitby...
Creating another film for Whitby...
All soundtracked by tracks from various LPs of the Day so far in 2024...
Plus, of course, the Live Suite for Whitby...
Gave this Miles Davis album a spin following its purchase in Indiana by Twitterchum, Tony Isch...
Lunch and a couple of "Breeders" and then, it was time to go...
"Billion Dollar Babies" accompanied the drive to the crematorium...
We were in the small chapel but it was packed full with family, friends of family, old friends of mum (and dad), including people from afar, who'd made the trip especially...
Mum would have been so touched by the fantastic turnout...
All went well with the service...
I'd practised the eulogy so often, I was sure I could get through it, but faltered at the lines...
My final question to her was, “What would you like to happen in the future?”
"I'd like to feel a lot better" she said
Managed to recompose myself and made it to the end...
Sheila did wonderfully with her reading of the poem "Let Me Go"...
The pictorial tribute, to the sound of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" set me off again close to the end...
And then, of course, there was the walk past at the door as everyone exited...
Some of that too was very hard...
But...
That's a funeral for you...
Over the road and a splendid spread provided at the Balmwell, a venue mum had often visited with her chum Janette over the years...
Great to catch up with Janette and family, Robert Jardine, Wee Marion from Glasgow with Billy Fleming and Lilian...
Good times indeed...
Good times can come out of hard times...
On the way home, we dropped off the beautiful flower display at the Marie Curie Hospice, where Pam died back in 2011...
...and Pam made it along today, in the form of the locket Anne wore...
Mum would have liked that....
This evening - given today was also Jane and Maureen's birthdays (and indeed Robert Jardine's dad, our Uncle Denny's 96th, had he not died back in 1988), we were out with Jane, Bob and family to the Cool Jade...
A walk down the hill and along to the restaurant...
...for a top time with Bob, Jane, Olly, Kitty and Kitty's boyfriend Ewan...
Great chat and a delicious meal - just the ticket...
And this was inside my fortune cookie...
The one I got, the last one in the basket, after Bob took the one I'd been thinking of taking...
On such coincidences are religions based...
After saying our farewells, we retraced our steps back home, for an episode of "All Creatures Great and Small" before hitting the sack...
A good day, all told...
Highlight of the Day : Mum's send off...
Today's New Music:-
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