Good times can come out of hard times...

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...

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