....is beginning to feel like a hell of a long time to wait for a funeral! Actually it is a hell of a long time to wait for a funeral and it's courtesy of 'technical issues' at the local crematorium.
Wouldn't you know it!
If something can present a difficulty recently it will do it seems and this is just another in what is beginning to feel like a long line!
On the up-side - yes apparently there always is one - it means that we have had plenty of time to get through the seemingly unending list of things there are to organise beforehand. Dying is a complicated issue in these days of red tape and prior to this experience I wouldn't have believed quite how many things there are to attend too.
Both emotionally and practically this is turning into a very steep learning curve, it's all part of life's rich pattern so they tell me (who the hell are 'they'?)but it's a part I think I could have well got through life without experiencing.... and certainly we could have done without quite so much red tape or quite such a long wait!
So the wait continues until next Tuesday when we can at last all say our final goodbye's, remember my dad, celebrate his life and the man he was and try to move on to the next stage, whatever that stage involves.
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
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Well if there is anything positive to be found from what has been quite frankly a really shit year for you, is that you have coped so well.
(Even though there have been times when you have thought that you weren't coping at all.)
You're a top woman!
Wherever your father is now, he'll be drinking a glass of good red and feeling very proud.
Here, here... I'm in awe of the strength you've found within yourself! xx
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