Fiona's Quiet Life

???? Life, or in fact death is so com­plic­ated, maybe it is just because?I am work­ing with a head full of marsh­mal­low and get­ting close to melt­down but everything seems so unne­ces­sar­ily dif­fi­cult today. start­ing with all traffic light turn­ing to red if?I get any­where near them.

???? First in order to bury/cremate someone you need to register the death, in order to register the death you need a death cer­ti­fic­ate, the doc­tor had delivered the cer­ti­fic­ate to some­where miles away that i couldn’t find, even it’s nearest police sta­tion didn’t know where it was. he could have kept it in his sur­gery and made life much easier for me. so hav­ing wasted ages doing that i man­age to get a time fixed for the funeral by phone so then i can put the notice in the news­pa­per in case i have missed any­body that would want to come. but the newspaper’s com­puters are down.

so we have lunch.

?? then we go up to the regis­trars and register the death , that was made nice and easy by a very nice regis­trar at East­wood registry office ‚Mar­isa had given me her birth cert. and mar­riage cert, which made?even more?easy as all the info about occu­pa­tions? was there.. hav­ing got the requis­ite bits of paper we head off for the under­takers .…..who were not quite where they said they were.….……but they were closed already by 4;40 p.m. grrrr. so i have to get the papers to them by 11 a.m. tomor­row or there will be no funeral.

???? The news­pa­per said the notice had to be in by 4;30 but as their com­puters had been down she let me off with doing it late. so it should be in tomorrow.

???? I did man­age to put one in her local paper no trouble.and they want me to do an obit as she was a well known local character.

???? Gor­don has spent all day and half of last night try­ing to get flights for Mari­anne to get across from Den­mark and flights for them to get back by Fri­day. she arrives at 07:15 am tomorrow.

mean­while i keep remem­ber­ing people i should be phoning.

so funeral is set for Wed­nes­day morn­ing, tomor­row i shall get loads of food from M&S for the wake.

now i need a cup of tea

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