On 2013-12-22 19:26:33 +0000, Dave Liquorice said:

On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:11:40 -0000, Mike wrote:

Will all of your family and friends be there?

Nope just us, nice and quiet and relaxed.

... one of the Olympic Torch carriers this year.

Last year, 2012... unless they carried the Winter Olympics I think
it's on the move now. B-)

A friend who lost his wife, ...

Bit careless, did he put her down somewhere and she ran off?

And everybody will have someone to remember.

Aye, being an orphan my Mum and Dad for two.

Morbid? Downbeat? Wrong time of the year to do this sort of thing?

Naw, we all gotta go, it's one of the very few certainties of life
FFS. Circumstances of one inevitable departure might not be what one
wishes but the is SFA you can do about it. Those left behind should
celebrate the life that has been. I'm leaving a few hundred quid to
each close family member so they have no (financial) reason not to
come to my funeral party and raise a glass.

And I doubt you'll boast about how wonderful you are to do it. To be
frank, Crowe's post appalled me, it's just dreadful in its vulgarity.
Yet again his ego takes precedence.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk