If I'm not around for a day or two...

[Rapscallion]

Three more since the last post!

The best?

"You're looking smart!"

"Took a funeral to do it."

"..."

I shouldn't be enjoying this.

Rapscallion

[Rapscallion]

I'm getting the feeling that I usually look really, really scruffy. I can live with that.

"I like the Johnny Cash look!"

I think that's been the best one yet.

Heading out in fifteen minutes.

Rapscallion

[Dark-Star]

Big e-hug sent.

[Becks]

All those posts about you looking smart makes me want to see.








For fun, though, you could've looked shifty and muttered something about a quickie wedding.

[Rapscallion]

Over a hundred people in attendance, by my reckoning - I think that speaks volumes. I reminded her eldest after the event about the bomber story, and he realised too late he'd forgotten it for the eulogy. Gave him a chuckle, though.

He added that she seemed to know all the pubs in the Leeds area, but wouldn't say what had happened in them. Reason enough to smile.

Rapscallion

[Rapscallion]

A few more notes. The vicar started off by saying that Ruth had been involved with that church for some time, but that she hadn't been involved for some time. I whispered to my mother that this was more or less because she didn't like the new vicar when he arrived, which caused some rueful grins.

A bit later, he asked us to have a moment of silence, in which we should say something to Ruth. "I can see why you didn't like him as a vicar," I muttered. This earned me a nudge from my mother, but she had to agree that he wasn't a natural at his job.

She had two sons, and the eldest (P) did a fantastic eulogy. The youngest was J, and his wife (apparently now an ex-wife) turned up as well. Back in the days of the shop, we knew her as the poison dwarf, mostly because we didn't like her. J is one of the nicest people we have ever met, so why he ended up with her we couldn't understand. She and K (one of their daughters, who happened to be our Saturday Girl for a couple of years) turned up late and sat well away from everyone else, so it looks like they're not together any more. It also looks as if K had been poisoned by her mother as well, as they were both avoiding people. Wouldn't have minded a chat for old times sake.

Glad I went.

Rapscallion

[LibraryLady]

Dear Rapscallion,

I'm happy that you got the time off to attend Ruth's Memorial Service. I hope it will help make her passing easier for you.

You have done a very good thing for your friend. In Ancient Egypt there was a belief that, "As you are remembered, so you shall be (in the Afterlife)"

By talking about Ruth you have introduced her to many people who never could have known her in life. You have kept the memory of Ruth alive and sent it out across the world to many peolpe who would have loved to know the Ruth you knew.

[Rapscallion]

Thanks.

I'm chuckling ruefully over it now, though. I'm now convinced that the vicar knew she didn't like him, and he had to give the service despite that, and that the second of the hymns she chose (instructions had been left just in case) was deliberately chosen for being not one of the main ones and a right bugger for people to sing. She wouldn't have admitted to it, but I like to think she would have got a laugh out of that.

Rapscallion

[Gabrielle Proctor]

I'm so sorry raps, she sounds like a really great person. Hugs for you!