presta
Guru
Or perhaps I'll leave it to anyone willing to ride naked to the funeral on a horse drawn hearse.
Funerals (yours)
- Thread starter Dave 123
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Or perhaps I'll leave it to anyone willing to ride naked to the funeral on a horse drawn hearse.
That narrows it down to one CCr as far as I know.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Mike Ayling
Veteran
- Location
- Melbourne Downunda
Requiem Mass going out with incense!
Time Waster
Veteran
I don't know...how rich is he? Or will be after a lifetime of buying bicycles n+1?
Time Waster
Veteran
HMS is the third nuclear powered v boat submarine. I'm service 1967 and famous for running into a Russian sub. Laid up in Devonport since 1991 awaiting disposal. The seventh warspite in the Royal navy. An honourable name.
I'm sure you meant the ship warspite not the boat warspite (ships if bigger than a certain size unless a submarine in which case it's a boat at whatever size). The last ship with that name ran aground in the late 40s and scrapped in the 50s. Was the most decorated in WWII gaining 15 battle honours from 1913 when it went into service.
If you want that, you better find HG Wells time machine.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
For a while I was taken with the idea (suggested on CC I think) of having a simple non-religious service, but once the cutrains close behind the coffin, there's 30-40 seconds of a humming noise followed by a loud 'ping'.
Now looking to sort out a direct cremation plan and then letting any surviving relatives decide what sort of celebration (if any) they want to have of my life. Money will be left in my will to provide for any do that is held. My mum & stepdad have already organised theirs through the Co-Op.
Now looking to sort out a direct cremation plan and then letting any surviving relatives decide what sort of celebration (if any) they want to have of my life. Money will be left in my will to provide for any do that is held. My mum & stepdad have already organised theirs through the Co-Op.
HMS_Dave
Grand Old Lady
Indeed. HMS Warspite (03).
I did a little thing on it here with pics a while ago.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/a...f-anything-thread.262567/page-79#post-6923699
Time Waster
Veteran
Of course the final warspite was a nuclear sub in service from 1965 to 1991. It was part of our continuous service from 1969 where at least one nuclear powered submarine carrying nuclear missiles was at sea at all times. Don't believe those English language, French owned naval capability websites that say there was about 6 months without a boat at sea. We are possibly one of the very few to maintain this deterrent and the French navy which has a many nuclear subs as royal navy has never managed this nor claim that capability.
The warspite submarine was in service right through the height of the cold War. It was around I believe during the 60s Cuban missile crisis and certainly when we came closest to full scale nuclear war in 1984 I believe. It might not have had the battle honours of its immediate predecessor but it had a truly honourable service too. Plus the men with the dolphins who manned her! I bet they had plenty of dits to tell!
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
My parents asked me to make a wooden container for my grandmothers ashes so they could bury them in the garden; I used untreated pine and traditional animal glue so it would rot down quickly, and with my mother's enthusiasm for applying compost on the surface I doubt there's much left a decade later.
There's a suspicion that my great grandmothers ashes were 'interred' in the family plot one dark night using a trowel, after her kids refused to pay internment costs for adding another urn to "their" grave.
bobzmyunkle
Über Member
Apparently human ashes aren't a lot of benefit to soil quality.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
my aunt died before her dog. the dogs ashes were added to the plot in the church yard using a similar method about a year later.
