Tuesday, May 21

lunch with eleven women

in a sun-drenched-wisteria-ridden garden,  a laburnum tree burgeoning with yellow flowers took up most of the air above us, tiny bits of cobalt sky peeped through the blooms. We ate salmon in dill sauce with Jersey Royal potatoes then summer pudding with cream and raspberry cream roulade with extra cream. We were celebrating a scratch-card win.

Our host is an undertaker, four of the guests were either undertakers or 'in the business'. The host didn't want the lunch to become 'too-death-ey' and kept trying to introduce other topics of conversation but death and it's complications are too much fun; one guest had been asked to bury a large man in a wardrobe - there was a problem getting the body into the chapel, another guest was in the process of converting an ex-Carphone Warehouse into a mortuary ...


in other news

French Boy lodger has found his culinary groove - breakfast is fizzy pop and chocolate biscuits. For supper he has found a never-ending supply of reconstituted chicken-in-breadcrumbs, he fries as many nuggets as will fit on a big plate every single evening, I'm hoping he gets home to his mother before scurvy sets in.

9 comments:

  1. That's always so awkward when the group begins to "talk shop" and one is not in the industry.

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    1. also usually a bit dull - not in this case!

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  2. I remember similar laughs with the ordained father of a student. Highly entertaining snippets of helping people through their grief, including the widow who wanted her husband's favourite cup buried with him.Tea included!

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    1. my friend buried his favourite sports shoes next to her husband and poured in a pint of beer

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  3. Funeral directors get to see the best and worst of human behaviour, I reckon!
    Sx

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    1. and soon we'll be able to compost ourselves!

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    2. My ambition is to live long enough for this to be my exit!

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  4. I have missed you for a long time but I am returned from the void and I’m sending Big Love.
    Rebecca

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