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The Value of Celebrant Services for Every Funeral Home
I found the following piece written by Alexandra Jo! Alexandra is a certified Celebrant and the Content Manager at Parting Stone where she creates forward-thinking content for funeral professionals. I wanted to share this for others to read as it gives a great perspective from a funeral celebrant point of view, please also understand that […]
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Restoration of weathered garden ornaments
I wrote a short piece on 05th June 2022 called “Restoration of an old fountain” just to back track the purpose of the story. Sadly my fiancée lost her mother Susan Dickens in January 2022, Susan left us on her 67th birthday, the shock has been unmeasurable to us all as a family, aswell as […]
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Pennington our own little Manor
How much do you really know about our area of Pennington? now I knew we had a long history dating back many centuries, I know our area was very prominent in the region, but I didn’t know our full history, the property I live in is probably somewhere in the region of 400 years old […]
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History of the Towers at Alton Towers
Most people have visited Alton Towers at least once in their lifetime! The attraction of fast roller coasters and endless rides appeals to our inner child and our needful Thrills and spills. But amongst the rides such as Oblivion, Smiler, Nemesis, Galactic, Wickerman, Rita, Thirteen and countless others, sits a beautiful old castle quietly rotting […]
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Restoration of an old fountain
As work commenced on the memorial garden that I’m creating for my partners mother, Susan Dickens who sadly left us on her 67th birthday, January 10th 2022 leaving us with a lasting void. So within the grounds of our cottage was this 25 year old fountain looking very bedraggled and rather washed out. Would of […]
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Baz Luhrmann “Everybody’s free (to wear Sunscreen)”
Back in 1997 a song was released into the UK single charts by Baz Luhrmann, called Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen) it went to number 1 in the UK charts as well as earning platinum status due to sales, as songs go its not a dance track, or rock or anything like that whatsoever! It’s […]
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War of the Worlds 2022 Manchester AO Arena
“No one would have believedIn the last years of the nineteenth centuryThat human affairs were being watchedFrom the timeless worlds of spaceNo one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinizedAs someone with a microscope studies creaturesThat swarm and multiply in a drop of waterFew men even considered the possibility of life on other planetsAnd […]
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Step back in time in Kirkby Lonsdale & Kendal.
Me and my fiancée Michelle both up at 0800 the boys still sleeping a peek out the curtains the rain is falling heavy typical winter English weather, a hot cup of tea to start the day followed by a lightly toasted piece of bread, smothered in Lurpack butter yum. Boys awake and up and about […]
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The Pirate Island by James Sargent aged 12 years old
A piece written by my son James, he is 12 years old, I’ve left the text body and layout exactly as he has written it, hope you enjoy. My name is John Jawline and I live with my mum in Scotland since my dad died 2 years before I was born. I was doing the […]
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Churches Closing! Who’s Really to Blame?
Regardless of who you are or what your religious persuasion is? Whenever we see a church closing down, or see one all boarded up, there is a tinge of sadness, and we all begin to wonder, how could it of closed? Churches have lots of money? Shouldn’t be allowed? I could go on for ever […]
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Make Your Bed”delivered by ADMIRAL WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN
I didn’t write this piece but I find so powerful and inspiring, I wanted to share it with you, we can all take lessons out of this speech, little snippets we can use each day in our lives, the part on “make your bed” inspires me as its so true! I hope you enjoy this […]
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Saturday/Sunday Morning U12s Football Back Again!!!
There is no better feeling of getting my son up on a Saturday morning, so he can play football again. The COVID-19 pandemic impact has been extremely difficult for adults to handle and manage, but for our children it has been considerably worse. Prior to the pandemic my son who currently plays for Leigh Genesis […]
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#bekind
You came naked,You will go naked.You arrived weakYou will leave weak.You came without money and things,You will leave without money and things.Your first bath? Someone washed youYour last bath? Someone will wash you. This is life! So why so much envy, so much malice, so much hate, so much resentment, and so much selfishness? BE […]
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Working At New York JFK 2000-2004 (Part 2: Day 1)
My very first experience of JFK was day 1 when I reported to building#69! This is where Hudson General/GlobeGround North America’s main office was at the airport, there HQ was at that time over in Great Neck NY, I arrived prompt and early as I was required to sort out mu airside permits and my […]
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The Boy In The Branches A Story By James Sargent (Aged 11 years old)
My 11 year old son James during lockdown, started writing short stories all from his imagination. He received no help with his short pieces just sat quietly and put them together, he wanted me to share a couple of teasers from his stories this one is called “The Boy In The Branches” all in his […]
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Has The Pandemic Unwittingly Made Funerals More Personal?
As a Funeral Director working from an extremely busy location, this last 12 months have been incredibly hard, as I can imagine it has for the majority of my colleagues the length and breadth of the country or in fact the globe. We have been largely unrecognized throughout the pandemic, and have seen so many […]
Life Through Ordinary Eyes 