Funeral
Posted: Thu 27 Sep 2018 13:57
I’ve just come back from a funeral, entirely by accident. I took the silly little dog down to the quai to buy some bread and a newspaper, and then took him up to place de l’obélisque to have a trot round.
When I got there, I found that they had cleared the front half of the car park, and put a coffin there on trestles (with flowers, but not wreaths that I saw): there was a decent but not huge crowd of mourners. The master of ceremonies spoke briefly (and obviously knew the deceased, so far as I could judge from a discreet distance). And then they played some mild jazz over the PA. And then someone else spoke. And more jazz. And then more, briefly, from the MC. And then they took him off to be burnt (at something well over 80, as I gathered from the speeches).
I would settle for that, on such a lovely day as today (assuming that it’s compulsory to do something to get rid of the body, as I guess it is).
I think I will have “Muskrat Ramble†as my “going-to-the-crem†music
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpuFYQwZ5o
although the original version on the “Hot Fives and Sevens†is far better.
When I got there, I found that they had cleared the front half of the car park, and put a coffin there on trestles (with flowers, but not wreaths that I saw): there was a decent but not huge crowd of mourners. The master of ceremonies spoke briefly (and obviously knew the deceased, so far as I could judge from a discreet distance). And then they played some mild jazz over the PA. And then someone else spoke. And more jazz. And then more, briefly, from the MC. And then they took him off to be burnt (at something well over 80, as I gathered from the speeches).
I would settle for that, on such a lovely day as today (assuming that it’s compulsory to do something to get rid of the body, as I guess it is).
I think I will have “Muskrat Ramble†as my “going-to-the-crem†music
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vpuFYQwZ5o
although the original version on the “Hot Fives and Sevens†is far better.