Two funeral functions for the price of one
BAD ENOUGH having to attend your own funeral, but two of them? Good friend Mike Rule, one of London's characters, was the lucky soul for the treatment today, although his mortal remains made do with just one. Son Ralph organised the orthodox funeral which began at South Ealing, and then moved to the Mortlake Crematorium near Richmond.
Making a Methuselah merry
IT'S AMAZING to reach a Methuselah stage and still find that extraordinary things happen in life. They don't often, of course, and they certainly don't happen quickly. Praying to your lucky stars often takes a bit longer than an Amazon delivery. But, heavens! when they happen! And it's just happened again.
Call this justice? Tell it to the judge
THERE'S A BELIEF that a malevolent being takes pleasure from taunting us. True, life sometimes seems that way.
Coincidences can happen in twos
STRANGE HOW COINCIDENCES come along in life. I was musing on a really stunning moment from a voyage, an occasion that features in Sailing to Purgatory. I don't want to detract from the pleasure I hope many readers will share when they read of that astonishing find in the most extraordinary circumstances.
Not exactly a jury made in heaven
That jury! I was writing yesterday about the seeming attitude of the driving force of the jury - if I might put the stronger personalities into such a bracket. A sort of spirit of Lieutenant Columbo was present. Forget the lawyers' way with innuendos. They'd sort out the baddies.
