Except my friend Louise died on Friday morning, she had been failing the last few days but still struggled to help out at the Senior Centre on the front desk. I called to see her there at the beginning of last week.
Her funeral was this afternoon. I can't get over the SPEED at which people are buried or cremated in this country. They also have a very bizarre custom of having the casket open while everyone is filing in. I find it a bit.........I don't quite know what the word is........ when I go into the church or chapel and the dear departed is lying there in the casket down the front. And not only 'lying there' but propped up on a pillow, with her spectacles on - heaven knows why, she's not going to need them in Heaven.
It wasn't the best funeral I have ever been to. It was held in the funeral home and conducted by the pastor of the little Methodist chapel she attended. There didn't seem to be any format to it. Several hymns were played on the piano, there was no singing; no "I am the Resurrection and the Life" as clergy stride down the aisle, and family process to their seats; just the pastor going on and on and on and on. The pastor was African American, not that there is anything wrong with that except that she had a very thick accent I found hard to understand. After about an hour I got restive and turned on my C-Nook in my handbag. Memo to my loved ones. Please make sure that whoever conducts my funeral knows what they are doing, I don't want the congregation surreptitiously reading and waiting for it to finish.
I found this rather nice photo of her and Cecil on my computer taken a couple of years ago.
The news is all the Presidential campaign. Or rather, it is Donald Trump, dominating the campaign which is actually rather entertaining.
His slogan is "we have to take our country back" which means throwing out the 18 million illegal immigrants (sorry, 'undocumented' persons) already here. TV anchors press him on how exactly he proposes to do that. Someone this evening gave him a scenario of a little family of illegal immigrant parents and their two children living in their small home in the Midwest, and Trump was asked if ICE agents are really going to kick their door in and drag them out. He looked a bit uncomfortable at the question but still insisted that "yes" it has to be done, the good ones will be able to come back in when they have gone through the proper procedures. Then he went on to brag about how he has got a big heart really. Yeah............
Someone else on another programme figured that for every illegal person deported there will have to be a Hearing, and an Appeal, and it will all take DECADES. He didn't have a response to that.
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