Greeting mac users,

How depressing. Can we have an improvement on these
morbid thoughts Dungy please ?
Its the easiest thing in the world to find fault with other people.
Learn to look for the good in them, as I do.

But it's good to see the funny side as well Diane! As my son used to say when he was a Pontin's blue coat! "Where would You Be without a laugh?.......................................
Butlins !!!!"
Well, Dungy, I like to be the one who makes people laugh.....I'm not really much of a drinker but people very often think I've had one too many..and to be honest, I don't mind looking a bit daft if it makes people laugh/smile......so, quite some years ago I told Julie that when I reach the "departure lounge" as you so eloquently put it, I would like to have one of my favourite comedians of all time played "Don't Laugh At Me Cos I'm A Fool"(the wonderful Norman Wisdom of course) She used to think I was joking but she now knows, years later,that I wasn't!!!!(but, I'm hoping that's a long way away......I've still got to get a lot more laughs yet!!)

I agree,a laugh and a joke is necessary most of the time..even at sad times..and as my'departure lounge' won't be in church,as I'm not hypocritical enough to be there for the wrong reasons,not being religious minded..but a humanist exit will be my choice,with something Country music and catchy,to send me on my way to wherever :o)..

We too lost an allotment neighbour 2 years ago. He had stomach cancer. The Doctors told him a year before it happened there was nothing they could do.
He and his wife loved each other so much.
I gave him Brassica plants, said " You come down here and do your plot, never mind about the hospital."
He just smiled, knew I was trying to occupy his mind as worrying doesnt help a cure. He planted them.
They took him to Northampton hospital. Operated on his stomach. He was very ill after that.
It was unbelievable because he always looked so healthy and well.
After he died I wrote an epitaph for him, and pinned it to his allotment gate - it was all I could do.
'Courage came to him, like a friend
To sustain and support,
When life was at an end.
For us, who hope for more sunny days
Our thankfulness for his memory,
And our praise.'

Hi folks,
Dianebulley,
your reading it wrong, its not meant to be morbid,

And if you re-read it you'll understand,
It was one group of friends who met through gardening and had many laughs together saying goodby to one we'll not see again and remembering his ways,

Nothing to do with being morbid,

I like a lot of people do not go to church and im one of those who would like to think of the good side of life rather than the sad side "But" im honest enough to stand up and say once you've passed the 60 age group you do notice the years in front are less than those you've passed along the way,

I hope im very very late for my own funneral "but like others i know i wont be".

Nothing wrong or morbid in sharing thoughts with one another.

Its always sad when we lose someone but I don't find this a depressing blog Diane and the way I read it and I did that twice, Dungy isn't finding fault, quite the opposite, in fact to me the comments sound like fond memories of someone who could be considered tightfisted, in other words careful with his money and if he could get something for free then he would...

A bit like me then,Sue ..or most of us I guess..:o)I don't often refuse a freebie.Lol...and I didn't find it depressing ..just telling it the way it was for his friend :o)