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Exhausted and ded Llama is exhausted and ded.
Today was my Auntie Molly's funeral. In Taunton, which is a good 190 or so miles away. We left the house at 07:58 this morning and got back at 18:22. That's almost 10 hours. Of driving. Needless to say, I'm stressed, tired and achy.
I even managed to get a freaking puncture, almost have a blow-out and got TOWED to the crematorium. We were like 5 minutes late. SO embarassing. Luckily there was a tyre place next door so we were able to get Lotte a new tyre quite easily.
Found out that Molly's name... wasn't Molly. It was Gertrude, but my Grandad didn't like Gertrude, starting calling her Molly when she was 5 days old, and it stuck.
Met loads of relatives who were simply names but now have faces. Have cousins in their mid-60s!!!!!
Mum wasn't up to the wake so we drove and had lunch at the very cheerily name Stone Gallows - but it was a Hungry Horse so the food was awesome. Ended up talking about funerals - mum asked me if I remembered anything from Daddy's and all I can remember is blue flowers and red curtains.... and that only came back to me at the crem today. I have this weeklong minimum blank in my memory that starts the day he died.
Then we turned around and drove home
The end
Today was my Auntie Molly's funeral. In Taunton, which is a good 190 or so miles away. We left the house at 07:58 this morning and got back at 18:22. That's almost 10 hours. Of driving. Needless to say, I'm stressed, tired and achy.
I even managed to get a freaking puncture, almost have a blow-out and got TOWED to the crematorium. We were like 5 minutes late. SO embarassing. Luckily there was a tyre place next door so we were able to get Lotte a new tyre quite easily.
Found out that Molly's name... wasn't Molly. It was Gertrude, but my Grandad didn't like Gertrude, starting calling her Molly when she was 5 days old, and it stuck.
Met loads of relatives who were simply names but now have faces. Have cousins in their mid-60s!!!!!
Mum wasn't up to the wake so we drove and had lunch at the very cheerily name Stone Gallows - but it was a Hungry Horse so the food was awesome. Ended up talking about funerals - mum asked me if I remembered anything from Daddy's and all I can remember is blue flowers and red curtains.... and that only came back to me at the crem today. I have this weeklong minimum blank in my memory that starts the day he died.
Then we turned around and drove home
The end