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Saying Goodbye is never easy

Last week I lost a friend and ex-work colleague to cancer. The world we inhabit now makes it more likely that we all have friends and family scattered across the globe.  My friend lived in the US, so it was not possible to attend her funeral. The result is that I found myself feeling very...

Be very careful of ‘The Dash’

A simple poem that we’ve used at many funerals, an innocent blog and then an eye-opener to some very bad behaviour. In a recent blog (now withdrawn) we used a bit of a poem called ‘The Dash’ by US author Linda Ellis (with full credit given to the author). That simple act of sharing resulted...

In memory of Lubomir Wojciech Orzechowski

In memory of Lubomir Wojciech Orzechowski. 1st May 1923 – 8th May 2012 This past ten days has been amazing for three distinctly different reasons. A wedding at the Bay Hotel in Fife in glorious sunshine with Edinburgh in the distance across the shimmering Forth; a baby naming for a beautiful wee boy named Alastair, also in...