They Say What They Say

The Funeral: It was a short simple, service at the crematorium. Nothing overly dramatic, just a few close friends and family gathered to say fond farewell to someone they all loved very much. Someone from the funeral directors spoke about B for about half an hour, then she invited a close friend of his up to say a few words and that was it. He was being cremated so there was no burial, and afterwards we all went back to a local gold club for morning tea. I chatted to one of D's friends about the people we know in common at my old uni where she is currently doing some contract lecturing, drank a cup of tea and ate an egg sandwich point. After about an hour people started to dissipate, so I left as well and will catch up with D when I'm back in the old home town again next week.

The Afternoon: After the funeral I went over to my sister's house, arriving at the same time as one of her friends and her two kids. D (N's friend) has the two sweetest daughters, one aged two, and the other five. They're Chanel babies (their dad is from Laos while D is old home town born and bread) so they've both got their dad's dark hair and eyes and their mum's very pretty features, a combination that means they're already beating the boys off with a stick. My nephew is obsessed with the five year-old and follows her around every where, something which is just too cute for words.

We sat around at N's for a while, and then N took us all over to see her new house. Then A (the five year-old) had asked her mum if they could go out to The Tangled Maze this afternoon, and D invited us along, so along we came.

It was so much fun! The maze really is a popper maze, with lots of twists and turns and dead-ends. It took us a good hour to get through it the first time, then the kids ran around it a couple of times after, first with me where we got good and lost, and then with D. There's a cafe and mini golf, and a nursery if you feel like buying a few plants for the garden. While we were sitting around have coffees and ice cream, all these pretty little blue wrens bobbed about looking for tid-bits, and because there is no traffic and only limited places for the kids to go, it was perfectly safe for them to run around on their own and leave us adults to sit in the shade and talk.

Except now my heat rash has taken exception to all the sun and my arms are as itchy as hell!

I have to work tomorrow and was going to dive home tonight, but I can't be bothered so I'll just get up super early tomorrow and drive back in the morning. And anyway, my brother just handed me a glass of red and I shouldn't drink-dive, should I?

The Funeral: It was a short simple, service at the crematorium. Nothing overly dramatic, just a few close friends and family gathered to say fond farewell to someone they all loved very much. Someone from the funeral directors spoke about B for about half an hour, then she invited a close friend of his up to say a few words and that was it. He was being cremated so there was no burial, and afterwards we all went back to a local gold club for morning tea. I chatted to one of D's friends about the people we know in common at my old uni where she is currently doing some contract lecturing, drank a cup of tea and ate an egg sandwich point. After about an hour people started to dissipate, so I left as well and will catch up with D when I'm back in the old home town again next week.

The Afternoon: After the funeral I went over to my sister's house, arriving at the same time as one of her friends and her two kids. D (N's friend) has the two sweetest daughters, one aged two, and the other five. They're Chanel babies (their dad is from Laos while D is old home town born and bread) so they've both got their dad's dark hair and eyes and their mum's very pretty features, a combination that means they're already beating the boys off with a stick. My nephew is obsessed with the five year-old and follows her around every where, something which is just too cute for words.

We sat around at N's for a while, and then N took us all over to see her new house. Then A (the five year-old) had asked her mum if they could go out to The Tangled Maze this afternoon, and D invited us along, so along we came.

It was so much fun! The maze really is a popper maze, with lots of twists and turns and dead-ends. It took us a good hour to get through it the first time, then the kids ran around it a couple of times after, first with me where we got good and lost, and then with D. There's a cafe and mini golf, and a nursery if you feel like buying a few plants for the garden. While we were sitting around have coffees and ice cream, all these pretty little blue wrens bobbed about looking for tid-bits, and because there is no traffic and only limited places for the kids to go, it was perfectly safe for them to run around on their own and leave us adults to sit in the shade and talk.

Except now my heat rash has taken exception to all the sun and my arms are as itchy as hell!

I have to work tomorrow and was going to dive home tonight, but I can't be bothered so I'll just get up super early tomorrow and drive back in the morning. And anyway, my brother just handed me a glass of red and I shouldn't drink-dive, should I?