Yes, I celebrated my 77th birthday recently. Am not getting any younger. Decided there was a chore that needed to be attended to, one that could not be left indefinitely on the back burner.
Here's a clue to what I'm referring to. (Am toying with idea of making it the first of a short series of future postings).
Yes, it's a part-completed application form. For what? Answer: a funeral plan, to be paid via 60 monthly instalments (my wife is currently filling out one for herself. Both of us are going for the Woodland Burial Option - there being a well-known site of generous proportions some 25 miles away. One can opt - as we both done - for a biodegradable coffin - choosing from cardboard, bamboo or willow (we've both chosen the last of those three).
A goodly part of the application form's Page 3 displayed above is taken up with two issues: what would one like read out at one's service by a named individual, what music would one like to be played? I finally hit on an 'integrated' solution - probable/possible subject of a follow-up posting.
My solution is somewhat unconventional - so why spring it on attendees without warning? Why not flag it up in advance? Make one's long term online blogging presence finally earn its keep!
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Here's a preview of the number I wish played at my funeral. It's by that Colombian superstar called Shakira. It's from Nov 2006. It's called "Illegal". ( Sadly it's rarely listed in her most popular hits! But then 'sadness' is its overwhelming message ...).
Shakira was in the news just a few days ago, having had an encounter in Spain with wild boars!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/09/29/shakira-confronted-wild-boars-tried-rob-barcelona-park/
Here's the lyric:
Illegal
The way you've done it
So deliberate, so determined
Postscript - added Oct 5, 2021
Caption to follow shortly... Suffice it to say that what you see at the top of the above screen grab is the title of this site as it appeared until late yesterday, i.e. "Dreams and Daemons (Reborn after absence)/The original Dreams and Daemons (Oct 06 - Aug 07)".
( In passing, there was a Mark 2 Dreams and Daemons on a separate website - let's not waste time with details- which later lapsed. Thus the reference to "reborn" when I decided to resurrect the original site in 2019 to report on a school reunion - after a lengthy period - some 10 years or so)
It's now been simplified (thus far) to "Dreams and Daemons". Expect a more informative tagline to appear later today or tomorrow..
