Today Mummy and Daddy dressed up smart and took the minihumans to school then they went up to Stafford to Nannys memorial. They went to the cemetry and met Grandad, Uncles Simon, Nick and Sid and Aunties Jackie and Sue and Grandads cousin and his wife and three of Nanny and Grandad's friends who couldn't make it to the funeral, one was on holiday and the other two were too old to make the journey north.
They went to the family plot and the man from the council took Nanny's casket and said a prayer then he lent by the little hole and said "I hope I don't fall in." Just as he slipped and nearly fell in. Nanny would have laughed at that. Then Daddy left the flowers him and Mummy chose for Nanny and they all said goodbye to Nanny and Mummy and Daddy promised her that everytime they is going up north they will stop at the cemetry on the way and bring her some flowers.
Then they all went to a hotel for lunch. After lunch the family went to the stonemasons to choose Nanny a plaque. Grandad said he wanted marble so it would blend in with all the other stones but the man said they haven't used marble in years and it was difficult to get hold of. Grandad was upset but then Mummy said "Why does it need to blend in? Mum was never one to blend in, she liked to be different. She liked to make a statement." Everybody agreed but Grandad say him need to think about it so they left the stonemasons. Then they went back to the cars and all kiss goodbye and Mummy make everyone promise to come and stay with us soon.
Mummy and Daddy got home just after the minihumans got back from rehearsal. Them has to admit walking home from school not as bad as they thought it would be. It only took 20 minutes. Tom say it would have taken twice that if I had come. Cheeky boy that he is.
After tea Daddy finally got the telly in the bedroom working so we is sitting in bed while Mummy writes this for me. Daddy was out in the street weeding the front of the village hall cos it next door so he thought he would be nice. Him didn't realise there was a council meeting going on until they all come out and say "Oh hello what are you doing?" Him introduced himself and the leader of the council said they just discussed that they would put a sign up asking for someone to do the weeding. Daddy say he guess he just volunteered then. I think that makes Daddy a member of the council. He says he thinks that doesn't. And she invited all my humans to a talk in the hall by a lady who wrote a book about the big house that used to be on the hill behind our house. Mummy and Daddy is looking forward to that, they is very interested in the local history but they couldn't find much on the internet. Mummy had planned on going into town to see if there was anything in the library when she got a chance.
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