Please.......no more!

Haha Katek.....true. Most of us would have put some money away for that. I think my dear friend gave £5000 to her son 2 years before she died.

I agree they are so annoying .

oh God am sick of those ads too, I don't need the constant reminder I'm getting older, currently watching the 'over 55's equity release plan' that's another type of d that gets on my nerves

Mobility scooters and reclining chairs

They must just think we are easy to con into thinking its a good idea. And once started won't leave, (because we are gonna die?)

Forget 'free gifts'. Anyway, I want to be composted!

I know there is somewhere that allows this in a controlled and legal way, in a nice setting, but not sure where it is in the world.

And what on earth has it to do with a Gardener , or is A T looking for comostable clients ?

Lost

compostable [I can't spell

That’s the third one on now from tine I first posted - dodgy guy is in the garden centre. Beware!

I get all this stuff through the post too.
It can be depressing if you let it but I just curse it, bin it and feel better for doing it.

3dognight, if you are anywhere near oxfordshire, www.woodlandburialwestmill.co.uk/About-Us will give you a wonderful green funeral. Liz Rothschild, the funeral director, puts on a show 'Outside the Box' in which she discusses all the taboo questions you always wanted to ask, it was very funny and instructive!

For example, beware of being offered 'hygiene services', this is not washing the body but embalming, which is totally unnecessary in these days of freezers, and just another expense!

I curse it and recycle it ;)

Oh my goodness ,please stop. The point I think Katek was making is we don't want to think about dying

or reclining in one of those chairs , I tried one , hated it

Fourth........

Precisely vena11! I have enough reminders of my advancing years as I creak out of bed every morning!

Thank you for that link b9exchange.

I will have a look at that, I'm in north Notts though. I hope it's not a service I will need anytime soon!

Yup, Alan Titchmarsh seems to have taken up where Parky left off.
I've got my funeral sorted, DH works for the Co-op so we are with them.

Hi Aggie, My mum was extremely thin and small. She didn'tlike reclining chairs because she didn't have the strength to push them back down (don't suppose she was ever shown an electric one).

The place where she worked got some of those ones which can recline or give you a bit of a help when you get up and somebody persuaded DM just to try it.

She opted for the tip up thing, activated if you sat forward about to get up. Unfortunately, she was so slight the chair shot her up and out like a cannonball and I have to say it was the first and only time I ever heard language like that from her (she repeated the story of course).

Fortunately, only her pride was hurt, but none of us ever trusted "assistance" chairs ever again.

Ps She did see the funny side, eventually, which was just as well as the more she told it, the funnier it got (cruel children that we were).

Ah, but there may be some free binoculars or a pen! ?

Katek if you want background, try radio instead. I switch between Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

No ads, sometimes a good drama or comedy.

Damn right. I got a phone call this morning,
"Is that beige?"
"I'm calling you about the funeral plan you asked about."
"No thank you, I didn't ask about one."
I put the phone down and blocked. How did they get my number?

Parsnip man, chatting to the woman who has just been to a funeral, tells her he has a couple of those plans. I wonder how many we need!