The Cockroach Cafe (the successor to the Shiny Thread)

I saw a review of the exhibition, and did wonder that very thing about how on earth these things were kept for so long. Was listening to the album on the way to work this morning in homage.

I put my mum's Xmas decs up this evening. Having last year said that they were so old and broken that they needed to be chucked, instead they were put away in a tangled mess into the attic. I hate to think what it will look like in the cold light of day.

nota it's quite small, but some amazing stuff - eg the shattered broken guitar from the London Calling cover. Loads of memorabilia that it's quite hard to wonder why anyone kept. DH spent a small fortune in the gift shop, which is decked out like a merch stall at a gig, but is very happy with his purchases! I think if it's a long way/ expensive to come then maybe not, but if you can make an excuse like we did - half day for DD2, nice lunch, then a totter round an exhib then it's fun. They should have turned the music up though!!

Yolo was the exhibition worth the visit? I've been thinking of going when I'm off over xmas.

Yolo a burning desire for change is what is needed! Go for it xx

London sounds lovely - we haven't been for ages. In fact I think it's been a year - need to put that straight.

sandwich someone else suggested that to me... I'm not sure I'm qualifed though? was a sec school gov for 8 years, but have no real knowledge about NHS procedures, rather than a burning desire for change. Other than that, I'm just a freelance PR person.

Thanks yolo so glad you had a good day!
What about being a nhs non exec director? Expenses paid- I’m sure you would be very valuable!!

Sandwich “I think they just realised they might lose a very major and relatively easy and pleasant client!”

Ah, that’s good.

yolo my last visit to the Museum of London was really off putting. It was the Sherlock Holmes exhibition and there were loads of bored toddlers crying. Well, I presume it was boredom and not fear of the hound or Moriarty 😂 honestly, it was like a crèche.

sandwich bloody well done, but ffs why put you through the hassle? bastards.

We had a lovely day out in London today with DD2 and her boyf - fantastic lunch and then to the Museum of London for the 40th anniv of the release of London Calling by the Clash exhib. How the hell can it be 40 years since its release, and 41 years since DH and I got together?? (we were children...)

Still nothing from hospital so need to chase that tomorrow. Also considering, in light of GE result, looking into whether there is some kind of voluntary inspection role within the NHS like the police used to have. Depends on time and potential brexit loss of income for me I guess.

Rates not changed- I think they just realised they might lose a very major and relatively easy and pleasant client! I think they will deliver. And dm likes them- I would have huge resistance trying to get another agency in unless current ones say to her they can’t cover....

sandwich um, really?

And how has the rate changed?

I’d be concerned that the agency is promising something they can’t deliver....sorry.

Well, after frantic calls, huge angst, and getting friends calling in favours, I found an agency to help cover bank hol calls to dm- only to find that miraculously dms current carers would be able to cover nearly all of the calls- and the key ones for me. Hmmm.... amazing what a whiff of competition can do.....
How is everyone? , cats, dogs and cockroaches to all.

Stylish countrygirl, I like that!

OH's friends ashes were made into shotgun cartridges and his friends and family had a clay pigeon shoot with him.

Oh LEM I’m sorry. So glad you got to doc. 🌺🌺

Loving the cat - here's one for the dog lovers

I love both.

for those of you attending funerals this week.

Had full blown meltdown at work. Managed to get drs appointment and upped my meds.

Thanks for the support folks- it helps.
A cockroach how fab!!!!
jace so sorry about your car- and thank you for the cat. Much appreciated.

Dcat for anyone who needs one lol

Forgot to mention - just to improve my day
I came away from churchyard yesterday after interment to find someone had left a scrape down the side of my car
Today went out for a work related Xmas lunch - returned to car to find someone had scraped my rear bumper!!! 2 in less than 24 hours - neither are worth claiming on insurance but despite being over 5 years old there wasn’t a mark on it before
Grrrrrrrrrrrr

I know exactly what you mean Lellochip
I scattered my cousins ashes with DP not that long ago at a particular spot (his request)
It was on a riverbank under a bridge where his family used to moor their boat
It was a wet and windy day, the bank was steep and muddy - we had to cling onto each other and alternately scatter as otherwise we might have ended up in said river
One of my close friends whose late husband was Ernest put his ashes in a planter by her black door
Ern is in the Urn, and usually has something very colourful growing from the enriched soil

dint and llello

Me and sister thought we'd just take mum's ashes to some woods in our town, as there was no one particular place that was particularly sentimental for her, but thought she'd appreciate somewhere quiet and pretty.

It's not really how it looks on TV though is it, the graceful scattering of a handful of ash to the wind... We had to laugh, in the end it was more like one of us keeping watch while the other rather unceremoniously dumped it out in stages, trying not to get caught for littering by hikers & dog walkers 😅

We like to think she'd have laughed rather than been offended by the slightly undignified experience!

So do you get the ashes interred in a cemetery? I suppose you do, we were offered that now I come to think of it, but it's a place she'd never been to/had no connection with.

Dad's ashes, she put some under a loose tile in his favourite bar and the rest went in the sea. My friend has put her daughters' in a spot on the Downs. I think I'd like mine put in a firework (although that's bad because of animals being scared etc). Maybe a tree? But then it puts it onto someone's conscience to nurture it...

I have a passionate hatred of funerals

I found dad's ashes ceremony not too bad - but it seems to be creeping up on me now. Annoying.