Elderly parents or relatives to care for and/or worry about? This is the place for you.
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20 Mar
10:18am, 20 Mar 2024
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McGoohan
Understandable TR, my sympathies
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20 Mar
5:54pm, 20 Mar 2024
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macca 53
It’s a very strange, empty time isn’t it ThorntonRunner. You have my sympathies.
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20 Mar
10:23pm, 20 Mar 2024
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ThorntonRunner
Thanks all. Had a call from the funeral directors this afternoon - they've had to bring forward the funeral by half an hour, the crematorium had double booked. It's a council run crematorium, and about three weeks ago the council suffered a cyber attack that they're still recovering from. When we first saw the fds after mum died, they said they were having to visit the council offices in person as phone and email were down, and it seems in using a paper system instead of their normal setup the crematorium made a mistake. Fortunately it's not for another three weeks so the change doesn't cause any problems. |
20 Mar
10:53pm, 20 Mar 2024
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Lip Gloss
Wow you seem to have a long wait time for funerals down south.
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21 Mar
7:18am, 21 Mar 2024
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Mandymoo
We waited 4 weeks for Jens funeral
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21 Mar
7:18am, 21 Mar 2024
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LindsD
We don't have enough crematoria. At least not in densely populated places. I think we waited 5.
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21 Mar
7:48am, 21 Mar 2024
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Lip Gloss
That's so tough, that's a long time to have closure. We think it's long if we have to wait 2wks. Only one crematorium here
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21 Mar
9:28am, 21 Mar 2024
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jabberknit
It was a 4 week wait for Mum's funeral for us here in a slightly different part of Leicestershire to ThorntonRunner and there are 2 recently built crematoria near us.
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21 Mar
3:33pm, 21 Mar 2024
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Fields
Dad’s POA came back today so just registered it online. While doing so, I realise they have misspelt the town I live in - the last 4 letters are HTON when it should be NTON. This is going to be a problem isn’t it. I have let my Dad know, by the time we get it sorted with the correct details we are going to actually need to use the thing! |
21 Mar
4:56pm, 21 Mar 2024
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CK2
I actually found a few weeks wait for dad’s funeral helpful in preparing for it - mentally and physically. There was so much to do!
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