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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Nov 2023 3:01pm, 3 Nov 2023 39,623 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Thanks
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Nov 2023 3:02pm, 3 Nov 2023 39,624 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Oops! Thanks um, not sure I will agree to do it, I need to consider…
Velociraptor Nov 2023 3:29pm, 3 Nov 2023 66,121 posts	0 Velociraptor My dad has kept back some of my mum's ashes to take to Majorca if he ever gets back there. We have ascertained that it's unlikely that Mum would end up in a bin at airport security along with all the toy guns and oversized bottles of water.
Hanneke Nov 2023 3:52pm, 3 Nov 2023 113,826 posts	0 Hanneke I scattered half of my friend's mums ashes under her roses. I was her friend, carer and gardener. We did it together, it was very special. I'd be happy with my ashes to be scattered anywhere to be honest...
Ally-C Nov 2023 5:03pm, 3 Nov 2023 4,403 posts	0 Ally-C My dad’s wife asked me to find a place to scatter his ashes, I didn’t have a clue tbh because we didn’t have much of a relationship, so I just fired him into the River Clyde 😀 The reasoning being he was from Glasgow & was in the merchant navy for a period.
MH Nov 2023 5:37pm, 3 Nov 2023 986 posts	0 MH My Dad always used to joke that when the time came my Mum's ashes should be scattered along Oxford Street (bit of a shopping fan, my Mum..) - We didn't, naturally.
Velociraptor Nov 2023 5:44pm, 3 Nov 2023 66,124 posts	0 Velociraptor I sometimes wonder if my late FiL, who asked to be scattered on Catbells, is howling with rage because his children SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that he actually wanted to be laid to rest among the bookshops in Hay on Wye, not on a windy hillside.
Mandymoo Nov 2023 5:49pm, 3 Nov 2023 17,619 posts	0 Mandymoo My nans ashes were scattered half in Oz where she spent the later years of her life, and half in Kent
Fizz :-) Nov 2023 5:49pm, 3 Nov 2023 8,331 posts	0 Fizz :-) WW has an ever growing list of places he wants bits of him leaving. I’m very much hoping that I’m far too old and frail to do it when the times comes and will be asking your VP to throw a handful off the top of Catbells, V’rap.
Velociraptor Nov 2023 5:57pm, 3 Nov 2023 66,125 posts	0 Velociraptor VP's navigational skills are such that WW had better not be too fussy about which fell top he's chucked off, Fizz

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