This civil funeral arranger lives in a small village in Ireland where it can be difficult to find the ingredients for fancy recipes featured in the GuardianI’m 46. I live in a little village called Monamolin in County Wexford,Ireland. We contain a crossroads, we contain a pub and a shop all combined with two churches, and two graveyards,and that’s it. I’m a civil funeral arranger. Ireland was so devout. Even if you didn’t believe in anything you’d contain a church funeral. The final five years that’s gone out the window. People aren’t being told by the church what to carry out any more. This is where I’ve stepped in. I carry out wish people would turn their phones off, though. You’ll be eulogising somebody and it goes off.
I went to live in England aged 19. I lived in Manchester and I used to go to town on a Saturday, and buy the Guardian,go to a coffee shop and read the whole thing. I was nine years in England and I don’t judge I missed a Saturday. I was there for the Labour victory in 1997, and followed it all through the paper, or then for the years that followed – a huge disappointment.
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Source: theguardian.com