🏴A new experience for us, directly down to the pandemic. We “attend” a streamed funeral. Obviously not a first for the funeral establishment in these days where real life attendance is limited to a very few people, the number varying with the jurisdiction. There are real people at this funeral, mostly Scots relatives, but fewer than a dozen of them. Can see why, despite complaints online, fewer people seem to be permitted to attend funerals than regular church services. Those attending church are less inclined to hug than those at funerals and this one is very restrained. Clearly those sitting together are those who live together and the chairs are placed in sets of two or three at an appropriate distance from each other.
On the other hand, we would have been unlikely to have been able to attend this funeral at all in normal times - unlikely to have found ourselves in the right country.
Some of the best bits missing, of course. The chats, the reminiscing (though there is some in the service), the hugs, the food and drink. Possible, though, at a streamed funeral, to have a wee dram as coffin is piped in to “Scots Wha Hae”. Can see that this might have been badly received at a traditional unstreamed funeral - though don’t think my late cousin would have objected. 🥃🥃
Looks like border shut until July 1. Possible to cross for medical treatment, but Aysel, who owns this place says that those who do have to quarantine when they come back. Her oncologist is in the South but she’s putting off seeing him until July so that she won’t have to be separated from her young daughter by quarantine again.
On the other hand, we would have been unlikely to have been able to attend this funeral at all in normal times - unlikely to have found ourselves in the right country.
Some of the best bits missing, of course. The chats, the reminiscing (though there is some in the service), the hugs, the food and drink. Possible, though, at a streamed funeral, to have a wee dram as coffin is piped in to “Scots Wha Hae”. Can see that this might have been badly received at a traditional unstreamed funeral - though don’t think my late cousin would have objected. 🥃🥃
Looks like border shut until July 1. Possible to cross for medical treatment, but Aysel, who owns this place says that those who do have to quarantine when they come back. Her oncologist is in the South but she’s putting off seeing him until July so that she won’t have to be separated from her young daughter by quarantine again.
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