Friday night last week while I was still in Sydney, Stu came up from Canberra, and David came over too. Mum did a lamb roast - yum. We did some final checks on the reflections slide show and took it up to the church to test it out and make sure it'd work ok. We also put a good effort in to fix the letter box indicator light switch. We got pretty close - thinking we just needed a new reed switch to be all done.
Saturday morning was Dad's funeral. The church was *packed* - standing room only. The service went well and people laughed at the right places in my slide show. Sadness when the coffin was taken out. Was good to see people like Steve Bull and Peter Neve and Barry Smith, as well as various aunties/uncles/cousins and Chris and Jim as well. There was a light lunch in the hall afterwards which most people stayed for which was nice.
After the funeral, the family type peoples were all invited back to Mum's for a continuation of the wake, and so they could all go through the workshop and garage to see if there was anything they wanted from Dad's hoard. Some people took a few things which was good. Then we toasted Dad, somewhat ironically since he was a teetotaller, and some of us proceeded to get quite merry. We got some chinese for dinner, including Dad's favourite - lemon chicken. David had another go at fixing the letter box, but while the reed switch worked, there was still another issue with the wiring he couldn't sort out. Next time!
Mum got seven large bunches of flowers during the week, which made it look like she was opening a florists shop!
So goodbye Dad, will see you again in heaven!
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