Sorry to read that.
Hope you and your family are coping okay.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sat 14 May 2011, 18:57, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Thanks, we are most of the time
Still rather hard to believe that he's gone, but it comes to us all I suppose. Shame really - he'd have loved the wake. :)
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 14 May 2011, 19:01, Reply)

All the best to you
Hope Tuesday goes as well as it possibly can.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Sat 14 May 2011, 19:03, Reply)

Thanks, I'm sure it'll be a very mixed day - a few tears but a lot of laughs too

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 14 May 2011, 19:05, Reply)

I'd love to add something else to this to convey additional sympathy but I'm not articulate enough.
I hope the funeral provides a bit of closure and the wake is a great celebration of his life.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Sat 14 May 2011, 19:04, Reply)

It's hard, isn't it to say the 'right thing' when someone has died
especially when it's someone's parent. My dad was 70 so he'd had a good long life, he died with all of us around him and it was fairly sudden so from his point of view, ideal.
I do think as a society we tend to avoid death - either talking about it or dealing with it. He was the first dead body I'd ever seen and I was surprised at how normal it all felt. A tragedy for us as a family, certainly, but not a tragedy in the same way as when a child or someone young dies.
I miss the old bugger but I was lucky to have him around for as long as I did - plenty of people haven't had a dad as good.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 14 May 2011, 19:09, Reply)

If it helps at all, this is the perfect time to score, you'd totally get away with having an affair or two...
... can't do that for too long, I reckon you've got about 2 months worth of potential action if you play it right.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 14 May 2011, 20:21, Reply)

Advantages to having a dead dad, by gonz.
- More corner pieces of sheppard's pie, lasagnia or other baked goods
- When having home made chips, the left over ones because there were too many made to fit on everyone's plate, are totally yours.
- The ratio of non-broken egg yolks goes in your favour.
- Waaay more aspagous
- Get to watch hollyoaks on both normal _and_ E4.

Although you have to put up with ma' deleting everything you wanted off the sky box because it's on 25% full and ITV3 have some detective show based in some backwards village in the arse end of no where on.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sat 14 May 2011, 20:39, Reply)