Walk Eighty-six – Ireland – the new silicon valley – ha!

Can you believe this – apparently there is no guaranteed postage service in Ireland and so even if you’ve booked flights, accommodation, services, ashes scattering ceremonies, if you haven’t received the form to give permission to have your loved one cremated, and returned it in time in advance of the cremation, it can’t be done. When you suggest e-mail they say ‘I’ll ask if the crematorium have the e-mail and would they be sending the e-mail to 86 High Street?’ Then, when dictating an e-mail address you have to explain that ‘at’ is the funny ‘a’ with a curl around it. And as for the solicitor sizzling in the white heat of the technology in his offices, he must have worked really hard to create a 9.5mb pdf of a two page black and white document – the most I can manage is about one megabyte when I’m creating a pdf of a 20 page full colour magazine!

Oh and this was an early morning walk before the funeral arranging grindstone!