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Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 23 April, 2024, 03:03:56 pm

Title: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 April, 2024, 03:03:56 pm

Here: https://oldparkmeadow.co.uk/

Obituary and funeral guide/donations here: https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/obituaries/121978

It would be good to see forummers coming along in numbers.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Beardy on 23 April, 2024, 03:30:45 pm

I don’t do funerals generally (although I will be at my father I laws funeral on Friday for Dr B), but my thoughts will be with you and your family on that day.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: rogerzilla on 23 April, 2024, 04:59:25 pm

Would be good to see other YACFers there.  Funerals are much underrated IMO - everyone only says nice things, there's usually food, and you don't have to bring a present.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Hot Flatus on 23 April, 2024, 05:57:35 pm

Won't be coming, but I wish you and your family the best.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Jurek on 23 April, 2024, 06:56:09 pm

I plan to be there.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Polar Bear on 23 April, 2024, 07:03:54 pm

Sadly we will be unable to make the trip but Dez and yourselves will also be in our thoughts when we visit Greenhaven just outside Rugby on Saturday 4th to pay our respects to a dear friend who passed away recently.  Family and friends are holding a little remembrance ceremony and planting an oak pole on her grave to match the one on her son's grave which is nearby.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Wowbagger on 30 April, 2024, 04:26:02 pm

There's a video link for anyone interested:

watch.obitus.com

Username: masu8567

Password: 419030

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: barakta on 30 April, 2024, 09:11:01 pm

Thanks for that, I would like to join but I'll be a bit late as I have a student booked in at 1 for a short chat.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: hellymedic on 30 April, 2024, 09:46:57 pm

Apologies. I’ll be on a train.

I had problems watching a funeral live stream on obitus in February 2023, and similar problems watching the playback later.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=114147.msg2788719#msg2788719 (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=114147.msg2788719#msg2788719)
Apologies for hijack!

I’ll be thinking of you all.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: barakta on 30 April, 2024, 10:38:45 pm

Thanks for the warning, I'll give it a try and if it's terrible I'll not stress about it. I agree it's unacceptable for a funeral livestream to be poor, it MATTERS.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: hellymedic on 01 May, 2024, 02:35:21 am

I think it’s an Apple/Safari/OS/Buffering problem.

Might have been resolved with updates.

I am no geek!

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 02 May, 2024, 09:29:26 pm

I am unable to be there tomorrow, Peter.

Thinking of you.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: andrewc on 02 May, 2024, 10:29:56 pm

I'm also unable to travel down, but will be thinking of you all. 

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 02 May, 2024, 11:01:13 pm

Hope it goes as well as it can.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Ruthie on 03 May, 2024, 12:00:00 am

I can’t make it. I will be thinking of you.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: T42 on 03 May, 2024, 07:57:38 am

Sympathies, from afar.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 03 May, 2024, 09:52:21 am

And from not quite so afar.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Robh on 03 May, 2024, 10:14:27 am

Best wishes.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Ian H on 03 May, 2024, 12:13:51 pm

Hope it all goes well.  Best wishes from us.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Regulator on 03 May, 2024, 12:39:51 pm

I'm sorry I can't be there.  Big hugs to you, Jan and the family.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 May, 2024, 04:49:37 pm

Nice eulogies and venue.  Sleep well Dez.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: perpetual dan on 03 May, 2024, 05:56:39 pm

Sorry I couldn’t be there, or watch at the time. Best wishes.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Jaded on 03 May, 2024, 06:02:47 pm

I watched a little, thoughts with all of you.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 03 May, 2024, 06:07:37 pm

Watched most (I found one or two of the eulogies difficult to hear).

Farewell Dez.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Jurek on 03 May, 2024, 08:07:02 pm

I had no idea that Dez was such an outstandingly talented individual.
RIP Dez.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Wowbagger on 03 May, 2024, 08:41:42 pm

Thanks to Tomsk, RZ and Jurek for coming along today. We had a fair number - lots of family, a few friends. We've got a transcript of the eulogies and I shall ask the celebrant to send me a version so that I don't have to scan the paper copies. The video should be available in a few days and I hope to link to that.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: andrewc on 03 May, 2024, 09:04:51 pm

It was a nice service.     Hugs to Jan & yourself Peter. 

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Wowbagger on 07 May, 2024, 11:23:38 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Gkmyi-jhx-g&ab_channel=joshmantube

Some have said they couldn't hear the voices clearly. There's the recording of the service with a transcript (with suitable mistakes).

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: hellymedic on 08 May, 2024, 02:54:54 pm

Seems to display OK, though I’ve had to turn the volume up.
Wonderful service and a great tribute to such a talented and multi-faceted man.

Hoping you are finding strength in these very tough times!

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: barakta on 08 May, 2024, 04:46:26 pm

I watched the funeral service this afternoon, with the sound up and craptions it was manageable.

Thank you so much for sharing. I am glad I watched now and not mid-work as I was able to focus better today (my day off). I didn't know Dez very well, but this place is partly one of his many positive legacies both big and small. I had not realised Dez was the eldest and I laughed at some of the childhood memories and one with Jon and a ladder. The best funerals are those that make you laugh and cry a bit too.

I continue to send much love the way of Dez's close people. A life very fully and well lived.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 May, 2024, 09:30:18 am

I think we should be told exactly what was added to the UKIP poster.

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: Wowbagger on 09 May, 2024, 10:57:07 am

I can scarcely recall that incident. Dez would still have been living here - I would imagine that it was after an alcohol-fuelled evening. Jon and I invariably had A Lot of Beer. Dez didn't drink alcohol. So he would obviously be the ideal candidate to climb a ladder at 1am.

Edit: I have asked Jon.

And the answer: "RACIST SCUM"

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: barakta on 09 May, 2024, 06:12:35 pm

Say it as it is, keep it short and sweet! Good for them!

Title: Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
Post by: rogerzilla on 09 May, 2024, 06:41:36 pm

I was hoping for a Hitler moustache on Farage and an enormous CDC spraying him, but that works too.