Today we said farewell to my Uncle Bill, one of the best natured men that I have ever met. We had planned to spend from Monday to Friday this week in London, and had booked hotel and theatres so when we found out that the funeral was going to be on the Wednesday we decided to use the last of James’ British Airways Avios points to fly to Glasgow and back on the same day. This entailed a very early start to travel on the 06.45 plane to Glasgow from London City Airport, which meant that we were in plenty of time for the funeral at 12. It was a good and personal service and Robin gave a touching eulogy. Then we went to Strathaven Hotel for soup and sandwiches. As is usual at a family funeral we met relatives who are very nice people, and as usual we all agreed that we really should meet up when it’s not for a funeral. Unfortunately time goes by and we never seem to get round to that. It’s a pity. And it’s sad that the reason that many of us will be meeting again in a couple of weeks will be for Jonathan’s funeral.
We said our goodbyes to Katy and Abigail and went back home with Jenn and Russ for a very pleasant couple of hours where more tea was drunk and we chatted until it was time to set off to catch our flights back to London (Jennifer and Russell were flying from Edinburgh to Heathrow.) As we went through security at Glasgow Airport I spotted celebrity Fred Sirieux (from First Dates) who was looking very handsome. Our flight was an hour late but apart from that everything had gone like clockwork. We were very glad to arrive back at our hotel by 11 p.m. What a long day.
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