Marsden _ Dave's Funeral

In Marsden for Dave's funeral and wake. April 2023. Hazel and Tanya did an excellent job of sorting out funeral plans and admin that goes with it. Hazel cut some Camelia from Daves garden to decorate the coffin. Humanist service in Halifax at delightful crematorium high on hill with blossoming cherry trees all around. I should have taken a photo but didnt seem right at the time. Wake was at local cafe and later at pub beer garden by the riverwith ducks coming into land every so often. Even a fly past by tow low flying jets! Who organised that I wonder?

Dave Smith's 80th Birthday Surprise Party

|Nice day out yesterday with Tony and Pene who drove us to Marsden in South Yorkshire for Dave's surprise birthday party in a cafe run by his nieghbours daughter Katie. Snow held off thankfully though it was mighty cold - brrrrr! We trickled in to the cafe from the pub down the road so he got a surprise gate crasher every few minutes. Nice food and chats. Got back home around 5 - traffic not too bad thankfully. Hazel would never have driven that motorway route - she prefers the long way round via Glossop but it was blocked by snow apparently.

Katie's cafe and in the pub beforehand plotting our surprise entrance to Dave's party.