Today I want to finish writing the eulogy for my mum’s funeral, and also print and bind the Order of Service. Before I can do any printing, I need to get some card to print on, so my wife and I head off to Taverham to buy some.
30 copies of the Order of Service, 2 pieces of A4 card per booklet, printed both sides, means 120 pages to print. It takes far longer than I anticipate, especially because the card is borderline on being too thick for the printer, so I end up feeding each page through by hand. My wife makes an excellent job of binding the booklets, hand stitching them together.
With that job done, I concentrate on finishing the eulogy. I email mum’s sister to get some more information on their childhood, and then rewrite sections of it – I originally wrote the eulogy from my perspective, because I intended to read it. I have now realised that there’s absolutely no way that I can read it, so one of my nephews has volunteered to do so, and I need it to make sense when he reads it from his perspective!
I finish writing at a shade before midnight, and email copies to my nephew and the lady who will be officiating at the ceremony.