Grave cleaning.......

Thanks for all your help again guys and dolls

We have a large grave ... probably 3 or 4 in it ... plus my mom and dads ashes ... plus a memorial to my grandad killed at passiondale ww1 aged late teens ... had a nose some years back when it was opened and theres prob room for a couple more in there now. Families in those days were big church goers, mine were in charge of sunday school, etc.
Thats where it came from ... suppose today it would cost thousands

Suppose one these days I will end up in there one way or another ...LOL

 

Didn't even think about the "modern" writing they put on graves now I was thinking of the carved names where a wire brush would get into the nooks and crannies

You can tell I come from a line of cremations

 

I saw my Maternal Nana once or twice and my Grandad only once (in hospital) These two grandparents are my Dad's. He's the begger who ran away from home in 1913 ish and changed all his names fore and sur without deed poll. Try genealogy with that start!

Cheers, Tony.

 

I don't think that makes you a "sad sack", Our Mandy.

And I do agree on your sentiments re: "still" love.

I have no grave to visit for my loved one's who are no longer in this physical world. But, there are places which hold a special significance. Nor do I make a regular visit, but, I do take time to go to those places periodically and to have some "reflection" time.

I know of some really interesting stories of my Great-grandparents which gives an insight into who they were, and, as a consequence, where some of their genes have been passed down I only know, because my parents spoke of them and passed it on. Thus secures a little bit of immortality for them

 

In our country churchyard many of us like the graves the way they are, as they change over time, with the weather, and with their natural surroundings.
I am always very sad when someone cleans a grave .... your mould and algae may well be lichens, signs of fresh air, which give a beautiful colour to weathered stone.
Time passes, for the living and the dead, and is that not how it should be?

 

My mom and dads "tablet" was placed at the front of the grave some ten years ago and the mould effects the left hand side and you can not read the leading ... looks like giving it a bit of a clean when the weathers better .. the rest is not too bad ... they probably do not make marble to last like they used to .... lol

 

May I thank you on behalf of your wife-she would be glad to be remembered with such devotion.

 

I am suprised that is what Marley commented on in my post/picture. LOL.

 

Straight over her head Oi, Marley, pay attention at the back & stop flicking wet paper with your ruler.