The Anonymous Widower

A Celebration of a Life

Yesterday was Brian‘s funeral in Amersham.  Or more properly, it was a humanist celebration of a life lived well and to the full!

I’ll remember it for ever, just as I’ll remember Brian for all he did for me, both in business and personally in the last few years.

I think though he would have approved of some of the more light-hearted things that were done and said. Someone said, that it was a pity that the funeral cars were Mercedes and not Jaguars, as Brian was very much a fan and had owned several of the latter. I think, he would have hated it, if his funeral had been bland, well-meaning and lacking any humour and fun.

I normally don’t wear a black tie for funerals, but a flowery Ferragamo one, that I bought in Florence, soon after C’s death.  However out of respect for Brian, I did wear black yesterday, but decided to change it just before I left to get the train back to London. I then asked his daughter, if I should have worn it.  She said yes and showed me her nail varnish. She said Brian called it Tart’s Red.  Sometimes when she tried another shade, she’d show it to her father and he’d say, he preferred the Tart’s Red. Yesterday, all his girls, as he called them; his wife, his daughter and two grand-daughters, had had their nails in Tart’s Red in respect for Brian.

But did Brian have the last laugh?

It was said in the service that he was a Spurs supporter.  But coming from Edmonton, this should have been obvious, even if he didn’t tell everybody about it.

I said in an e-mail last night, that I would put a small bet on Spurs to beat Milan in memory of Brian. Spurs won, but I didn’t put the bet on.

February 16, 2011 - Posted by AnonW | World | Death, Family