A very long day! Gill ordered a taxi for 3.30am as we had booked train tickets for the 4am service to Manchester. Nice taxi driver. Pretty quiet train, got into Manchester around 6am and had half an hour to wait until the Swansea train, which took 4 1/2 hours to get there, and we got a taxi to the church in Killay and arrived just as the vicar was beginning his spiel.
Gill's Uncle George Carson Sambrook was obviously a popular man as the church was completely full. He also had plenty of family. That service was dire, for me, although the hymns were sung with gusto.
Robert, Jane's son, and his wife Leonie, gave us a lift to the crematorium, which again was really full, and a dreadful service. However the wake in the Black Boy back in Killay was much better.
Gill enjoyed meeting long lost relatives and I chatted to a few people but tried to be low key.
We got a lift to the station at about 4.30 but our train wasn't until 5.50, but we chatted and snoozed.
The journey back was pretty for the first couple of hours but after dark, boring. Got into York at 12.20.
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