Grace’s funeral yesterday was beautiful .The theme running through it was ‘Love’.
But the bit that made me laugh out loud was when her youngest son Philip( my age ) told the story of how Grace took him and his friend ,both aged around 11 ,to see the musical ‘Hair ‘ .They had no idea of the show they were going to see and were confronted with full-blown nudity and the audience singing merrily along to ‘Sodomy’ .
For anyone who doesn’t know the musical ,google the words – there aren’t many of them and it’s guaranteed not to be the next high school production
Then post afternoon tea in the church hall , 17 of us went out for a slap up Italian meal , and raised our glasses…and more glasses…and more glasses to Auntie Grace .It was very fitting for the youngest Brown ( although she became a Jolowicz )