Had a good chat with a grave digger today whilst waiting in the pouring rain to bury some ashes.
He was telling me about a time he was told to dig a grave in an old Cemetery and was assured by the Council there were no coffins where he was digging.
As he got down to about 5 feet his shovel made an awful clunk and their, staring back at him,was a Brass Coffin plate. The unusual thing about this was, that the coffin had been buried in 1897 and was still intact and as solid as the day it was buried??
Some Coffins (depending on the ground) last no longer than a year before starting to deteriorate?
Old Glenn Miller did not have that problems if he did go down in the Channel?
So mentioning old GM I though I would set a link to an interview with him. Obviously in B & W, but what a distinguished voice he had. (click on title)
I would like to believe the rumour that his plane went down in the Chilterns and into boggy land. Or more favourably, taking after my name, dropped down dead in a Brothel , which would have changed his famous song to 'In the Nude'
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