I'm sure when it comes to funerals and weddings, they seem to think of a number and double it
Thereās a lot to be said for organising and paying for oneās own funeral in advance. Less Ā likely for relatives to be guilt tripped into spending more than we think itās worth. Unfortunately I think, as it looks as if youāre finding, Hostafan, that lots of undertakers and commercial companies have jumped on the bandwagon, and are offering āno frillsā options and still charging disproportionately more than the costs. Have you looked at your local council website for services they offer direct to the public?
I get that @KT53. But the petrol/diesel car requires carbon in its manufacture and then keeps adding to it. So a) does the ten year timeframe include the (real) emissions from the petrol/diesel comparator for the duration of those ten years? and b) the petrol/diesel car is always in carbon debt, from the day it's made through all of the centuries it's plastic headlights spend in landfill.Ā
Burning fossil fuels has to end. Quickly. That's in the car, in the lawnmower, in the scramble bikes the kids play on in the woods at the weekend and in your house. We do have alternatives to all of those. The only zero carbon option is to simply stop driving, mowing, annoying the neighbours and to wear a lot more jumpers. Some of those are more possible than others. The ones that aren't realistic get first dibs on the power we can make cleanly, but 'clean' in that context is not entirely carbon free, and the supply is not infinite, so the amount we use has to be minimised.
If you don't want to see children in the lithium mines, get rid of your car. Don't buy a petrol one and pretend you're doing a Good Thing. If you have to have a car, consider joining campaigns to prevent the children working in the mines, support investment in those countries via overseas aid, write stroppy letters to the battery companies demanding that they use sources of lithium that don't exploit desperate people
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
Soon after we moved to Belgium in 1991 I was asked by a new friend to help her go and choose a buggy for the new baby.Ā It had to fit in the couple's Porsche which had it's boot under the bonnet.Ā Never been in such an uncomfortable car - low down so you can't see much ahead, lousy suspension so you feel every bump and Belgian roads are pretty bumpy in places where they still have pavers and absolutely nowhere to put a clematis!
My dad died at the end of 2005.Ā He was cremated in a cardboard coffin, all organised by his wife - 2nd marriage.Ā Ā I thought it was great.
Yes, we considered a cardboard coffin for my mum - in the end she had a woven willow one, which would have appealed to her as she was good at basket making, among other crafts.Ā The cardboard ones can be coloured or decorated if you want, with pictures personal to the family.Ā Ā
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
aĀ relative works in Glasgow and part of his duties include funerals for those found and unidentified, or found alone at home with no known family, money etc.Ā Less the Ā£200 and the includes 2 from the office to attend the cremation " service "Ā
KT53,it wasn't a written article we were talking about,it's Morgan Sanders, journalist. Weekly programs called "The Truth About.......this one was electric cars. I think ITV
KT53,it wasn't a written article we were talking about,it's Morgan Sanders, journalist. Weekly programs called "The Truth About.......this one was electric cars. I think ITV
Dispatches on Ch4 had a programme about them last week too. "battery degredation" seemed a big issue. "Don't charge over 80%, don't let it go below 20%" Second hand car with 80% charge had a range of 38 miles.Ā
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Have you looked at your local council website for services they offer direct to the public?
Burning fossil fuels has to end. Quickly. That's in the car, in the lawnmower, in the scramble bikes the kids play on in the woods at the weekend and in your house. We do have alternatives to all of those. The only zero carbon option is to simply stop driving, mowing, annoying the neighbours and to wear a lot more jumpers. Some of those are more possible than others. The ones that aren't realistic get first dibs on the power we can make cleanly, but 'clean' in that context is not entirely carbon free, and the supply is not infinite, so the amount we use has to be minimised.
If you don't want to see children in the lithium mines, get rid of your car. Don't buy a petrol one and pretend you're doing a Good Thing. If you have to have a car, consider joining campaigns to prevent the children working in the mines, support investment in those countries via overseas aid, write stroppy letters to the battery companies demanding that they use sources of lithium that don't exploit desperate people
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
My dad died at the end of 2005.Ā He was cremated in a cardboard coffin, all organised by his wife - 2nd marriage.Ā Ā I thought it was great.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cardboard-Coffin-White-6ft-73/dp/B079WV6VJK/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=cardboard+coffins&pd_rd_r=5d2ed9a8-45cd-420a-b9a8-f5c7ddd42b71&pd_rd_w=K1L64&pd_rd_wg=SX84J&pf_rd_p=7651c268-32cc-44fd-b40e-e92ca52cc2d9&pf_rd_r=DS99YSHTZ6WCE6MCGHT7&qid=1638294255&sr=8-1
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Less the Ā£200 and the includes 2 from the office to attend the cremation " service "Ā
https://www.gov.uk/funeral-payments?step-by-step-nav=4f1fe77d-f43b-4581-baf9-e2600e2a2b7aĀ
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"battery degredation" seemed a big issue. "Don't charge over 80%, don't let it go below 20%"
Second hand car with 80% charge had a range of 38 miles.Ā