i hope the vicar is stoned by the local community <<
You obviously meant to say shunned bellboy ... My Brother up in Kent likes visiting Grave yards and reading (especially very old) Grave stones.
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Very offensive. Typical hypocrisy at work. Don't drink, don't swear, no sex before marriage, etc. Park on a grave? No problem, we can't trace their descendants so it doesn't matter so long as you pay.
Steve.
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I once owned a Vespa (briefly) and my girlfriend at the time was a very committed Christian who was putting me under great pressure to admit I was a `sinner`.
Anyway, the Vespa expired along Church road in North Cave in what was the East Riding Of Yorkshire.
We are in the pull in right outside that beautiful Church and the spark plug was out and resting on the pavement edge after fitting a new one. She said "do we need this" - me "no"
She then promptly tossed the spark plug over the stone wall into the graveyard.
Jane, do you remember?
I stayed a sinner.
Edited by oilrag on 26/06/2009 at 16:02
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Come to think of it, I have story about an erstwhile girlfriend and a churchyard. But as its nothing to do with parking, vicars or motoring I'll leave it there.......
;-)
Edited by Humph Backbridge on 26/06/2009 at 16:14
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>>> I stayed a sinner <<<
There is still time for your redemption Brother oilrag.
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One of my grandchildren still goes to a church primary school complete with church and about half an acre of surviving churchyard, somewhat neglected but with nice big plane trees. I always discouraged nippers under my own influence from running over the gravestone slabs, although I noticed not all parents and minders did although the school is in a quite posh and very rich area. But the school seems to have taken a hand because they don't seem to do it much now, and when they do they run between the slabs.
I used to tell them that it wasn't a really big deal, the dead themselves wouldn't care one way or the other, but just on general principles it was a good idea to show formal respect for the dead because they represent the past, where we come from. I tried to make them read the gravestones with their sometimes poignant records of the very high levels of child mortality in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Edited by Lud on 26/06/2009 at 18:11
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So the owner of this car was so desperate to drive to Wimbledon and park his car that he was prepared to leave it between gravestones.
It's a BMW, now there's a surprise.
No doubt his last car was an Audi, and he's got a Merc on order.
Unless he hits hard times, in which case it will be a VW Passat.
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im surprised they didnt try to bury the story..............thank you i'll be here all week!!
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Quite disgusting, but I think that this has now been exhausted. Put a cap on it or I'll come round and fill you in..........................Yeah yeah, I'm going>>>>>>>
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or I'll come round and fill you in.......................... <<
And shall Trelawny live?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
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I know this church has been charging for parking during the tennis fortnight for at least forty years. The tennis ground is in Church Road and this is the church.
Today I had to go to the Wimbledon area so I took my bicycle to avoid the inevitable traffic. Out of interest I went past the church to see what the situation was today.
I'm glad to report that the parking was restricted to the field next to the church and the small parking area in front of the church.
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I'm glad to report that the parking was restricted to the field next to the church and the small parking area in front of the church.
I wonder how much that field is worth and why some agent/contractor hasn't already done the deal.
I hate modernity...................MD
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>>> I'm glad to report that the parking was restricted to the field next to the church and the small parking area in front of the church. <<<
Good! so he didn't need to get stoned by the local community after all, but I'll wager he manages it anyway (hic!)
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My sisters house backs onto a graveyard, part now grassed over, part still used for burials. The C of E and the vicar have sold the church, which needs repair, and most of the graveyard to a property developer. He wants to turn the church into flats and build numerous houses on the rest.
The remaining small graveyard will have an access road to the flats and houses running through the middle. I think some vicars just aren't that bothered as long as the cash is being handed over. The vicar in the story should be ashamed of herself, in my view.
Edited by tintin01 on 28/06/2009 at 21:24
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