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TALKING POINT
Yes – You!
On Saturday 29 July I visited my Mum and Dad’s grave as I do regularly and also a dear friend of mine’s late husband’s
adjacent grave. Decent folk (not you th
ieves) may imagine my distress when I immediately clocked 4 gaps on my friend’s
grave and 1 gap on my Mum and Dad’s. 4 pots of herbs and 1 heavy metal jug – go
ne.
Why? These are not worth anything
at all, except to us.
My
Dad
used
this
jug
in
his
Honey
Parlour
so
it
has
great
emotional
attachment
fo
r
me
as
I
can
visualise
him
using
it
and
it
was
a
great
connection
from
him
to
me.
My
Mum
loved
flowers
so
when
I
filled
it
there
was
a
huge
connection
to
both of them.
My dear friend filled 4 pots (given
by
her husband’s children) with herbs from the garden she and he lovingly shared and
placed them on his grave – a huge emotio
nal connection too.
So – Thieves – you are obviously devoid of any human decency and feeling for anybody but yourselves. But what pleasure
can you possibly get from either a coup
le of quid if you’ve sold these items, or if you’ve kept them? Do you look at th
em and
think how lovely they look – Oh, I’ll just pick some herbs for my pizza tonight – yum
my. They were on som
eo
ne’s grave? –
tough. Oh, these flowers look nice in this jug – pity they are grave goods.
Stealing from graves is the lowest form of theft by the l
owest of the low. PUT THEM BACK NOW!!
To everyone who has loved ones in Cradley Churc
hyard -- please be alert both for your own and others’ graves.
I am. But it
shouldn’t be like this, especially in Cradley – how very sad that it should come to this.
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GRAVE THIEVES!!
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