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It all starts with a phone call late on a Saturday evening, a week before Christmas, to inform him that Edie, his mother, has died. This call sets in motion a series of events that are incredible, hilarious and surreal. And all because Edie wanted to donate her body to medical research.David was determined to fulfil his mum''s wishes but, oh, did he have a few words with her along the way!Edie and Eric, David''s parents, were a curious couple. More different two people couldn''t be - Edie full of fun and mischief, with a wicked and unrestrained sense of humour; Eric with almost no sense of humour, but who unwittingly caused so much warm mirth in his family.Edie would have revelled in the bizarre happenings following her death, but Eric would have been mortified, so would always need protecting from the craziness of it all.And though he was protected from the events following his beloved Edie''s death, he had to face some traumas of his own before he peacefully died nine years later.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
Date de parution	12 décembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528972598
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Edie’s Last Christmas
David Bradshaw
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-12-12
Edie’s Last Christmas About the author Dedication Copyright information © Acknowledgement Eric and Edie: Till Death Do Us Apart Chapter 1 One Fine Day Chapter 2 Heath Cottage Chapter 3 The Light Goes Out Chapter 4 Uncomfortable Bed Fellows Chapter 5 Mission Improbable Chapter 6 Together Again Chapter 7 Some Phone Call Chapter 8 Not the Send-Off Anticipated Chapter 9 Life Goes On Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Chapter 10 Home Alone Chapter 11 From Bad to Good
About the author
David is one of the baby boomers from parents still celebrating the end of the war. Born in Stamford in 1947, the family moved to the country when he was 11 years old to the Wooden House, described in the story, where the most impressionable period of his life was spent. Apart from a brief period in the Merchant Navy, his working life was in Financial Services.
David has dined out many times over the years on this story when it was always greeted with incredulity, humour and warmth.
Dedication
To the memory of Eric and Edie.
Copyright information ©
David Bradshaw (2019)
The right of David Bradshaw to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
ISBN 9781528919135 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781528972598 (ePub e-book)
www.austinmacauley.com
First Published (2019)
Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd
25 Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5LQ
Acknowledgement
Thank you to my brother, John, for his kindness to his parents, despite his Victorian upbringing.
Also, to my wife, Lyn, without whose help, support and, not least, proof reading, this book might never have happened.
Eric and Edie: Till Death Do Us Apart

As a wave from a stormy sea rushing up the beach before its energy is spent and the intensity gone, were how my emotions played out by Edie’s death. The wave retreats back into the sea, just leaving the smooth sand evidence of its existence.
Relief that her ordeal, tinged with sadness for the wasted years in her later life, is over.
The strength of emotions when informed even of an expected death, followed by the acceptance of the event, may not give any visible sign on one person of what is happening inside of him.
The stormy sea almost overwhelmed me as the vertical coffin with Edie’s body slumped inside precariously balanced on the top step, and I alone carried it down. Ending in a tug-o’-war between who did not want the body and the subsequent possibility of her body being returned by the undertaker to me on Christmas Eve. These events occurred in late December, 1988 and provided myself and my family with a Christmas never to be forgotten.
First, however, it is important to introduce our main characters and the events leading up to the bizarre, poignant, funny and true account that many times I have considered committing this tale to paper since this scarcely believable chain of events took place almost 30 years ago.
Chapter 1

One Fine Day
Sometime in the hot summer of 1976 on a regular visit to see my parents, when in their early 70s, I was greeted with somewhat long faces informing me that they had a serious matter to discuss with me. Eric and Edith had decided, as part of their ‘Last Will and Testament’, to donate their bodies to a university for medical research and to have no religious service at any funeral. I quickly established to my own relief that there was no immediate urgency about this decision, they had been mulling it over between themselves for quite some time.
I must admit that I thought it a noble gesture and willingly gave them my support. I would ensure their last wishes were carried out when the day duly arrived. They had, in fact, set up the whole process, completed all the relevant paperwork and presented it to me as a ‘fait accompli’. They explained the procedure I would need to follow on the first and subsequent death and gave me a small briefcase, which I keep to this day, with all the instructions and relevant telephone numbers in. This included a copy of their written and witnessed authority at the university, which formed part of their Last Will and Testament.
It all seemed so simple and easy to put in effect, yet I had this slight difficulty; a nagging question was forming in the back of my mind.

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