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Resonox
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Re: Houses for the dead...what about the living?
Sep 09, 2010, 17:46
Sanctuary wrote:

This was in a proper grave with a written headstone...'Here Lyeth...etc' date of birth/death etc so no mystery attached to it. Across the lane was a small chapel so we approached the man in black and told him about it. He had a very modern approach to it all and said that if we notified the authorities they would stop us building for a short while and as it was a mate of his that owned the house he would come and collect the remains and re-bury them for us in the same garden. And that's exactly what he did under a hole a labourer dug under an apple tree. He gave a short prayer and that was it, job done!
It was the headstone that came out of the ground first like something out of a horror movie when the leveller on the Bobcat struck the top corner of it


Sorry that doesn't make any difference...just think if Fred West had just put some pre-stressed headstones with fancy olde worlde writing and false dates on them and made out they were victorian lasses..the local constabulary wouldn't have been able to touch him.
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