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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:18am |
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Sir Ed's funeral?
We've got it on the TV with the radio coverage going...looks like it will be a sad one :o(
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:19am |
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Yup, it's on as background while the girls (I've got O with me today) are making a fort or something in the middle of the lounge. Are you at home or work today?
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:22am |
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I'm at work...lucky I'm not on the phones today!! I can watch and listen.
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:39am |
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yeah, we are watching. keep thinking I might have to turn it off cos I keep crying!!!
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:44am |
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I'd cry if I thought I could get away with it!!!
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:45am |
Yep we are watching it, and recording it on My Sky.
Nyah is transfixed on it. She doesn't understand that it's someone's grandad that has died, when her grandad's are all alive 
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 12:52pm |
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Not me, I'm at work
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:06pm |
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It is wonderful.
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:11pm |
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It is....I would so cry if I wasn't at work!
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:34pm |
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It's been good.....if a funeral can be. I've had some interesting discussions with two 6 year olds about death and families etc. Glad I'm off work this week so am able to watch.
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:37pm |
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The piping out and the haka was beautiful!!
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:40pm |
Loved that too Paws 
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:42pm |
aww I've got some tear action going on as well. Jake asked what it was and I said its sayig goodbye to Sir Ed, and he kept going 'bye Sir Ed, Bye...
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 2:02pm |
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Just went down and saw the processional first hand. People clapped him down Khyber pass, like a mexican wave - it made my hair lift a little off my head. There look to be thousands of people out there.
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 2:14pm |
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They showed the procession through town on tv, it was amazing, so many people. Even after the huge downpour!
Man, i shed plenty of tears through the whole thing, but that haka after the piper did me in completely.
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 2:45pm |
I'm go gutted I missed most of it . One little person didn't want to be at home so we went for a walk instead.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 4:32pm |
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I recorded the rest of it on My Sky as we had to go out. So Conor is fast forwarding it for me so I can see the Haka etc... I'm amazed at the amount of people who braved the elements to farewell him, that's just awesome.
RIP.
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 9:09pm |
I managed to see the highlights on TV just before the news it was so nice the haka and the piper.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 9:10pm |
One thing I did like was that Sky News Australia and the BBC had the coverage on their news channels, so my parents were able to watch it on Sky News (it was the TVNZ coverage).
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 22 January 2008 at 9:11pm |
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I'm glad I didn't watch it coz just watching the highlights this evening, and listening to the Gov Gen read For Everything there is a Season had me in tears, I would have been sobbing like a baby if I'd watched the whole thing.
I must say tho it was a very fitting tribute, and shame on Nepal for their appalling lack of respect and action.
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