I am a member of the Fellowship of Professional Celebrants. This gives you the assurance that I am properly trained and insured to conduct funerals.
My experience, not just of conducting funerals, but also of speech writing and public speaking, goes back many years.
He thinks for a moment. “Genuinely, I think the internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation,” he says. “I think it would be very helpful for us to see it as a disaster, see it as something like nuclear weapons or . . . I was going to say the invention of heroin, but morphine is a wonder drug, so there’s an upside to heroin which I really can’t f**king see with the internet. It’s easier to get taxis, but that’s it. It’s addictive. It changes the nature of discourse in a horrible way. What was billed as the democratisation of knowledge has turned into the death of truth.”
If you are interested in spreading some Christmas cheer as part of our festive music programme get in touch! We are looking for choirs and musicians – professional or doing it for fun – to come along on the following dates 14th, 15th, 21st and 22nd December.
A councillor in Glasgow once asked me to help him put a press release together. “Give me your notes then and I’ll do that for you,” I said. “Aw naw, I don’t waant yet tae write it fur me son, jist tae gees a haun wae the wee curly bits.” – Bill Heaney
Moira Stewart is at Jordanhill College School for the launch of John MacLeod’s book ‘Striving Higher’. She tells us that it was lovely to meet up with former staff and pupils. Thank you John for the lovely words you signed in my copy of your book, John.
