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Speaker 2: So the last couple of weeks we were in England
Speaker 2: and we went back to see my mum and dad,
Speaker 2: and then we went to a family wedding. My wife
Speaker 2: also was there when she went back to England to
Speaker 2: pick up her dad's ashes. Now, her dad died last
Speaker 2: year and he was cremated and they decided to divvy
Speaker 2: up the ashes amongst three family members. Oh really, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know how they chop him out. I mean, what
Speaker 2: did it like narcos or so they divided him up.
Speaker 2: I don't know whether they weighed him or how.
Speaker 1: Did they do it like a bag of flour. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. Anyway, we got a third of him, I guess,
Speaker 1: and so.
Speaker 2: For two weeks while in the UK, he's in the
Speaker 2: car with us, right and it's in the boot.
Speaker 1: Have the other siblings spread their ashes already? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Third of him got taken to Ireland and was sprinkled there,
Speaker 2: and then Sarah and her sister wanted to sprinkle him
Speaker 2: at the family wedding. So sarah sister it was her
Speaker 2: daughter's getting married. I kept thinking, you know that someone's
Speaker 2: going to want during the big day, which is a
Speaker 2: celebration of a union of the future, isn't it really
Speaker 2: in love? Suddenly someone's getting the old urn out and
Speaker 2: remember old granddad who died last year, he's here, let's
Speaker 2: sprinkle them around. So anyway, come the big day, when
Speaker 2: do you think you're going.
Speaker 1: To spread your dashes? Because everyone's like clinking glasses and cheering.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, I don't think it was a lovely sunny
Speaker 2: day she has I'm gonna have to keep So my
Speaker 2: wife is still England because you've got another wedding to
Speaker 2: go to. And actually you can't keep sprinkling a liket
Speaker 2: the wedding crashes. Oh no, Sarah O'Connell's here with that, earn.
Speaker 1: Don't let her in.
Speaker 2: So she's trying to fight somewhere UK that somehow is
Speaker 2: appropriate to sprinkle her dad's ashes. So I know a
Speaker 2: lot of you when someone passes away, you've got the
Speaker 2: ashes and you want to do something where you're going
Speaker 2: to spread them to.
Speaker 1: You want something special, yeah, special place.
Speaker 2: But sometimes what happens in life where you've got an
Speaker 2: intention or experience, We're going to do this, And in
Speaker 2: life sometimes like the wind changes and you hear stories
Speaker 2: about people who throw some beloved family member up in
Speaker 2: the air and they come back on innocent bystanders faces
Speaker 2: or back in your way. Strange things happens when you're
Speaker 2: sprinkling ashes, like my wife right now driving around the
Speaker 2: UK trying to work out where she can put a
Speaker 2: third of her debt ashes. David, her dad would have
Speaker 2: found this very very funny. I didn't mention, by the way,
Speaker 2: we also, I didn't realize this. We also picked up
Speaker 2: an old dog of ours ashes as well. She's also
Speaker 2: got She's got two owns in the car.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, is she gonna sprinkle at the same place?
Speaker 1: I don't know where they're going to mix them together.
Speaker 1: I don't know. This feels like she'll get to the airport.
Speaker 1: It has to come home, just out the side of
Speaker 1: the aeroplane.
Speaker 2: Don't miss advise two weeks time, if I'm sprinkling ashes
Speaker 2: in a studio, you'll know it's my but de seize,
Speaker 2: father in law and an old dog. All right, So
Speaker 2: where did you sprinkle the ashes? And what happened on
Speaker 2: nine four one four one four three Linda, Good morning.
Speaker 3: Oh, good morning, Christian.
Speaker 1: Welcome to show. Linda. So whose ashes are we talking?
Speaker 1: About who did you lose?
Speaker 3: Well, unfortunately, my husband passed away had he was cremated,
Speaker 3: and we decided I was going on a trip, and
Speaker 3: I thought, well, I'm as well take some of him
Speaker 3: with me.
Speaker 1: So when I.
Speaker 3: Flew from from Australia to America, I sprinkled some ashes
Speaker 3: on the top of the Statue of Liberty. Then we
Speaker 3: climbed onto the Queen Mary Too and sailed off over
Speaker 3: to Southampton. On the way, I sprinkled some ashes of
Speaker 3: his over the top of where the Titanic was supposed
Speaker 3: to be. And when we got into London, I sprinkled
Speaker 3: some of his ashes in the Thames. And finally when
Speaker 3: we arrived in Paris, I took him and sprinkled some
Speaker 3: of his ashes into Money's garden. Then we arrived home,
Speaker 3: and well thought, well, I had to take him with me,
Speaker 3: because I mean, he paid for the trip and the
Speaker 3: rest of his ashes and the poor dog's ashes up
Speaker 3: at Winton Races tracks in Victoria where we used to
Speaker 3: take our racing car. So he's everywhere.
Speaker 1: Which belongs to the world. I love it. So he
Speaker 1: took him basically on a world tour.
Speaker 3: I did well, I mean, as I said, he paid
Speaker 3: for it, So I thought I'd better take him with me.
Speaker 2: And had you talked about this, what would happen in
Speaker 2: an event of anything happening to either of you?
Speaker 1: What you do with the ashes? And my wife and
Speaker 1: I sometimes talk about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I'm supposed to if once I finally pass away,
Speaker 3: my ashes are supposed to be taken up to the
Speaker 3: racetrack where he is.
Speaker 1: Oh so you don't get to do tour? No, you
Speaker 1: just going to go to the track?
Speaker 3: No, Well, who's going to take me?
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, take me with it? Oh?
Speaker 3: We better take one with this now?
Speaker 2: Ah, I see, I thought, because that you don't get
Speaker 2: the world you don't get the World tour, then.
Speaker 4: I've already had it.
Speaker 1: You got to experience in person.
Speaker 2: Tell me this when you weren't doing all these trips. Now,
Speaker 2: what was this traveling in? Was it the urn or
Speaker 2: something else?
Speaker 3: They give you a small container with some of his
Speaker 3: ashes in it, So I thought, oh, okay, well I'll
Speaker 3: just take that that was packed in the luggage. It
Speaker 3: was never picked up on a knew of the security
Speaker 3: checks going through you know, like, what's this white powder?
Speaker 3: A madam nothing?
Speaker 2: So what is this shoved in the container in the
Speaker 2: middle of the suitcase with your unknees and like your
Speaker 2: shorts and T shirts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there sucks and jobs.
Speaker 1: Linda, thank you very much giving us a call. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, have a good day mate.
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Speaker 1: What did you do with the ashes? Leslie?
Speaker 2: We scattered Dad's ashes in Lake King Gibson took the
Speaker 2: boat out how to drink scattered the ashes for show
Speaker 2: and town The next week. My son who was seventh time,
Speaker 2: told the class my part died and we chucked him
Speaker 2: in a lake. Maybe tomorrow we do show and tell stories, Jackie.
Speaker 2: We took my dad. Took mom to Greece to coss
Speaker 2: in an empty vegamite jar. She also down at Eagles
Speaker 2: nest in Inverlock and some of her in her gardens.
Speaker 1: Mary, good morning, Good morning, Mary. What happened with it?
Speaker 1: I'm good man, welcome to the show. So what happened
Speaker 1: with the ashes?
Speaker 4: So we scattered my sister's ashes. She wanted to go
Speaker 4: to monkey Maya Bay in Western Australia.
Speaker 1: Amazing place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we were. When we decided we were going,
Speaker 4: was sort of a family affair. We got to the airport,
Speaker 4: couldn't decide whether you know, she was checking or carry
Speaker 4: on luggage. So we so we weighed her and she
Speaker 4: waited five kilo and I only had seven kilo of
Speaker 4: carry on so I said no, no, no, Lea's.
Speaker 1: The ashes were five kilos.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because it was her whole entire ashes in
Speaker 4: their tub. So yeah, they weighed five kilo and it's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: just stick her in my check in luggage. So we
Speaker 4: put her in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But across the monkey my bay. And when my sister
Speaker 4: was very ill and our medication, she kept saying, I
Speaker 4: want to go to the Opal farm. I want to
Speaker 4: go to the Opal farm. And we thought, you know,
Speaker 4: it was just a medication because you know they mine oples,
Speaker 4: not farm open. So we've gone out on a catamaran
Speaker 4: into the bay. We scattered her ashes and then the
Speaker 4: captain of the catamaran goes, I'll take her across to
Speaker 4: the pearl farm that's in the bay, and we stepped
Speaker 4: onto the ponchain and the captain of the pontain says
Speaker 4: to us, we don't just fire, we farm Opal's as well.
Speaker 4: And we were like, oh, this is where she wants
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she didn't know what she was talking about.
Speaker 4: No, no she didn't, but obviously she did.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, Mary, Mary, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: She called me. That's okay, Bye bye, Let's go to Lindell,
Speaker 1: coome on Lindell.
Speaker 5: Good morning, how are you going?
Speaker 1: I'm good. Hope you having a good day so far?
Speaker 1: And what did you do with the ashes?
Speaker 5: Our mum was a big Elvis fan, and unfortunately Mom
Speaker 5: passed away way too soon and didn't get to go
Speaker 5: to grape Plane, which is one of her lifelong dreams.
Speaker 5: And a few months after she passed, or said to
Speaker 5: one of my sisters and said, one day, I said,
Speaker 5: I'm going to take some of my mom's ashes over there.
Speaker 5: So about ten months later we organized a trip to
Speaker 5: the US and we scattered some of mum dashes in
Speaker 5: grape plans just right near the pool in the garden
Speaker 5: where she loved to sit. She's not swimming in the pool,
Speaker 5: she loves to sit next to a pool. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: try it exactly.
Speaker 1: Now, did you do it secretly?
Speaker 2: Because I imagined there must have lots of people, Well,
Speaker 2: they probably have some ruling where you're not meant to.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right. We we sort of found that out
Speaker 5: after the fact, but when we sort of felt a
Speaker 5: bit guilty, but we just thought, well, you know, like it,
Speaker 5: we're just sort of like jewelry vile. So it wasn't
Speaker 5: you know, a great clump. So we sort of just
Speaker 5: you know, sekly scattered it in there in the in
Speaker 5: the garden and yeah, so Mum's forever at Graceland.
Speaker 1: Now that's amazing.
Speaker 2: So what we do and I pretend to try a
Speaker 2: shoelace and then just chuck into my mum and little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we sort of did that. We sort of
Speaker 5: looking roundomly if anyone was looking the sort of we
Speaker 5: sort of did a flick, you know, intimate time. So yeah,
Speaker 5: so yeah, so that's that's what we did. So yeah,
Speaker 5: we know, had a bit of a bit of a
Speaker 5: cheer afterwards, and you know, yeah, so.
Speaker 1: It was lovely beautiful then now, good on you. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much to give us a call. Christian Connell's
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