We are ritual animals and this was the artistic if artless ritual that death invited

Christopher Howse's Notebook

Is it all right to say that I enjoyed the funeral of Patricia Llewellyn, the television producer who turned my old friend Jennifer Paterson into one of the Two Fat Ladies? All the stops were certainly pulled out to make it memorable.

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