Sue Le Feuvre

By UrbanDonkey

This is Margaret Neve’s grave…

… in the Brothers’ cemetery. Her greatest claim to fame is her longevity. She lived through the reign of 5 monarchs. George III and IV, William IV, Victoria, Edward VII and her life spanned three centuries, 18th, 19th and 20th. and she lived until the age of 110 years, 321 days. My claim to fame is that I’ve lived in two millennia,  two centuries and during the reign of three Dukes of Normandy George VI, Elizabeth II and Charles III!
She was well and active right up to the end of her amazing life. Further details are here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Ann_Neve
The Brothers’ Cemetery is left to grow wild in the spring so that wild flowers and critters can thrive. Even when tidy up in summer time the flowers are randomly around and about and the vaults and graves are randomly positioned so just in abstract patterns.
Yesterday Ingleman https://www.blipfoto.com/Ingleman told me that his wife’s favourite saying is ‘ she is all as if as though’ I don’t completely understand it but I think it definitely sounds exactly as I feel most of the time;-)

And a better known saying is ‘a can of worms’. The Brothers Cemetery is a haven for wild flowers and critters so there must be plenty of worms busy aerating the soil.
The idiom “opening a can of worms” was said to have originated in the US in the 1950's or earlier, even as early as the 20's. At the time, live bait for fishing used to be stored in metal cans with handles and lids. Once opened, there'd be a mass of wriggling worms inside.

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