As a woman, I can really appreciate many of the inventions since the victorian period! There are some things I love about that period, but I wouldn't want to be a woman without money (and maids and servants) during that time. :o)



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>>>>>- The last sentence is superfluous - who she was was "Beloved Mother" and what she meant to them was "Beloved Mother" - obviously, so George is not too bright.
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>>>>Let me think about that. Interesting thought.
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>>>I personally thought that last sentence was a little odd myself. I didn't quite "get it".
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>>OK. On this point I am feeling a little stubborn. It's all about tone and that's what I was trying to establish.
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>There's a bone orchard right close to where I work, where I often have my lunch. If I'm agitated, or the grass is too wet to sit on, I often have a stroll reading the gravestones. It's never occurred to me to ask those qurestions of the headstone buyer. I'm more interested in the shortage of life back in the Victorian period (and thinking how lucky I am now not to have just a few years left, on average); how some seem to exhibit remarkable longevity for the period; how strange to see a husband and wife in the same hole, yet he was older than her and outlived her by decades - thus how did she die? from disease; how sad to see young children in the graves with their parents (haveing preceded them); how the lichen have grown on the stones; how some graves from within the last few deceades are still tended and not forgotten; usw.
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>You see, I have some experience of musing at gravestones :-)