Homeless. By Uncle Monty.

They Died Homeless.

By Uncle Monty.

Photos By Alex Albion.
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Death makes us all homeless whether we
have a home or not during our earthly life.

We all then find a new and permanent home

either at our grave or at our cremation
that then becomes timeless or forever

and a day.
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The New Music Group w/Caroline Griffin,

John Deacon, and Alastair Murray.

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Death has been on my mind for the past few weeks
due to writing firstly about the awful death of

my dear friend Pravin Mandalia and secondly

about Anita Roddick, the late greedy green

goddess and money worshipper known as

“The Dame of The Body Shop.”
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Beyond her, my mind this past week then

became focussed on the homeless dead as I

attended the 18th Annual Commemoration

Service to them held as always at the renowned

Anglican and restored St. Martin-in-the-Fields
at London’s Traflagar Square.
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Placing Peace Doves on St. Martin's Tapestry.

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From the lovely instrumentation of The New
Music Group to the kind words of friendship

spoken by Roger Shaljean at his reading of his

late wife Kath’s poem – “The Blanket of Friends”

- to the biblical sounds of Father Pradraig Regan

and the splendid reading of Romans 8.35-39

by Major Valerie Mercer, Chaplain, London’s
Booth House, The Salvation Army, all really
gave this year’s Service of Commemoration to
the Homeless Dead a very special robe of respect.

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I was truly impressed and quietly moved as I sat

with the gathering of perhaps 250 to 300 other

persons also present with me. Such was a very

far cry from the mercantile, godless, and left-

wing political owners of The Big Issue that
really don’t care a damn about the homeless

living or the homeless dead despite the fancy

words coming out of the lousey mouths of

crummy Peter and John Bird of The Big Issue.
No wonder the homeless service has never in-
vite them to participate at St. Martin’s. I cer-

tainly would never invite The Bird Brothers

that's for sure!!

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Major Valerie Mercer, Chaplain, London's

Booth House, The Salvation Army.

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Four blocks of names of the homeless dead
were read out with great care. This year’s
list of names was thankfully much less than
in previous years, although any list is al-

ways too long of those without a home at
their death on the streets, or at the hostel,
or at the hospital, or at some horrible
accident, or worse still at their murder!!
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St. Martin's Priest-in-Charge Rev'd

Richard Carter, who officiated at service.

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Without wanting to sound over monument-

alized and repetitious, I again call for a National

Homelessness Day in the UK and aside from

the recognised Homeless Sunday that is

annually-held at the last Sunday of each

January by a growing number of British

Churches and active faith groups.
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St. Martin's Restoration Cost £36 million

(US$57 million) and shown herein is a

lovely example of such that graced the

Commemoration Service for the

Homeless Dead, 2010.

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Lovely Sally Leigh with Uncle Monty (shown
below) at London's St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Sally, who represents the Christain ministry
of Housing Justice, beautifully read a block of
names during the interdenominational service.
It was good to see Sally again, I must say!!
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I didn’t recognise this time any representative,
if any, from The Big Issue at the service. The last
time I was there, Big Issue staffer Steve Farrell
Wood was also there, but only to fall asleep during
the service to the homeless dead despite him
having been homeless and a Big Issue vendor he
obviously just didn’t care a hoot. I saw four or
so vendors and ex-vendors present at this year’s
90 minute service. I also saw there one so-called
“de-badge” Big Issue vendor, who happened to
be me due entirely to cold sods Peter and John
Bird of The Big Issue. At the service and at the
post-service reception, three or four folkz
stopped me to tell me that they’d already heard
or read of what The Bird Brothers had done so
callously to me of now some 6 months ago. I'm
still waiting in vain for my Long Acre pitch to
be restored to me!! But it looks like Christmas
will come and go without any godly goodness
coming from The Bird Brothers to me. One
guy after the service almost spit at the
disrespected name of John Bird!! I felt
like doing it myself, too.
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Ireland's young (and homeless) flee abroad as
economic meltdown looms. Many young people
are seeking to emigrate rather than face a life of
hardship as the republic lurches towards financial
collapse. By David Sharrock in Dublin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/14/ireland-economic-crisis
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Always respecting the living and
homeless dead, Uncle Monty.
+Remembrance Sunday, 2010.
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After the St. Martin Service, I later spent the even-

ing at the also deeply Anglican Order of St. Lazarus

Concert at Cadogan Hall to raise funds against the

scourge of leprosy, which affects about 15 million

people around the globe. While I missed meeting

Sir Anthony and Lady Readon Smith, who had

already gone home by the end of the concert, I

was fortunate to spend sometime instead with the

Grand Prior of the Order, the Rt. Hon. 13th Lord

Ferrers, P.C. Along with the Chaplain-General

Rev’d Canon David Skeoch, the Archdeacon of

Plymouth Rev'd Ian Calders, Orion conductor

Toby Purser, and Bulgaria’s leading concert

pianist Valentina Seferinova, who was brillant

and passionate as she played at the grand piano

at the guilded Cadogan Hall. What a fabulous

evening I had!! Praise the Good Lord ...
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Poppy Day. By Uncle Monty.
http://thebiggerissueorg.blogspot.com/2010/11/poppy-by-uncle-monty.html
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