AN e-mail arrived from a trusted colleague who remarked that “someone has just sent me this – it looks like the kind of thing that Brakespeare reads at bedtime”.

Actually, I read it before dawn but no matter, it contained a link to a website run by www.wesyleymusic.co.uk

“When you click on it, go to Music Library,” they suggested. “Scroll down to Fenland Crematorium. If the song requested isn’t there, then the undertaker can have it downloaded from the Wesley Music version of iTunes to the chosen crematorium.”

As my colleague added: “Happy choosing.”