Delusions of Grandeur

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Delusions of Grandeur is written by Charles Kimber and published by Paragon Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 178222145X (ISBN 10) and 9781782221456 (ISBN 13).

Charles Kimber was an interesting character - an Eton and Balliol educated baronet, socialist, historian, market gardener, pig farmer, publican, and rally driver - with friends of all ages from all over the world who appreciated the scope of his knowledge, his kindness and his sense of humour. Some of this comes across in this intelligently written and insightful book. "When my father died, the day after this book was finished, we found a file on his laptop entitled 'Short cut to Funeral'. He asked to be dumped in a hole in the ground as cheaply as possible in the field behind his house, with a West Indian style wake where his friends would gather for good food and much drink to assess the character of the deceased fairly; good and bad, sinner and saint. I didn't carry out his wishes, mainly because I couldn't see myself asking the matron at Pershore hospital to load his corpse into the front seat of my car, or barrowing the cardboard biodegradable coffin he had stored in the roof of the cowshed across the field. So his ashes went there instead. The wake was a big party in a marquee." Kate Collingwood, daughter