Hi Sue,
Perhaps Scarborough is a little too impersonal, as well as being far away, even if it was a place you both enjoyed visiting. The cricket pitch sounds really good for you, because you will be able to visit easily, walking and talking as you traverse the ground… although you might want to talk internally if there is a match on… 😉 and for Michael, it sounds as if he was relaxed and at peace while watching the cricket… that's a good start for him and a restful resting place. Not the Major Oak please :-0 he would certainly get no peace there.
I have expressed my wishes… I want my ashes interred beneath the roots of an apple tree, a sapling selected by Janet, in the grounds of my Grandmother's old farm in the Preseli Mountains of North Pembrokeshire. I love that place, with its views looking down at the bays around the coast and out over the Irish Sea… I spent some of the happiest days of my childhood there and it is the location of my second novel… which I need to finish sooner rather than too late.
I am sure your decision, when made, will make the girls feel as if their Dad is at rest… at the moment the urn is a constant reminder and perhaps that is why they want him to be 'free'.
Wishing you all the best wherever, whenever… you will know. 🙂
Dai.
