Perranporth's
local undertaker and builder, Tom Tremewan, was inspired, and designed and made the UK's first bellyboards / surfboards, made out of coffin lids!
He enlists the help of
local undertaker Frank Quinn (Bill Murray) and assistant Buddy Robinson (Lucas Black) to make it happen.
Not exact matches
He'd already been married in Marin, had four kids, got divorced, raised his two sons Mike and Lad (been given the «mother of the year» award by his
local PTA), discovered the woman next door had cancer (they'd been having an affair while he was married to his first wife, who'd moved to Hawaii with his two daughters), married her, watched her die in their bed, taken a shower, called the
undertaker, buried her, and a few years short of fifty, moved into this massive, six - apartment - sized penthouse apartment by himself.
While US & UK retailers migrated out of town, Irish forecourts remained part of the
local fabric in small towns & villages — prices may not have been the sharpest, but service was personal & friendly, and their offering often expanded to include fresh food, plus a grocery shop, chipper, pub, garage, car dealership, etc. [After all, a grocery shop, pub &
undertakers in a single establishment was not unusual years ago!].