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There has been a steady growth in Direct Cremation these past few years. In case you don’t know, this process reverses the traditional cremation funeral. This usually involves placing the [...]

In my forthcoming book, Zuri is my protagonist. As a young girl, she moves from the village we now call Martin, situated above Fordingbridge, to live down on the River Avon. The farming families [...]

Links seem to dominate my life these days. Every post on this blog must have links, internal and external, if I want to be ranked by Google. It appears I must show the reader how I relate each [...]

I want to come clean, to be the honest pensioner blogger. I am not plugging products like Zoella, Rita Ora or Alexa Chung, whoever they are. It appears that the Competition and Markets Authority [...]

My Pagan Ancestor Zuri, in 2200 BC, is shocked at our carelessness. I explained to her how we had overcome most of those diseases that had killed her people. Not least was the discovery of [...]

Can humans see in the dark? The answer is probably yes but when do we ever try? I recall doing the 50 mile, Long Mynd Hike in Shropshire. It started at 3pm to ensure that you walked overnight. I [...]

If there is one aspect of current funerals that impresses me, then it must be the role of the funeral celebrant. Thirty years ago they were a very rare breed. A few Humanist celebrants existed [...]

As much as I love science, the world appears to have too many experts. The van Tulleken twins, both doctors, have studied various UK twins. The question was,’how much sleep do we [...]

The herring gull is a consummate bird, a fact I mention in my forthcoming book. I lie in bed at night listening to them calling, out on the surf. What is it they eat in the dark? They make so [...]