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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 recent 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 were [...]

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 need? They [...]

The herring gull is a consummate bird, a fact I mention in my 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 much noise that [...]