And the coffin was made by… Greenfield
You saw it here first. Yeah, well okay, you first saw it here. Hayley’s coffin was, we can now reveal, made by Will Hunneybel and his team at Greenfield Creations. As I write, (9.08) you could boil an egg on Will’s servers and the GFG coffins page is going bananas. A good day for the […]
Then as now
A minimalist funeral reported in the Leinster Express, 1914: The funeral of the Rev. T. Pym Williamson, for 45 years vicar of Thelwell, near Warrington, was conducted in accordance with his desire that it should be marked by the utmost simplicity. He wished for nothing more than what would be accorded to any of his […]
Being A Man
Posted by MC I am not a new man, according to my wife. To qualify as someone who is even slightly in touch with his feminine side, I would have to empty the kitchen bin. Without being asked. It’s not an especially good time to be a man. I knew we were in trouble when I […]
Undertaker’s windows: the Individual Funeral Company
The Individual Funeral Company is a young business in Oxford run by Lucy Jane. At one time she rode motorbike hearses for Paul Sinclair. Lucy recently took on a new member of staff, ‘paw-bearer’ Joplin. Joplin is a French bulldog and has made a great hit with passers-by, many of who have hurtled through the […]
Undertakers’ windows: Heaven On Earth
Believe it or not, this beautiful undertaker’s window is full of the iconography of death. Heaven on Earth is in the city of Bristol and is run by Paula Rainey-Crofts and Simon Durgan. It is one of the pioneer ‘alternative’ undertakers. (There has to be a better term than ‘alternative’, what is it?) Urbi et orbi = […]
