Rats show the way to Christmas cheer
In junior high, I watched my teacher drop a rat brain into alcohol, and the alcohol seemed to eat away at the brain. So alcohol kills brain cells, right? Well, not exactly. The alcohol that you drink enters your bloodstream, and doesn’t actually attack your brain directly. Of course, there are other ways for alcohol […]
There is an alternative
Parents of the children of Newtown: Our hearts are with you. We know from experience how lost you must feel. We also know how there is a system in place where you feel you are being kept from the one thing that need above all else – to be with your child. We want you […]
Death sentence passed on graveyard dunny
You loved Millaa Millaa’s coffin-shaped dunny, remember? Well, it’s going to be done in. Built by the Chamber of Commerce on council-owned land, it has been condemned on the trivial grounds that it lacks planning permission and falls foul of any number of building and plumbing regs. 90 per cent of Millaa Millaa’s population petitioned […]
Felt feels fab
Fans of Yuli Somme, who makes the beautiful Leafcocoons, crafts other lovely stuff from her felt offcuts. Nothing goes to waste in her workshop. Here at the GFG-Batesville Shard, when the temperatures drop, we swear by Yuli’s fabulous foot felts — insoles for our shoes. They are brilliantly comfy and cosy — there’s nothing like […]
We should be careful how we leave
“If we are fortunate enough to die consciously, then we should take full advantage of opportunities to create peace for all parties. Our last words and intentions matter so much to those left behind. We should be careful how we leave.”
Modern life
Q: Alright – so I’ve got a dwarf that I thought was awesome who has died. I want to build a nice memorial to him, but he liked coffins (he really did. he even engraved one in the floor =P) and I’d like to stick him in one of those as well. Is that possible? […]
Off with the blinkers
I’ve got a feeling it’s time for a change of direction here at the blog. It doesn’t cost me a great deal of brainpower to keep it going, but it does cost an awful lot of time scouring the internet, panning for gold. Conscientiousness can play funny tricks with a chap. I sit here feeling […]
Intolerant of intolerance
Posted by Richard Rawlinson The picketing of military funerals in the US by the Westboro Baptist cult is well-documented. Less so are increasing incidents in Holland of Muslim youths disrupting non-Muslim funerals. One undertaker says youths on bikes stop processions and bang on the roof of the hearse, shouting ‘One dog less’ or ‘Jews, Jews’. The […]
Nearing the End of Life
If you’ve never seen this little booklet you’ve missed something. It’s a brilliant, brief, warm, intelligent and helpful guide for anyone looking after a dying person — the sorts of things they might expect to have to cope with. The contents contain insights into how a dying person may be feeling; how to talk about what’s happening […]
Another new death mag
The senior management team here at the GFG-Batesville Shard have spoken at some length to Sue White, above, about her new magazine venture, Farewell Magazine. We were impressed. Farewell Magazine is described below in a press release we have just had from her people: Funerals and dying are taboo subjects in today’s society, but one […]
