Ways With Weirds
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Ru Callender. Undertaker, ritualist, raver and author of "What Remains? Life death and the human art of undertaking." Described as "Best undertakers of all time, by a country mile." by Charles Cowling of Good Funeral Guide.
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We're going to need a bigger Hague.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
We're going to need a bigger Hague.
See for yourself, listen for yourself, think for yourself.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
See for yourself, listen for yourself, think for yourself.
I have a friend who is a palliative care nurse who is as brilliant and gifted and comically kind as this character. Pray you meet one of these edge of the village don’t give a fuck healers should you be dying like this.
I'd quite forgotten how amazing this scene (and Paula Pell's performance) is.
If anyone needs to know what dying from cancer is like (for the last month of life) this scene featuring Paula Pell as a hospice nurse from Dying for Sex explains it beautifully.
youtu.be/i8a0pUaCGQU?...
youtu.be/i8a0pUaCGQU?...
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I have a friend who is a palliative care nurse who is as brilliant and gifted and comically kind as this character. Pray you meet one of these edge of the village don’t give a fuck healers should you be dying like this.
Continuing with the mildly blasphemous posts, (please don’t be offended, British “humour”) kitchen nativity mural, with myself, my wife and her daughter as three wise thems, my dog as Mary, and our elderly malevolent cat as what is clearly the Antichrist. Someone call Peter Theil. They’re heeeerre.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Continuing with the mildly blasphemous posts, (please don’t be offended, British “humour”) kitchen nativity mural, with myself, my wife and her daughter as three wise thems, my dog as Mary, and our elderly malevolent cat as what is clearly the Antichrist. Someone call Peter Theil. They’re heeeerre.
What a Gede Christmas looks like.
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What a Gede Christmas looks like.
Today we opened our premises for an all day vigil for lovely Lindsey Stewart. I idly opened the Guardian and lo, there she was. A few members of The Threshold Choir sung to her in our chapel of rest. Incredibly moving.
‘He was struggling with his breath. I sat beside him and sang’: the choir who sing to people on their deathbeds
Just as lullabies send babies to sleep, so songs can help those at the other end of life on their way. The leader of a Threshold Choir reveals what they do – and the personal tragedies that convinced ...
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Today we opened our premises for an all day vigil for lovely Lindsey Stewart. I idly opened the Guardian and lo, there she was. A few members of The Threshold Choir sung to her in our chapel of rest. Incredibly moving.
An American funeral on Dartmoor. Ceremony in an old cow barn, burial in the churchyard. Coffin made by boat builder son.
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
An American funeral on Dartmoor. Ceremony in an old cow barn, burial in the churchyard. Coffin made by boat builder son.
Nice thoughtful interview with Popsa.
Rupert Callender: The Undertaker Rethinking Memory and Grief
Meet Rupert Callender – an undertaker transforming grief into communal memory through rituals and storytelling.
popsa.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Nice thoughtful interview with Popsa.
Still life with Kesey and Thompson.
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Still life with Kesey and Thompson.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My publisher warned me that Good Reads reviews can be brutal, and then there is something like this, from Professor Tara Brabazon, former Dean of Charles Darwin University, Australia. If you’re still struggling for that festive morbid gift.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My publisher warned me that Good Reads reviews can be brutal, and then there is something like this, from Professor Tara Brabazon, former Dean of Charles Darwin University, Australia. If you’re still struggling for that festive morbid gift.
The Ancestor’s Fire burns at Sharpham Meadow whilst the grave is slowly filled by family.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Ancestor’s Fire burns at Sharpham Meadow whilst the grave is slowly filled by family.
Happy Birthday William Blake. This Blake print of Christ’s tomb being opened hangs in our chapel of rest. Bonus reflection of my colleague in the doorway.
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy Birthday William Blake. This Blake print of Christ’s tomb being opened hangs in our chapel of rest. Bonus reflection of my colleague in the doorway.
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"Beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders, crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite deep."
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders, crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite deep."
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
Nice to know that my work of 25 years as a groundbreaking green undertaker here in the UK, and the spread of that message through my memoir has reached the US Janitor Industry. Nice to see only part time. Ripples people. Making global ripples.
November 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nice to know that my work of 25 years as a groundbreaking green undertaker here in the UK, and the spread of that message through my memoir has reached the US Janitor Industry. Nice to see only part time. Ripples people. Making global ripples.
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An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.
I have been lucky enough to “do” Lewes with Mike Jay several times. Still got the scars.
November 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I have been lucky enough to “do” Lewes with Mike Jay several times. Still got the scars.
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Gilbert de Chambertrand. Parisian street, 1935.
November 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Gilbert de Chambertrand. Parisian street, 1935.
Happy Halloween from Uncle Bill.
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Happy Halloween from Uncle Bill.
Through the eye of the cremator.
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Through the eye of the cremator.
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at our phones.”
October 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at our phones.”
Really enjoyed talking about the People’s Pyramid at Rough Trade in my adopted hometown of Liverpool. Nicely chaired by Prof Annabelle Pollen, with Steve from L13 gallery and Johnny from Sports Banger. Thanks to friends and relatives who came.
October 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Really enjoyed talking about the People’s Pyramid at Rough Trade in my adopted hometown of Liverpool. Nicely chaired by Prof Annabelle Pollen, with Steve from L13 gallery and Johnny from Sports Banger. Thanks to friends and relatives who came.