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Mark Taylor
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Humanist Funeral Celebrant in the West Midlands
May 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Some pretty impressive steelwork going in for HS2, just outside Curzon Street Station in Birmingham.
April 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
April 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
April 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Not Coronation Street but still gtitty, northern and frosty.
January 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
We appear to have a small flock of sheep in our hotel.
January 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What sort of music do you have in a Humanist funeral?
Whatever you like! You can have anything from Meatloaf to Mozart, Elgar to Elvis, The Beatles to Beethoven or anything inbetween.
You’re the person planning the ceremony and you get to choose.

www.humanist.org.uk/marktaylor
January 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Our little summer house - the perfect place for the two of us to have a lazy lunchtime picnic... in the summer!
January 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Almost as good as the hot version on Christmas Day, cold turkey put into a sandwich with stuffing, salt and pepper is one of the best treats of the season.
December 26, 2024 at 2:22 PM
December 14, 2024 at 11:43 PM
I came across this plate a few days ago. It seems to show two archers, possibly wearing skull masks, shooting arrows at a bowl of fruit. So many questions...
December 6, 2024 at 9:52 AM
A cold, frosty and slightly snowy morning but the sun's shining, we're generating a little bit of electricity and we haven't got to go anywhere.
November 20, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Enough to look nice but not enough to disrupt the day.
I have a funeral ceremony to take this afternoon and I won't have to worry about getting there. As for the family, that's another matter; they have further to travel.
November 19, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Monday is the hardest day of the week. It's also the loveliest day of the week.
Monday is the day we look after our three-year-old grandson. You can't get better than that!
November 18, 2024 at 9:47 AM
Like our lives, a once magnificent tree rots, but nothing is lost and nothing is wasted. The fungus that produces the mushrooms recycles the stump and the roots, releasing its chemicals and freeing the space it once filled.
As Tim Rice puts it

It's the circle of life
And it moves us all

#humanist
November 16, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I've just managed to bring one of our wedding presents back to life after it stopped working - only forty years!
November 15, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The turn of the screw!
November 1, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Well, I wouldn't have thought it possible but here is a wooden keycard for my hotel room.
October 20, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Maybe my predictions for the onset of winter, earlier this week, were a little premature!
October 18, 2024 at 9:20 AM
When it is a dark, grey mid October day, it's easy to imagine that this will be the weather for the next five months. Hopefully, the reality will be a little different.
October 15, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Dark skies over Bournemouth.
October 3, 2024 at 6:12 PM
September 28, 2024 at 7:11 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,142,430!
September 28, 2024 at 7:08 AM
A lovely celing painted with the major constellations from a time when most people felt they had little agency in their own lives. Humanism is the confidence that we have that agency and that we are our own arbiters of right and wrong, rather than a supernatural entity.

#humanism #celebrant
September 10, 2024 at 10:11 AM
You could almost believe that it's snowed!
September 8, 2024 at 9:17 PM