Sorry it's been a while since I wrote a blog post - things have been going on with family. And I've been doing some drawing. And might have some death things...

Last month was four weekends of Open Studios - and what fun it was! Visitors included a number of professionals - an archaeologist, an anatomist, quite a few...

This month, I have spent a lot of time at The Book Warren in Willingham (where the lovely Lindsay not only offers a dizzying selection of delectable delights...

Death Fest time is here again! Okay, so we never officially called it that. Instead, this month, I've been helping put the final touches of preparation for D...

As arrangements for the Dying for Life event "Things to do when you're dead"* are hotting up, I'm getting out and about talking to people about death. Last w...

This week I went to a talk at Zoology on Palaeognaths. (I spent much of the week guessing what Palaeognaths were... I knew I'd seen the term in the museum......

Goodness December was filled with depressing amounts of lying resting on the sofa. Starting to climb out of the fug now, and get active with lots of dead thi...

Quick post as I'm up to my eyeballs editing skeleton photos. The local friendly archaeologist has been giving me great access to be able to document normal a...

This month I have been to a number of Death Awareness events: From Selfies to Runes, how do we want to be remembered? Face to Face with Medieval Cambridge (w...

The Zoology Museum in Cambridge is now fully open! (Okay, that's been true for a couple of months, but I've been a bit run down and gotten behind.) The lower...

Also at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this month (only till 23 September) are some original photos of the tomb of Tutankhamen! Tutankhamen has a...

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) has an exhibition based on the Star Carr finds. If you're not familiar with it, it is the main source of our...

As I tidy my house (which is a fairly rare occurrence), I found a third drawing of the taxidermy cases of Ipswich Museum from back in 2017. It was meant to b...

As part of a couple of days working with the Museum Detox/Museum Remix teams, I finally made a visit to the Museum of Classical Archaeology (MOCA), which I t...

Having spent a lot of time in the newly re-opened Zoology Museum, I have recently been looking at Armadillos. Googling them, I see one of the commonly asked ...

A quick note to say, if you haven't been lucky enough to receive a panacea cure (available by post up until 2012) from the immortal prophet Octavia (1866-193...

I interrupt myself and my series on the lovely Ipswich museum with this urgent seasonal message. I had a lovely tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum with the ever ...

When you hang around museums and their interesting people, you hear some odd things. Most of these raise more questions than they answer. Me to a fellow arti...

A belated write up of a lovely afternoon spent in the company of curious beasts at the Whipple Museum as part of Open Cambridge. These lovely beasts, I'm sur...

A very quick post (as I'm still exhausted) to say how brilliant the Dying for Life Event was. Over 150 people came to chat about dying, meet the skeletons an...