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 and diseased skeletons from medieval times and earlier. And they are beautiful. I mean, ossicles and sutures to die for --> <-- Traces of tree roots leeching minerals from a skull. A beautiful retained frontal (metopic) suture. (I have one of those. It would be top of my osteology dating profile if I ever needed one). And

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 (which had some wonderful re-enactors, one in full leprosy makeup!) and Living Well, Dying Well, (the latter organised through the wonderful - though I may be biased as I helped set it up) Dying for Life! All these events were at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, 2018. Each of these events many new thoughts, conversations, e