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 Death Awareness week, including a flurry of media appointments. I don't really like talking about myself, so have let Skeleton Bob or Fred do many of the appointments. But it was all in a good cause of getting people to think about death, come along to one of the two events we're running: Living Well, Dying Well informatio

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 week, I wrote a guest blog for the lovely ladies at Death and the Maiden. Blog post link here. Meanwhile I have also been polishing my interviewing skills to capture fun death stories, more of which will be going on at "Living Well, Dying Well", the Dying for Life event on 11th May 2019, kicking off our season this year. K

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