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Wednesday, August 02, 2023
A peaceful death
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Actor Richard E Grant's account of the death of his wife Joan is lovely. She died at home, with him beside her, holding her hand, after...
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Pronouns
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There's currently a craze for preferred pronouns, which means that people who've adopted a gender identity expect others to refer to...
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Names
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A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I was going to write about dead-naming. So I am, but first, a bit about names in general. I was named...
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Morbid? Me?
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A friend who lives miles away emails often, expecting replies promptly, the way people used to write letters every day when the post was a p...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
My 15 minutes of fame, and what it was about
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell A post I wrote over a...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Jemima
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There are broken bits of commemorative stonework lying around the village church walls. It's sad to see memorials for those who died y...
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Monday, June 18, 2018
Body snatchers, and how they were thwarted
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Mortsafe in Towie churchyard, Aberdeenshire Before the Anatomy Act of 1832, trainee doctors and surgeons relied on body-snatchers to sup...
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