Ways With Weirds
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Ru Callender. Undertaker, ritualist, raver and author of "What Remains? Life death and the human art of undertaking." Described as "Best undertakers of all time, by a country mile." by Charles Cowling of Good Funeral Guide.
The unknown ancestor. A photograph I picked up at a stall in the souk at Marrakech. Good to bring in strangers to your family altar. Also a fossil predecessor, an ammonite I found on the same trip.
February 3, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The unknown ancestor. A photograph I picked up at a stall in the souk at Marrakech. Good to bring in strangers to your family altar. Also a fossil predecessor, an ammonite I found on the same trip.
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Happy Imbolc. A Tibetan ritual dagger, a Phurba, the tent peg of the world, the Axis Mundi, bears down on San Pedro, the gateway to the heavens.
February 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Happy Imbolc. A Tibetan ritual dagger, a Phurba, the tent peg of the world, the Axis Mundi, bears down on San Pedro, the gateway to the heavens.
Polaroid of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond ceremonially opening the KLF/JAMMS memorabilia shipping container that had been sealed for 23 years. Inside were boxes of DAT tapes, fan letters, crumbling foam costumes from Top of the Pops appearances..
February 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Polaroid of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond ceremonially opening the KLF/JAMMS memorabilia shipping container that had been sealed for 23 years. Inside were boxes of DAT tapes, fan letters, crumbling foam costumes from Top of the Pops appearances..
Altar details. Corpse bride, left over coffin nails, eyes from ventriloquist dummy, ammonite, Krishna and the butter ball, a Centaur listening to Pan, Death in various forms, Gorse buttonhole from a funeral, cat skull, slate Lingum from the river Dart, Gods and Goddesses galore.
January 18, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Altar details. Corpse bride, left over coffin nails, eyes from ventriloquist dummy, ammonite, Krishna and the butter ball, a Centaur listening to Pan, Death in various forms, Gorse buttonhole from a funeral, cat skull, slate Lingum from the river Dart, Gods and Goddesses galore.
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
The Quaker style funeral of Lindsey Stewart. Lindsey sung with the Moorheart Threshold Choir who sing to the dying. Here they are singing to her.
January 17, 2026 at 10:42 AM
The Quaker style funeral of Lindsey Stewart. Lindsey sung with the Moorheart Threshold Choir who sing to the dying. Here they are singing to her.
Competitive indeed…
“Who is that? The doctor?”
“The undertaker.”
“You don’t believe in letting the grass grow under your feet, do you?”
“Ours is a very competitive profession, sir.”
“The undertaker.”
“You don’t believe in letting the grass grow under your feet, do you?”
“Ours is a very competitive profession, sir.”
January 16, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Competitive indeed…
A lovely review from the amazing Dave Lee.
What Remains? by Rupert Callender
This is a truly superb and ground-breaking book. And very well-written - it's hard to believe that someone who isn't a many-times published ...
chaotopia-dave.blogspot.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:04 PM
A lovely review from the amazing Dave Lee.
Casting my shadow over the grave for once instead of the other way round.
January 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Casting my shadow over the grave for once instead of the other way round.
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We're going to need a bigger Hague.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
We're going to need a bigger Hague.
See for yourself, listen for yourself, think for yourself.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
See for yourself, listen for yourself, think for yourself.
I have a friend who is a palliative care nurse who is as brilliant and gifted and comically kind as this character. Pray you meet one of these edge of the village don’t give a fuck healers should you be dying like this.
I'd quite forgotten how amazing this scene (and Paula Pell's performance) is.
If anyone needs to know what dying from cancer is like (for the last month of life) this scene featuring Paula Pell as a hospice nurse from Dying for Sex explains it beautifully.
youtu.be/i8a0pUaCGQU?...
youtu.be/i8a0pUaCGQU?...
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I have a friend who is a palliative care nurse who is as brilliant and gifted and comically kind as this character. Pray you meet one of these edge of the village don’t give a fuck healers should you be dying like this.
Continuing with the mildly blasphemous posts, (please don’t be offended, British “humour”) kitchen nativity mural, with myself, my wife and her daughter as three wise thems, my dog as Mary, and our elderly malevolent cat as what is clearly the Antichrist. Someone call Peter Theil. They’re heeeerre.
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Continuing with the mildly blasphemous posts, (please don’t be offended, British “humour”) kitchen nativity mural, with myself, my wife and her daughter as three wise thems, my dog as Mary, and our elderly malevolent cat as what is clearly the Antichrist. Someone call Peter Theil. They’re heeeerre.
What a Gede Christmas looks like.
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
What a Gede Christmas looks like.
Today we opened our premises for an all day vigil for lovely Lindsey Stewart. I idly opened the Guardian and lo, there she was. A few members of The Threshold Choir sung to her in our chapel of rest. Incredibly moving.
‘He was struggling with his breath. I sat beside him and sang’: the choir who sing to people on their deathbeds
Just as lullabies send babies to sleep, so songs can help those at the other end of life on their way. The leader of a Threshold Choir reveals what they do – and the personal tragedies that convinced ...
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Today we opened our premises for an all day vigil for lovely Lindsey Stewart. I idly opened the Guardian and lo, there she was. A few members of The Threshold Choir sung to her in our chapel of rest. Incredibly moving.
An American funeral on Dartmoor. Ceremony in an old cow barn, burial in the churchyard. Coffin made by boat builder son.
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
An American funeral on Dartmoor. Ceremony in an old cow barn, burial in the churchyard. Coffin made by boat builder son.
Nice thoughtful interview with Popsa.
Rupert Callender: The Undertaker Rethinking Memory and Grief
Meet Rupert Callender – an undertaker transforming grief into communal memory through rituals and storytelling.
popsa.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Nice thoughtful interview with Popsa.
Still life with Kesey and Thompson.
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Still life with Kesey and Thompson.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My publisher warned me that Good Reads reviews can be brutal, and then there is something like this, from Professor Tara Brabazon, former Dean of Charles Darwin University, Australia. If you’re still struggling for that festive morbid gift.
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My publisher warned me that Good Reads reviews can be brutal, and then there is something like this, from Professor Tara Brabazon, former Dean of Charles Darwin University, Australia. If you’re still struggling for that festive morbid gift.
The Ancestor’s Fire burns at Sharpham Meadow whilst the grave is slowly filled by family.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The Ancestor’s Fire burns at Sharpham Meadow whilst the grave is slowly filled by family.
Happy Birthday William Blake. This Blake print of Christ’s tomb being opened hangs in our chapel of rest. Bonus reflection of my colleague in the doorway.
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy Birthday William Blake. This Blake print of Christ’s tomb being opened hangs in our chapel of rest. Bonus reflection of my colleague in the doorway.
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"Beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders, crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite deep."
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"Beneath us, at an immense distance, was the sun, black but shining; round it were fiery tracks on which revolv'd vast spiders, crawling after their prey, which flew, or rather swum, in the infinite deep."
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.
Happy birthday William Blake, poet, visionary...science fiction writer.