by moderator | Jun 10, 2021 | Articles and more
Our friend Yuli Somme from Bellacouche has sent this beautiful piece I remember years ago my daughter cradling her dead hamster, trying to comprehend the why and what of it all. Five years after the death of my lovely Labracollie, Flo, I still miss the soft...
by moderator | Jun 2, 2021 | News
We have created a Facebook Group for Borrowed Time. If you want to join in on the conversation before (and after) the event, join the group. We’ll also be sending out invitations to everyone who has registered for Borrowed Time.
by moderator | May 25, 2021 | Articles and more
Thanks to Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson for sharing these words from Iris Murdoch: “Goodness is connected with the acceptance of real death and real chance and real transience and only against the background of this acceptance, which is so psychologically...
by moderator | May 25, 2021 | Articles and more
There was once a tradition in Hookland of sextons and gravediggers wearing special ear plugs to prevent the dead whispering to them as they worked the churchyard. Few gravediggers today admit to keeping the practice, though those of Walmington are an exception....
by moderator | Apr 26, 2021 | Events, Featured, Main Programme, Past events
Wednesday June 23 at 13.00 BST (UTC+1) Watch the video below, or on vimeo ‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and – several times – to tears. It sings with joy...
