Skyberries and Voidmelons or Voidberries and Skymelons

Wrexham Cemetery has, as expected, gravestones written on them in Welsh, but what seemed unusual to me is that some gravestones had the addresses of where the people used to live before they died written on them. More information than I expected. When I visited the cemetery on Saturday, there was still snow on some of the graves, and snow covered the distant hills.

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The National University of Singapore has a one day seminar on Afterlife and Death in a Digital Age in April: "As emergent technologies increasingly pervade people's lives they are also increasingly a part of dying and of hopes and illusions of immortality and possible afterlife."

On Good Friday, wintrmute and I wandered around the intriguing cemetery at Abney Park, gazing into the eyes of ivy-covered stone angels and lions, as blossom floated past in the sunshine.

We found the statue of Isaac Watts, who was born in Southampton and wrote many hymns including the one played by Southampton's clocktower. He apparently helped to landscape Abney Park.

I wondered how people had died, but then about what was still alive. In English churchyards, ancient yew trees are fairly common, but often there are other plants and animals that are also interesting. Southampton's Old Cemetery has three-edged leeks, where as in the churchyard of St Martin's in Eynsford, Kent, (edible) Roman snails can be found. In Vienna's Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), pretty red and black beetles are common, and of course, in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris, there are a lot of cats. In Abney Park, I did see a few ladybirds at least.