Nicholas WibberleyJan 13, 20217 min readSaying goodbye in COVID. A UK undertaker's guide to creating a beautiful funeral during the pandemicWriting this in the second week of January 2021, we are experiencing a steady and sobering rise in the daily death rate of the virus...
haasbrendaDec 14, 20203 min readDarkness amidst “merry and bright” Some of us might probably associate “Blue Christmas” with the velvety baritone of legendary American crooner, Jim Reeves. It’s one of the...
haasbrendaNov 13, 20204 min readA contagion worth spreadingChances are, you’re cooped up indoors due to COVID (somewhere in the world) while reading this. And chances are, given the varying...
haasbrendaOct 19, 20203 min readBecause you're worth itToday is “Evaluate Your Life Day.” Perhaps some of us have long done this. Perhaps some of us began doing this given the time, space, and...
haasbrendaSep 29, 20203 min readOf books and all they bearOne of my first books that I reread often as a child was a children’s reader entitled, Bala on The Moon. It marked the start of a...
Nicholas WibberleyAug 23, 20205 min readWhat on earth is a green funeral? - Sustainable ways to save the planet from beyond the grave.How can we make woodland burials more mainstream? A good place to start, perhaps, would be to talk about it more; to think about it more.
haasbrendaAug 17, 20204 min readWhat comes first: an ending or a beginning?When Nick Wibberley, the Managing Director of N.S.Wibberley Funeral Directors & Memorial Consultants, first asked me if I could imagine...
Nicholas WibberleyApr 26, 20206 min readStriving for truth - busting the myths about funerals during COVID-19 We are hearing more and more, almost every day, reports in the media, in newspapers and particularly in 'call-in' radio shows, about...