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How do we approach Mothering Sunday this weekend?
By Abigail Price, Celebrant, Shoobridge Funeral Services One of the special times in the day for me is listening to Pause for Thought on Radio 2 at around 7.30am each morning. I’m usually busy making breakfast for the children and emptying the dishwasher. I find normal morning chores are a great background when I want […]
When grief unravels, where do you go for help?
By Abigail Price, funeral celebrant for Shoobridge Funeral Services. One of my closest friends died suddenly in January and the last two months have been an exceptionally strange time in my life. In my work as a funeral celebrant, I am surrounded by death and grief. I am always affected by the sadness of the […]
Giving thanks for all those who hold the hands of the dying and the bereaved
The saying goes: ‘in the midst of life we are in death’. Never has this felt more blatantly true. In my work as a funeral celebrant, and in Paul Shoobridge’s work as a funeral director, we are surrounded by death every day. And we are often asked by the families we work with how we […]
Advent is the season of waiting
When I was a student, I studied Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett. It’s a bizarre play in which there is a lot of …. waiting, oddly enough. It is all wrapped up in the meaning of life and the central characters are there, page after page, waiting for this Godot, who never arrives. It’s […]
For the love of poetry!
I remember well the first time I entered a poem in a competition. It was the 1990 Eisteddfod, an annual competition in schools across Wales each year which coincides with St David’s Day at the start of March. After two days of songs, recitation and dancing, it culminates in the ‘chairing of the bard’ ceremony […]
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