{"id":235,"date":"2025-09-10T20:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/?p=235"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:39:31","slug":"august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most of the month has been spent on family: the death of my only Uncle in July now makes our family a very small cousin-less unit, albeit each of my siblings and myself have a large population of in-laws, we are now closer than ever. So arranging readings and being left to sort out the contents of a home we didn\u2019t know has had its toll on us all. It has also meant changing life\u2019s priorities and addressing what is important. I passed my British Sign Language Level 1 and now look forward to Level 2 in October and see where I go from there, as this will be the biggest challenge- going from being able to sign to people, I now need to master understanding the language coming back to me and becoming \u2018receptive\u2019. Very few photos taken this month – who takes photos at a funeral? However, I have learned that every coffin is cremated (I thought there would be a stock for show and the cremation was just the person), it is very thin MDF and the handles are plastic. Also the ashes from a body are quite heavy – not the vessel I imagined of about the size of a pint, more like a large shoe box and weighing about 10lbs. Questions you don\u2019t get to ask very often!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detectorist Vandalism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The new Ford Capri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nothing says Integrity like a tidy worksite and PPE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Memorial Park, Syston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My nibling and wife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stonards Green, Epping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Syston Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Stocking Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grow, Give, Live<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Central Park, Syston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Swithland Wood, Leicestershire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the month has been spent on family: the death of my only Uncle in July now makes our family a very small cousin-less unit, albeit each of my siblings and myself have a large population of in-laws, we are now closer than ever. So arranging readings and being left to sort out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewdavis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}