A lovely day at Arnos Vale, a Victorian cemetery in Bristol. We'd gone to see the exhibition about, and made from, plastic waste from floral tributes. All the items in the exhibitions were found blowing around the cemetery - nothing was removed from graves. It was an interesting exhibition but if I hadn’t have known about it, I probably would have missed it as there wasn’t any signage, which was a real shame.
There were signs pointing to an exhibition in the basement area of the café, but that was an exhibition about the history of the cemetery and one of the artefacts was an ancient cremation furnace, which makes me *very* glad that I’ll be ending up in a meadow (a long story, but basically I won a plot!)
Wandering around afterwards, I was acutely aware of how intrusive these plastic flowers are. Thankfully, quite a few of the tended graves had real flowers.
The cemetery is cared for by volunteers and they do as much as they can, but decades of neglect mean that a lot more work (and money) is needed. The Commonwealth War Graves are well-cared-for but many of the graves are overgrown, even that of the architect of the cemetery, and some were very badly damaged by tree growth.

Quite a few of the memorials were to several siblings from the same family, which led us to ask: which would we like to be remembered as - 'beloved' offspring or 'perfect' offspring?