The Whitby Celebrant

27/12/2025

Take a breath slow it down 🧡

02/12/2025

This year’s tree in the annual Christmas tree display at St Mary’s church Whitby.

25/11/2025

The funeral of Dave Ball of Soft Cell.

Requiescat in pace, Dave.

17/11/2025

Back from a short trip to Edinburgh and this was the view from our window.
The tombstone in Greyfriars Cemetery bears the names ‘Thomas Riddell’ and it is apparently from here Harry Potter’s writer got the name of her villian.

09/11/2025

We will remember them.

27/10/2025

22/10/2025

On BBC news this morning.

Companies are offering the option to opt out of emails about sensitive occasions like Father's Day.

10/09/2025

To anyone affected by su***de, whether you’re missing someone you’ve lost, struggling with suicidal thoughts yourself or supporting someone who is going through it right now – we’re thinking of you this World Su***de Prevention Day.

Just a reminder that if you find World Su***de Prevention Day hard, for any reason, it really is OK to switch off from social media tomorrow. Take care of yourselves 💚

We’re always here to talk on 116 123 📱

16/08/2025

When the time comes, would you want your final ceremony to be called a funeral or a celebration of life?
Did you know there is a difference?

You may have heard the phrase, ‘celebration of life’ and are unsure of what this entails. Is it a modern phrase for a funeral or is it a different ceremony?

01/08/2025

Happy Yorkshire Day

23/07/2025

Unable to return to my home city, my son left flowers for Ozzy Osbourne at Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham.