Something different

How NOT to Scatter Ashes – A daughter’s farewell goes wrong

We have been writing on the subject of ashes for over ten years. We have thousands of people who come to the site every day looking for advice and guidance on how to this very final act of farewell. We talk about tide times, landowners’ permission…. you name it we have discuss it. However, among […]

Cremation Ashes as a Marketing Ploy

Nothing new in the world they say. Well perhaps, but this is certainly different. There is a famous restaurant in the Las Vegas called the Heart Attack Grill. Its whole method of promotion is entirely paradoxical. It is famous for telling you that their food is very very bad for you. They are in the […]

Mother’s Day Competition

Mother’s Day Competition Want to treat your mum to a fabulous Devon Cream tea at @GlazbrookHouseHotel on us? Enter our Mother’s Day Competition. We’re on the hunt for a mother and daughter to feature in our new brochure. If you and your mum/daughter would like to have your hair and makeup professionally done, be photographed […]

Ashes put into a Vinyl Record

After a truly unique way to remember some you loved? We work with a british company that can put the cremation ashes of your loved one into 12 inch vinyl record. Whether you want to hear a recording of their voice or a desert island discs type compilation we can help. A small amount of […]

Ashes into Fireworks video – Self-fire Rockets

Ashes into Fireworks video – Self-fire Rockets Fireworks are a fabulous option for a spectacular send-off, watch our ashes into fireworks video to see how one family gave their loved one a truly memorable send-off. The rockets are powerful, colourful and will make any fire ceremony go with a bang. Ashes into fireworks You have two choices […]

Ashes in Fireworks – a happy customer

This Celebration of Life fireworks display was for the late Diane Finlay and was organised by her sons and daughter. The display took place in October, in a place that Diane had always loved in the Northamptonshire countryside. A small group of family and friends gathered at around 7pm. After a short speech and toast […]

Scattering Ashes in Fireworks – Peony Display Video – Beautiful

Scattering Ashes Peony Display Peony Display – Ashes into Fireworks Thinking of a spectacular send of a ashes scattering ceremony with a Bang. Here is one option the Peony display joyous powerful and we consider to be real value for money for the amount of work that goes into to producing such a wonderful display. […]

Steam Railway: an ashes send off with a toot toot!

Steam trains are so enigmatic. They epitomise an age of style and engineering and they are a passion for many of us in the UK and beyond. Well there may be an opportunity for you to have your ashes blown from the ash box (I think I have correct). The South Devon Railway Trust – the organisations runs the South […]

Metal fan has his ashes scattered in the Mosh Pit

You’re not allowed to call it heavy metal any more so I am told, just metal. But still to my mind it is pretty much the same. Loud in volume, lots of drums and thrash guitar, not so many ballads and plenty of counter culture paraphernalia. Metal bands seem to specifically go out of their […]

Cast glass memorial bookends with playground scene

No ashes? Memorial Glass Stories

No Ashes? We often speak to people who don’t have the ashes of their loved one. Perhaps they felt rushed into scattering all the ashes straight away, perhaps family tensions meant that they were unable to get any of the ashes, perhaps they’ve done something with the ashes and yet still feel that what they […]

Ashes into Fireworks: Self-fire or an organised display?

Ashes into fireworks Are you considering going out with a bang? Putting cremation ashes into fireworks – what are the things you need to think about… There are two main options for you: Having your ashes in a firework display or having the ashes placed in a rocket or a self-firing fireworks box. There are advantages […]

Crazy way to cure an illness: with cremation ashes!

I am not saying Western Medicine is the be-all and end-all, but some supposed cures and remains are just plain bonkers. In Salepur, situated in Odisha north east India, a self-styled godman has come up with an interesting approach to aliments. Pretend you are dead, the evil spirits will think you are dead and then […]

Britain’s first and only Memorial Reef

For lovers of the sea: Divers, Sailors, Fishermen and anyone one else with a passion for wildlife and the sea. Now there is a new way to have a truly fitting memorial. The first and only Memorial Reef in the UK. Situated off the famous Jurassic coast, near Weymouth in Dorset. The ashes of a […]

Ashes in a Terrarium – how thoroughly modern

Not quite sure what to make of this. The website The Modern Mourner has come up with the idea of cremation ashes kept in a terrarium as they say the phosphate in the the ash acts as a fertiliser, again not perhaps for the faint hearted, but it is discrete, it gives life and is […]