Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana’s 1905 work The Life of Reason
Saturday, 12 September 2026
Neglect
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana’s 1905 work The Life of Reason
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It's not neglect - it's "Rewilding"...
Dave - good point and it wouldn't be a surprise if letting it go was some kind of policy along those lines.
Dave's right AK, the boneyard here has specific areas where they only cut the high stuff a couple of times a year. There are also some fabulous new beds of wild flowers - the poppies were amazing this year, and there'll be more next year, hopefully!
I guess that the cost of those monuments in your picture would be astronomical these days! We even have some chest graves which are Grade 1 listed! Can't read them though...
Scrobs - that's a pity, it's bound to look scruffy and neglected at certain times of year, as the Matlock cemetery does now. Our local cemetery hasn't adopted the policy yet, but no doubt it will.
Perhaps there’s an answer in a story from a few years back about a flock of sheep being pastured in a churchyard to keep the grass down; it made the news because opinion was interestingly divided between those deeply outraged at the ‘desecration’ (and, in particular, at the ewes happily munching on floral tributes) and enthusiastic supporters of the idea, some of whom had even formally recorded a wish that, when the time came, they, too, should be buried ‘with the sheep’.
Macheath - yes I remember the sheep in a churchyard story. I wonder if they still do it because soon enough visitors would have to be careful where they put their feet.
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