Candie Cemetery…

I thought it was time to revisit some of the cemeteries so started with Candie. I think cemeteries are best photographed in black and white so MonoMonday was the perfect day.
The Brothers’ cemetery is just down the road so I popped in for a look. It’s quite overgrown but I hope that is because they want to give the wild flowers their day. I’ll pop back on a sunny day and blip it.
My pics are all black and white and taken with my iPhone camera so seem to fit the camera challenge for today;-)

And the obvious saying of the day is ‘someone walked over my grave’ though that’s not likely to happen to me because I have paid for my cremation with instructions for the funeral director to dispose of the ashes and I’ve no idea what they do with them.

The phrase “someone is walking over my grave” comes an old folk belief that a sudden cold sensation is caused by someone walking over the place that one’s grave was eventually going to be. This belief is thought to have originated in the Middle Ages, when the distinction between life and death was less clear than it is today. People then believed in communication between the afterlife and the physical world, and believed that a person’s final resting place was predetermined.
The earliest known record of the phrase in print is in 1738, and it is still used today, sometimes in the form of “a goose (or occasionally, a rabbit) walked over my grave”. The modern-day scientific explanation for sudden unexplained shuddering and goose pimples is that they are caused by a subconscious release of the stress hormone adrenaline. However, the medieval version of the belief, although more fanciful, is somehow more appealing.