Saturday Stroll – Serene Souls

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Following on from yesterday’s Halloween theme tale, take a stroll through the setting.

You can read yesterday’s tiny tale here.

https://tidalscribe.com/2025/10/31/friday-flash-faction-moving-on/

Do you like wandering around graveyards, do you have a favourite? Are you as fascinated by the lives of writers as much as in what they wrote?

25 thoughts on “Saturday Stroll – Serene Souls”

  2. I love exploring old graveyards and especially if a writer is buried there. I recently explored the old graveyard in Alloway where Robert Burn’s father and sister are buried. The graveyard was inspiration for some of his writing.

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  6. I do find graveyards interesting to wander around in. It may go back to my childhood, when around age 13 or so I had three relatives die in the space of a year, and because of my growth spurt I became “eligible” to be a pall bearer. It was weird being a part of three funerals in such a short period of time, and at a young age, but it also made me more comfortable with the whole death thingy.

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  7. I can’t believe I’ve never found Mary Shelley’s tomb in my adopted home town!

    I do love a graveyard – in Romania, the locals thought it very odd to visit a graveyard when there is no one you know there. I visited the one in Sighisoara, which gave a very interesting perspective on Romanian history – many of the names were Germanic, and were the Saxons who populated Romania in the 12th century to protect against Mongol and Tatar raids.

    That said, Romania is home to the Merry Cemetery, which is very much a tourist attraction! It has beautifully decorated tombs with often humorous epitaphs.

    I’m interested in people’s lives, so I am definitely interested in the lives of writers, as well as ordinary people. I enjoyed visiting the New Forest Snake Catcher’s grave in Brockenhurst and I remember reading a wonderful piece written a thousand years ago by a serf who said his work was hard because he was not a free man. I can’t remember the details of where I saw it, or how a serf was literate, but I love these insights into the past and how people lived!

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    1. Hello Jacqueline, I think I first knew Mary’s tomb was there when I went on a guided ‘literary walk’ which started in the graveyard. My family loved visiting graveyards and when we were children Mum and her friend had a long walk to the ‘shopping centre’ with a short cut through the cemetery. The friend’s little girl would cry if they did not go through the cemetery. Yes lots to learn and it’s disappointing when graves are too weather worn to read.

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  8. My maternal grandparents are buried in Nunhead Cemetery in South London, which was famous at one time. When we used to visit the graves I loved to wander around looking at the various tombs and gravestones. It later became untended and overgrown, before a local group started to clear it up and try to restore it. I believe it is fully open again now. My mum got to know the groundskeeper there, and when our alsatian dog died, he arranged for us to bury the dog under a tree near the entrance. (On the quiet, of course!) https://www.fonc.org.uk/

    Best wishes, Pete.

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    1. Hello Pete, I had not heard of that cemetery, but I always think there must be a lot of cemeteries in South London as one seems to pass a lot on the way down from Waterloo! That was a nice gesture for your dog and some operation to carry out on the quiet!

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  9. My father had originally named me after PB Shelley. I was too young to know that. I believed I was named after a Hindi word “shaily” which means a school of art or style of writing. So I changed my spelling and became…myself. 😂

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    1. Hello Debby, The Mary Shelley is a pub, though the building was previously a night club . Wetherspoons is a very popular pub and restaurant chain which takes over all sorts of interesting buildings and gives them names reflecting their location.

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