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I’m not forgetting it’s #MementoMoriMonday!
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This little skull is part of a large ornate tomb in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, where I had a lovely autumnal walk almost a year ago.

#MementoMoriMonday mood. Facing the day with a smile and a pecking to-do-list bird on a shoulder.
Memento Mori, Catharina Ykens, 1689.
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...

The bones of the dead, collected from the ground, have now at last been interred here.

Chiesa di Santa Maria Incoronata, Milan.

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The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out....

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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
A Memento Mori skeleton etching by Charles Grignion, 1821.
wellcomecollection.org/works/au2m2w6y

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Elie Church Fife

In Garvald Kirkyard in East Lothian #mementomorimonday

#MementoMoriMonday from the churchyard of St John the Baptist, Lea Marston, Warwickshire.

A monument from a sister to a sister: Bridget Price erected this tablet in St John, #Gloucester, to her sister Dorothy, who died, aged 23, in 1693. Their father, Major Price, once a Royalist soldier, watches from the wall opposite. #MementoMoriMonday #MonumentsMonday

Memorial brass to Richard Ballett, died 1598, St Mary of the Assumption, Ufford. #MementoMoriMonday

Like thee I was somtime
But now am turnd to dust
As thow at lenght O Earth and slime
Returne to Asshes must