Hi Donna - that Life in the 1500s was excellent! However, having come from England and knowing al those sayings I will ask a naive question - is all of that true?? I mean I know they did tie string to a 'dead man's' hand at one time so that he could alert people up top if were actually alive but the 'graveyard shift'? I had a friend whose father used to go out at dead of night and return early hours before his regular work and for many years she thought he was a burglar - he was a part time grave digger, only allowed to dig the graves late at night, and paid very well too! This was in the 1960s, I think it's stopped now but it was known as the graveyard shift. I am not trying to spoil the stories honest, just really like to know if they all true before I send them off to the oldies in UK! Carol Park