Mad Dogs & Englishmen

Chiddingstone Castle on the North Downs, Kent by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The Castle’s history can be traced back to Tudor times, and was remodelled in the fashionable ‘medieval castle-style’ in the early 19th Century. Today it houses the amazing collections of the late Denys Eyre Bower, a passionate and gifted collector of art and artefacts, Japanese lacquer and Samurai armour, Ancient Egyptian treasures, Buddhist objects, Stuart paintings and Jacobite manuscripts.

Originally it was fun game… carrying our respective flags across the fields without being intercepted by the “enemy”. But when I was about eleven years old, some of the children began taking the game a little too seriously. And the Chiddingstone brats broke a window on one of Hever’s gardening sheds I got blamed , and punished for this… even though I was defending Hever! As far as I know, this game has never been played since then.

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Cave paintings from Magura Cave, Bulgaria, estimated to be around 10k-8k years old depicting animals and people, hunting, ritual dances, and deities

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Quello che deve rimanere rimane e quello che si deve perdere si perde.(Haruki Murakami)

Great tit/talgoxe, and Blue tit/blåmes. Värmland, Sweden (March 14, 2021).