
In the Beginning was the Tree of Words








Finally, after backtracking from poor directions, we made it to the Chattri itself.





We walked through beautiful countryside, up to the Chattri one afternoon…
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Seen along a country walk.

Although this Boundary Passage is near where Google Maps says the boundary between Brighton and Hove lies, it’s not actually along this alley.




It seems I always find the museum’s mirror.

A striking image we saw at the museum that I failed to make a note of. The best I can reconstruct from the museum’s web site is that it might have been part of this exhibit. I have long considered using my calligraphy skills on photographs but some early experiments proved disappointing. It’s still on my list of future projects, however.

This ceramic appears to show children happily playing, but look closely and you see the darkness of the background (note, for instance, the house inscribed with swastikas). For more, take a look at Cuddly Toys Caught on Barbed Wire, here.

Now a Metro Bank, this building opposite where we’re staying in Brighton has a long retail history going back to the drapers shop Soper’s in the 1870s.

We took a walk through St Anne’s Well Gardens and discovered someone had left apples in various places.





