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I climbed over the locked gate, as it was getting dark and the tide was coming in. It then started raining when I was on the foreshore. Holding my torch, my umbrella, and my finds bag while poking at things proved a bit difficult, so I ended up not staying that long. I also seemed to have some girls shouting at me - apparently I was holding my umbrella wrongly? Or something like that. But it's hard to hold an umbrella when you're holding so much else and bending over a lot to look at things. Not a fun time on the foreshore really.

I picked up a pipe and a couple of pieces of pottery in desperation, to make it feel like getting wet and getting shouted at and climbing over gates was worthwhile. I found an octopus!

Climbing back over the gate I find a bit more difficult, I am not very flexible, and the gate is wet so I got even more wet.

Mudlarking finds - 63

(You need a permit to search or mudlark on the Thames foreshore.)

и заодно на тему

Nov. 21st, 2025 10:13 am
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"Машу Дрокову", наверно, многие помнят.

Что меня глубоко поражало, лет десять назад, что у неё на линктине среди контактов было порядочное количество моих порядочных знакомых. Сейчас пять осталось. Думаю, и здесь кто-нибудь ещё есть среди её, э, "друзей". Я нахер недоумевал до крайности. Поразительно же. А им ничего так, ничего. Типа важная персона эта сучка, или что там вообще.

Ну вот; и теперь опять.

Я ничего не предлагаю, просто отмечаю ещё раз, что вкусы бывают разные. Кому-то нравится арбуз, а кому и кобыла невеста. Ps.1:1 - он же не обязателен к исполнению.

Bunhill Fields 2

Nov. 21st, 2025 07:47 am
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 Bunhill Fields is the Westminster Abbey of English nonconformity. There are some very famous people buried here.

The Victorians honoured John Bunyan with a catafalque and recumbent effigy.

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Daniel Defoe gets an obelisk-. Again it's Victorian.

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Just to the right of the obelisk is one of Blake's two gravestones. It says that he and his wife Catherine are buried nearby.

Two gravestones?

Yes. A while after that first stone had been erected someone did some research and believed they had found the exact spot. Hence this- which is 20th century...

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"I give you the end of a golden string
Only wind it into a ball
It will lead you in at Heaven's gate
Built in Jerusalem's wall."

Follow Friday 11-21-25

Nov. 21st, 2025 01:38 am
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