In case the impression has been given that the cultural highspots so far involve playing arcade games and supping pints, let me redress the balance by pointing out that while in Dungeness we visited Derek Jarman's garden. Dungeness is a wild and bleak place, so this represents some sort of oasis, and I remember seeing many years ago a film about how he created this place in the shadow of the power station.
Maybe someone can tell me the source of the quotation on the side of the house:
Later, in St Mary in the Marsh (after the famous bar billiards victory), we visited the grave of E Nesbit. Very rudimentary wooden construction with a hand carved inscription.
The quotation is from John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising".
ReplyDeleteThanks David! Will have to google that - it was kind of difficult to read on the side of the building!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave - it took an expert from the British Library to come up with the goods!!!
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