C. S. Lewis understood

To Blockley!

Coin of 100 Drachmas with Alexander the Great.

They're filming a new series of Father Brown in the village! Quite tempted to wear 1959s clothes and see if I can slip my way into the background as an extra.

One for the Father Brown fans.

Of course, we have normal holidays. We're walking alpacas and looking at lavender tomorrow.

I've been cheese shopping in Moreton.

My friend is single, in his mid-twenties, living off his inheritance in central London, member of the Drones Club and somewhat of a dandy. He’s been engaged over twenty times but cannot seem to get married. What is going on? Are women put off by his canny and scheming butler?

We saw alpacas and lavender today.

I would add to this manipulating the past in order to portray civilisations as excessively noble/manly to pander to your own views & complaints about 21st century life

Dur-Sharrukin (Fortress of Sargon), Iraq

🪷 #PhallusThursday: This remarkable statue of a man clutching his genitals was unearthed at Karahan Tepe temple, sister site to the world's oldest temple, 11,000-year-old #GöbekliTepe, in #Antinous' birthland Asia Minor (Turkey). Follow LJ Trafford #PhallusThursday originator 🪷

Messalina guides the dragon chariot in the triumph of Emperor Claudius, Roman, 1st century AD, National Library of France.

We fail to see the hobbit door in Dunny-On-the-Wold as Mr LJ falls ill in England's oldest pub. Back again to the Cotswolds next year.

He managed to get the book he wanted in Borzoi Bookshop. So the trip wasn't all bad.

Black-Figured Lekythos