Today we switched to a B&B for the next few days, a place with a garden and Internet wifi. We have a whole floor to ourselves, which is different than the bustle of the hostel. In the late afternoon, after doing some research on where to find Blake paintings and Eric Gill sculptures (or lettering) I headed out to go to Bun Hill fields burial ground where Catherine and William Blake are buried. I pictured a place with nothing much around it, but that would have been two hundred years ago when it was still all countryside in Lambeth. Gahlord was coming down with a cold, so I went alone. Inside it was a place where the past still existed. Only the pigeons and squirrels were allowed to roam the yard freely, as people had to stay in the gated pathways. Blake’s body had been in an unmarked grave, as he died in poverty. But they marked his grave with a headstone one hundred years later but then later moved the headstone, probably when they gated the yard. The Blake Society website mentioned a large tree 20 meters away as the actual site. There was a rune mark at the bottom of a large tree, that someone had carved, which I imagine is the place. There were flowers at the headstone, the only headstone in the graveyard that had that.
I picked up some takeout on the way back at a place that, had a big street crowd, and brought it back to share with Gahlord.
