Castle – Ebb Then Flood

No Rules

‘ No Rules’

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” – G.K.Chesterton

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Where the picture is what is what it says on the tin.

Where three things I happen to dig are together in one place.

A tad gloomy I suppose, but at least I’m happy…

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It was a dismal weekday afternoon as we trekked towards Calton Hill in Edinburgh.

Then, joy of joys, just before our destination I saw some stone stairs leading up to a small cemetery.

Like a rat up a drainpipe, I quickly found my way to this vista, with looming castle battlements to ice the proverbial cake.

Victorian gothic nirvana!

I would have lingered, but my wife and daughter were less than impressed with another funereal photographic detour.

I rejoined them, and when we reached the top of the Hill, the drizzle became hard rain, forming waterfalls down the steps.

So wet, so grey…and I was so happy with it all.

Sometimes I wonder what the f**k is wrong with me.

Faded grandeur on Auckland’s Dominion Road.

Faux castle battlements above the proud name,’Cheapside’.

Peeling grey paint.

A bit down at the heel maybe.

Probably not the future imagined at the laying of its foundations.

But still standing,useful and with purpose after the best part of a century.

Some of us are like this battling building, battered but not broken(alliteration alert!).

And still dreaming of being castles…