man eating deity
took mum-mum and dad-dad (and all of us) to 'quex house' which was absolutley INCREDIBLE.
this lion actually managed to land 17 claw and teeth gouges into the man that shot it.
good work fella.
unfortunately the man with the gun still came out better off.
one man and his gun/s
was amused by the tour guide saying 'it wasn't just that he (powell-cotton) went off and shot everything in sight for the fun of it'
i replied 'well, he did go off and shoot everything in sight...'
and mrs.perou interjected '...and it looks like he had fun doing it'.
'yes', said the guide...' but it was in the days before television and photographs of animals aren't the same as seeing them for real'
'ur...'
i have never seen such incredible displays of taxidermery.
or such incredible displays of one man's killing frenzy in the name of education.
the scale of the displays are amazing.
how much it must have cost to ship everything back to kent is unfathomable.
there were some genuinely fascinating bits in the collection.
which was hard to see because maximum and z were being noisy, badly behaved nuisances.
i was interested to see the man traps that were used by groundsmen and landowners to keep people 'AWF THEIR LAND' (by cutting their legs off) until they were banned in 1827 only to be used again in WW1.
and the 'trap gun' which was triggered by trip wires, again to keep people off your land (by shooting them).
there was also a morgan (car) show out the front of the house.
the 'life car' still in prototype is also amazing...150mpg...electric...i want one...mummy
even these pictures don't give you an idea of the scale of the 'collection' (slaughter).
after the visit to 'quex house' me and maximum went for a 4mile bike ride on an explore.
i'm knackered...he isn't.
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