Leeds - Castle. Gardens, Ducks, and Industry

Leeds Castle - moat, water, gardens, great ducks. This is also a center for Roma, or Gypsies, see "Travellers in Leeds," at ://www.travellersinleeds.co.uk/_travellers/HistoryEngland.html

A place for wandering.


This particular duck is a Muscovy. See //www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/ducks/index.htm.

Leeds also has an industrial underbelly, see history of its feltworks and other industry and the people who worked there, in "Foreigners," by Caryl Phillips - see Hello, Fodder - Racial Fodder post, about David Oluwale, the Nigerian immigrant who died under such suspicious circumstances while in custody, and related issues of racial targeting in England. We can't point fingers here, just pointing out a good book to get an idea of what it is like. If we ever can. And, read carefully the site for Gypsies at Leeds - an overview of history, and current events.

Meanwhile, go to the gardens at the castle. The Ugly of Persecution, and the Rigidity of Thought that leads to firm, hard gardens.

Nature likes some looseness instead, I think. Something there is doesn't love a straight line.