A Place Of Light And A Place Of Darkness
Mar. 2nd, 2023 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Our friend was in fine form yesterday afternoon. You wouldn't think she'd spent a day under anaesthetic having much of her body rearranged.
She's at the Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead- a storied place- in a ward named after one of the surgeons- Ross Tilley- who did pioneering reconstructive surgery on badly burned aircrew in the 1940s. There are pictures of WWII aircraft in the corridors- and we passed memorials to Tilley and his boss McIndoe and another to the Canadian fliers who passed through the facility. Our friend isn't particularly psychic but she was seeing orbs when she went down to surgery and caught a reflection in a mirror of someone walking behind her who wasn't actually present in her reality.
Our road to East Grinstead and back took us past Hamilton Palace- the folly de grandeur which Nicholas Van Hoogstraten began in the 1980s and then abandoned. I glimpsed its copper domed central cupola and the scaffolding that is still in place around its walls. Hoogstraten- who is still alive- is very rich, has a criminal record going back to his teens, was a "friend" of Robert Mugabe and seems to have gone out of his way to create a legend of extreme unpleasantness. Exactly what goes on at Hamilton Palace these days is unknown- and anyone who tries to venture onto the estate is met with barbed wire, blocked paths, intimidating notices and menacing henchmen.
She's at the Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead- a storied place- in a ward named after one of the surgeons- Ross Tilley- who did pioneering reconstructive surgery on badly burned aircrew in the 1940s. There are pictures of WWII aircraft in the corridors- and we passed memorials to Tilley and his boss McIndoe and another to the Canadian fliers who passed through the facility. Our friend isn't particularly psychic but she was seeing orbs when she went down to surgery and caught a reflection in a mirror of someone walking behind her who wasn't actually present in her reality.
Our road to East Grinstead and back took us past Hamilton Palace- the folly de grandeur which Nicholas Van Hoogstraten began in the 1980s and then abandoned. I glimpsed its copper domed central cupola and the scaffolding that is still in place around its walls. Hoogstraten- who is still alive- is very rich, has a criminal record going back to his teens, was a "friend" of Robert Mugabe and seems to have gone out of his way to create a legend of extreme unpleasantness. Exactly what goes on at Hamilton Palace these days is unknown- and anyone who tries to venture onto the estate is met with barbed wire, blocked paths, intimidating notices and menacing henchmen.
