Impassioned head gardener Joe Hawkins explaining the symbolism in the Shepherd's Monument. This guy knows his stuff. My mind is still spinning from all he had to say. I wrote a lot of it down, missed half, and didn't understand the rest. Apparently this monument is one of the world's top uncracked ciphertexts (google it). The Grail-esque mystery surrounding it could be what inspired a local nutjob to smash up one of Shugborough's more ordinary-looking urns, claiming, when the police came to take him away, that the urn was the key to the location of the Holy Grail, which he'd just written a book about and could he please have some publicity please. What a crackpot (heh).
The walled garden was lovely, and the lone gardener (Dan) did amazing things with zero budget and tools from the 1800s. Literally. He can't even use plastic netting, cos it isn't authentic, so they make these crazy anti-bird structures out of string. Prettier than netting, though...
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