Somewhere under one of the myriad gorse bushes on Southwold Common, there could be literary buried treasure - or it could just be a confused memory of a summer afternoon 70 years ago.
George Orwell, together with his lifelong friend Dennis Collings, according to an elderly local resident, buried something in a mound on the Suffolk common, one day in 1932. Unknown to the two men, they were observed by two 10-year-old boys. They watched as the men, whom they first took for archaeologists conducting an excavation, buried several objects, including a first world war helmet. Et moi qui croyait qu'il n'y avait plus que les gamins qui enterraient des boîtes de iscuits remplis de "trésors" à découvrir en l'an 3500 (au moins). J'ai donc encore le droit de le faire. Quelqu'un sait comment on fait pour enterrer un globe et le rendre célèbre chez ses arrières-arrières-arrières-...-arrières-petits-chiards ?
(Via Confessions of an Idiosynratic Mind)