![\"\"](\"http:\/\/hastingsrockandfell.co.uk\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MadJack-1-224x300.jpg\" "\\"Sugar")
<\/a>From the pub it was no distance to THE SUGAR LOAF (in bygone days sugar was sold in a solid cone shaped mass thus the conical shape of the tower thus its name,). Apparently Jack Fuller had the sugar loaf built swiftly because of a wager he made i.e. that he could see the spire of Dallington church from his window. When he realised he couldn\u2019t the sugar loaf was built to resemble the church spire. Dick was hoping to scramble up the tower but was told he couldn\u2019t. Apparently he and Kevin misbehaved last time they were there. We did have a photo shoot before we ambled down through more beautiful countryside towards the ROTUNDA TEMPLE. Sadly again we could only appreciate the temple from a distance, as it was on private land. 25ft high Grecian style. There are only guesses as to the \u2018use\u2019of the building. I like the idea that Jack Fuller and his \u2018lady\u2019 friends had many a frenzied orgy there \u2013 although there are other tales of wild gambling sessions \u2013 who knows.<\/p>\nAfter the Temple it was on to THE TOWER 35ft high with big stone windows, Jane and Ruth ascended a very dodgy spiral staircase on the trail of the next geo-cache but in fact Mike found it, his first one ever. Dick spotted a dead sheep in the scrubby wood outside, and later Rod saw a buzzard which he tried to direct towards the dead sheep.<\/p>\n
Brightling churchyard was the site of another geo-cache and also the site of Jack Fuller\u2019s burial place , a most splendid PYRAMID which Fuller had built 24 years before he died. Various outrageous stories surround both the building and the burial, none of which can honestly be substantiated. A great burial place then and a folly with a purpose, as was the OBSERVATORY which he had built because he was hugely interested in astronomy. We only observed the Observatory from a distance right at the end of the walk.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/hastingsrockandfell.co.uk\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MadJack-2-224x300.jpg\" "\\"Summer")
<\/a>The last architectural creation (and the most beautiful), we passed was the SUMMER HOUSE, just a wonderful ornamental arch, very simple yet so romantic. Dick posed for a photo shoot. May I say that he really didn\u2019t look as if he was fading away, although he had previously confessed to me anxieties re his health, it seems he is fast losing weight, his trousers are falling down and his belt no longer holds them up properly and he gave the impression he\u2019s recently been deprived of cake due to the disrepair of Ruth\u2019s cooker, If any one has any spare cake I\u2019m sure it will be appreciated by Dick.<\/p>\n