Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Steve J]

Well the last day of shielding for our son, which is great news! His highlight for tomorrow will be able to go shopping again and regain some semblance of independence and normality. Quite weird yesterday going for a long walk with our daughter and seeing people socialising in groups again, which was nice, but sadly many exceeding the rule of 6 or two family groups and more importantly social distancing.

[Orcs]

They shited it, another 1000 camels I understand

That sounds rather painful

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Probably for ut camels 

That sounds rather painful

[Heedless Horseman]

Just keep it on 'Summer Time' for me! 

Hmph! What were the Henges 'Set ' at?     SOMEONE Had to know when to get up to 'Do the Biz' !... "EVERY Year, EVERY Bl***Y Year... TWICE!" 

[Ithoriel]

Last para in particular

Built-Up Area - Michael Flanders
In case it isn't obvious, this is about Stonehenge...

There's so much building go on everywhere else - on Salisbury Plain nothing, no building at all. There hasn't been any building there for about, ooh, four thousand years I suppose, really. Even then, I daresay, back in Neolithic times, there was some old Stone Age man standing in the observation platform watching what was going on. I daresay he didn't care for it much either...

Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Well wot's this then? You're not going to put up these great ugly stone blocks 'ere, are you? You can't do that! I've got Ancient Lights on my cave! Well, what is it anyway? A henge? Well, what's a henge? You may call it megalithic culture, I call it vandalism! I suppose you realise this is about the last nesting place for mammoths in the whole of Wessex?

What with them building up the long barrows and the round barrows and the bell-shaped barrows... They've started cutting out these white horses on the hillside now, have you seen that? I don't know - it's some sort of ad for mead, I think. They don't call 'em the Beaker Folk for nothing! And then you come dragging along these great prefabricated dominoes all over the roads! They're not meant for that sort of traffic. Every fine weekend it's the same story: ox-carts nose to tail all the way from 'ere to the coast.

I don't know where you get that stone from anyway - that's not local stone - I can tell. You get it from where? The Preseli Mountains? In Wales? I know it's in Wales - I've been abroad. Ooh, what'd'yer want to bring it all the way... You're bringing it the wrong way anyway: you want to bring it round the Chanctonbury Ring road, avoiding earthworks at Avebury.

What a horrible lookin' thing! That's all there is to it is then? Just two up and one across the top all the way round? Well if that's modern architecture, roll on the Ice Age I say! Well, you'll never get a roof on it for a start - never get twigs big enough! Yes, we 'ad a wood henge here once but it rotted. These big picture windows you've got all the way around the bottom: oh, they look very nice, yes, I grant you but what about the draughts? What about the lack of privacy? Who wants to live in a thing like that? Will you tell me when they start movin' in, won't yer? We get a pretty rowdy crowd in some of these new developments. I don't want to end up under the altar stone in a crouching position!

It's not going to be lived in? Well, that's something anyway. What is it then? It's a what? You're pulling my... a calendar? Well, it's a bit big for a calendar isn't it? I mean, you'd look a bit silly with that on your desk, wouldn't you? Well, how'd you work it then? You come up 'ere every morning before dawn - well better you than me, mate - and when the rising Sun throws a shadow of that big stone onto this flat one 'ere, then we shall know if it's Summer. Well, that will be very helpful, I must say. But is it Summer? You can't tell. Well, I'd better come and help you shovel the snow off it then...

[Techno II]

Hmph! What were the Henges 'Set ' at?   

Standard Druid Time.....And I agree....leave it on Summer Time.

(At least the chickens are happy now  ....THEY came out of complete lock-down, yesterday.)

Cheers - Phil.

[DecemDave]

Nuisance neighbours relocated by the council
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/19085305.new-study-reveals-stonehenge-may-relocated-wiltshire-wales/

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Where have I heard that speech before? 

[Techno II]

I'm not moving them back again.

Cheers - Phil. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'm not moving them back again.

Cheers - Phil. 

WHY NOT ?

[Techno II]

I've still got half of the b*ggers in one of the fields at the moment....I don't want anymore.

In truth....there's one bloomin' big rock......Though I don't think it's a bit of bluestone, from a mile up the road, where they took the Stonehenge 'ones'.....

The big rock is definitely out of place......It must weigh tens of tons...how on Earth it got there is anyone's guess.

Cheers - Phil. 

[Last Hussar]

Were you drunk?

[fsn]

The big rock is definitely out of place......It must weigh tens of tons...how on Earth it got there is anyone's guess.

[Ithoriel]

The big rock is definitely out of place......It must weigh tens of tons...how on Earth it got there is anyone's guess.

The usual answer is ... glaciers during the last Ice Age.

[Techno II]

There is a locality fairly close to us called 'Pont y glacier'.....I think that translates to 'Head of the glacier'.

Quite frankly, it's a very poor 'gouge' in the landscape.

Cheers - Phil.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Sledges.

[fsn]

The usual answer is ... glaciers during the last Ice Age.

No. Jedi.

That or wizards. If it's Wales, probably Wizards.

[Ithoriel]

If my university archaeology course taught me anything ( a debatable point) it is that if you've a site and no idea what went on there it's a ritual site, if you've an object with no obvious use it's a ritual object and if there's a rock in a place it shouldn't be "a glacier did it!"

[Last Hussar]

[Techno II]

 

Cheers - Phil.