carol27
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Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 03, 2015, 20:21
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I really do.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 03, 2015, 20:26
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Thanks for the link tjj. The comment setting out the email from the senior heritage worker sums the problem up exactly.
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tiompan
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Edited Mar 03, 2015, 20:35
Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 03, 2015, 20:33
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Did you mean imposterous or are you looking for a toilet ?
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carol27
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Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 03, 2015, 20:39
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It's Count Arthur's Forgotten Egypt.
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tjj
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Edited Mar 03, 2015, 21:08
Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 03, 2015, 20:40
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tiompan wrote: Did you mean imposterous or are you looking for a toilet ?
Carol may mean King Arthur is taking the piss ... I've also seen him quite pissed a few times.
"King Arthur, whose followers believe he is the reincarnation of the mythical once-and-future king of Britain ..."
Heritage Journal are way too polite.
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carol27
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Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 03, 2015, 21:59
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Thankyou tjj, you're very kind. I was actually replying to tiompan' s post referencing Count Arthur Strong, a comedy character created by Steve Delaney, who in the early days prior to his current series on BBC 2, used to deliver a shambolic lecture on Forgotten Egypt whilst getting progressively more inebriated! "Pissposterous" and "I really do" being two of his catchphrases. Oh dear, how did I get onto this? Nothing to do with neolithic, but actually hilarious if you get chance to see it. Well I think so at least.
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nigelswift
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Edited Mar 04, 2015, 08:04
Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 04, 2015, 08:04
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This account by a senior officer really needs airing far and wide.
"I would like to add my thoughts to the debate about open access to the Stones at Solstice.I would prefer to be anonymous for professional reasons.
I have attended several of the summer Solstice events in a professional capacity as a senior officer in one of the statutory emergency services. I have witnessed first hand the heartbreak that the staff feel when they reclaim the area within the circle the morning after. I have seen guardians in tears at the insults wrought to the monument, the appalling stench, the rubbish, the vandalism, beer cans wedged into cracks in the stones, urine, vomit and faeces everywhere.
The majority seems to have little care for an ancient monument, and utterly disrespect it.
One member of staff (NT or EH, can’t remember), whilst starting to collect the detritus, in tears, muttered “364 days a year we protect and care for this place, 364 days a year, and then this happens in one night”. But they always manage to clear the rubbish up and get the site open again. The smell lingers, though, for days."
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Evergreen Dazed
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Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 04, 2015, 11:18
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tiompan wrote: Always thought he was worth a laugh but he's no Count Arthur .
More Bob Servant I reckon.
(I need to visit Broughty Ferry now, i'm addicted to that prog!)
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Evergreen Dazed
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Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 04, 2015, 11:29
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carol27 wrote: Thankyou tjj, you're very kind. I was actually replying to tiompan' s post referencing Count Arthur Strong, a comedy character created by Steve Delaney, who in the early days prior to his current series on BBC 2, used to deliver a shambolic lecture on Forgotten Egypt whilst getting progressively more inebriated! "Pissposterous" and "I really do" being two of his catchphrases. Oh dear, how did I get onto this? Nothing to do with neolithic, but actually hilarious if you get chance to see it. Well I think so at least.
Steve Delaney is great.
Faber & Faber & Faber.
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Mustard
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Re: King Arthur responds
Mar 04, 2015, 11:48
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thesweetcheat wrote: King Arthur [Pendragon] said the likes of Heritage Journal were simply stirring up the issue of damage because they wanted the stones closed off again.
"Heritage Journal have been doing that since they were formed in the first place," he said. "Basically they're just a number of archaeologists who don't want 'the great unwashed', as they see it, anywhere near Stonehenge."
"Obviously we abhor the vandalism. We always keep an eye out for these sorts of things. From my point of view, as a druid and a pagan priest, it's not on," he added.
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Archaeologists-don-t-want-great-unwashed/story-26113310-detail/story.html
Not that I have much time for the mystic monarch, but he does have a point. Polarised on both sides, in my experience - total denial of problems from the solstice brigade, and total disdain for the solstice brigade from certain quarters. Be nice to see some productive dialogue instead of entrenched camps hurling stones at one another.
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