moss
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Edited Mar 04, 2013, 09:09
Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 04, 2013, 09:08
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As if it needs more!! but just found this in Saturday's Guardian...
"Wiltshire's monuments, mounds and new-age eccentrics
Home to Avebury, Silbury Hill, stone circles, druids and green beer … Wiltshire is a county full of beautiful contradictions"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/mar/04/wiltshire-monuments-mounds-new-age
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 05, 2013, 21:09
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"Avebury itself looks less like Islam's holy city and more like the backdrop to a hauntology-based early 1970s episode of Dr Who."
Right on! If I'd never been, that would get me there.
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harestonesdown
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Re: Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 05, 2013, 21:17
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thesweetcheat wrote: "Avebury itself looks less like Islam's holy city and more like the backdrop to a hauntology-based early 1970s episode of Dr Who."
Right on! If I'd never been, that would get me there.
Please don't use the village car park, though you can park across the way for a tenner. :)
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VBB
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Re: Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 05, 2013, 22:50
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harestonesdown wrote: Please don't use the village car park, though you can park across the way for a tenner. :)
It's all coming back to me now, I remember you saying those exact words after I picked you up from a bus stop!
Bloomin' cheek!
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tjj
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Re: "The Buried Circle"
Mar 05, 2013, 22:50
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Don't want to start a separate thread for this so hope no-one minds if I slip this in here:
Has anyone read a novel by Jenni Mills called "The Buried Circle" http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/book_reviews_view.aspx?book_review_id=45
I came across this book when a friend borrowed it from the library recently - blurb says "In 1938 the archaeologist Alexander Keiller, a millionaire playboy with a passion for ritual magic, plans to reconstruct the 5,000 year old stone circle at Avebury ..."
So a mixture of fact and fiction (possibly!) - was just wondering if someone has read it and if so, what they thought of it.
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harestonesdown
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Re: Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 05, 2013, 23:20
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VBB wrote: harestonesdown wrote: Please don't use the village car park, though you can park across the way for a tenner. :)
It's all coming back to me now, I remember you saying those exact words after I picked you up from a bus stop!
Bloomin' cheek!
That was you ?
I thought it was just a kindly gent helping a stranded hitchhiker !
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VBB
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Re: Jerusalem
Mar 05, 2013, 23:25
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I suggest you read Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem (Nick Hern Books, London, 2009). He lived in Pewsey and wrote a brilliant play based on the people and places around him. He really knew Wiltshire, its people, its history, and loved its traditions.
Apologies for takeover!
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VBB
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Re: Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 05, 2013, 23:29
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harestonesdown wrote: VBB wrote: harestonesdown wrote: Please don't use the village car park, though you can park across the way for a tenner. :)
It's all coming back to me now, I remember you saying those exact words after I picked you up from a bus stop!
Bloomin' cheek!
That was you ?
I thought it was just a kindly gent helping a stranded hitchhiker !
"Kindly gent" that's me (but strangely doesn't recognize himself from the description, fearing the voices will return urging him to drive through the night along the Bath Road, he pauses, no, he waits, no - oh bollocks, who got red carded - Naani? That a PITTA!
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harestonesdown
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Re: Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 05, 2013, 23:58
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VBB wrote: harestonesdown wrote: VBB wrote: harestonesdown wrote: Please don't use the village car park, though you can park across the way for a tenner. :)
It's all coming back to me now, I remember you saying those exact words after I picked you up from a bus stop!
Bloomin' cheek!
That was you ?
I thought it was just a kindly gent helping a stranded hitchhiker !
"Kindly gent" that's me (but strangely doesn't recognize himself from the description, fearing the voices will return urging him to drive through the night along the Bath Road, he pauses, no, he waits, no - oh bollocks, who got red carded - Naani? That a PITTA!
Calne down !
Btw, do i know you ?
*Closes gate and heads for WKLB*
:)
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moss
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Re: Wiltshire Tourism
Mar 06, 2013, 08:19
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thesweetcheat wrote: "Avebury itself looks less like Islam's holy city and more like the backdrop to a hauntology-based early 1970s episode of Dr Who."
Right on! If I'd never been, that would get me there.
"Beneath a vast psychedelic folk art ceiling – "the Sistine chapel of Wiltshire" – a detailed map documents all the crop circles sighted in the area".
Describing the Barge Inn ;) I find the 'Sistine Painting' horrible but still, given the argument about modern stone circles and iron stapled rocks, has anyone seen the modern 'rock art' gate post dated 1990 by the Alton Barnes church, ( might be the Alton Priors one always get them muddled).
As for taking this thread further, don't really mind; fascinating news this morning about fossilised remains of a giant camel in Canada three million
years ago, or what about 50 acres of solar panels in Suffolk, archaeologists are demanding to survey the area before it goes up, sheep will graze beneath the panels apparently....
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