Long Meg and her daughters

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Re: Long Meg and her daughters

Post by Callan » Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:13 pm

FBM wrote:Yeah, whose bright idea was it to put a walking path right through the thing?
That's nothing!

Down the road a bit from me lies one of Britain's largest and most significant stone circles.

Bastards put a village in it! :lay:

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Re: Long Meg and her daughters

Post by FBM » Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:02 pm

Callan wrote:
FBM wrote:Yeah, whose bright idea was it to put a walking path right through the thing?
That's nothing!

Down the road a bit from me lies one of Britain's largest and most significant stone circles.

Bastards put a village in it! :lay:

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Wtf kinda boneheads??????? :tearhair:
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Re: Long Meg and her daughters

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:07 pm

Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions? :shock:
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Post by Rum » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:17 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions? :shock:
Don't ask me. I am just passing on the story. However now you mention it, it is rather like sitting on the proverbial branch and sawing on the tree trunk side..

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Post by Audley Strange » Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:35 pm

I've been reading a bit about the stone circles and stuff for something I'm writing about the early pre-christian religions in the U.K. There are lots of excellent eerie folk tales.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:08 pm

Rum wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions? :shock:
Don't ask me. I am just passing on the story. However now you mention it, it is rather like sitting on the proverbial branch and sawing on the tree trunk side..
I was hoping for video, and interviews with the survivor, if there was one.
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:12 pm

Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Rum wrote:
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:
Rum wrote:The story goes that one bright sunny morning he sent a crew of workmen out with a keg of black powder to do exactly that. They put a pile under each stone and then a trail to the middle from each one so they could light it from one spot. As they were about to set it off on this clear bright morning a huge thunder cloud appeared and lightning crashed around them and the rain stopped any chance of lighting the powder. The men are said to have run off, terrified.
They were planning to stand in the MIDDLE of a bunch of explosions? :shock:
Don't ask me. I am just passing on the story. However now you mention it, it is rather like sitting on the proverbial branch and sawing on the tree trunk side..
I was hoping for video, and interviews with the survivor, if there was one.
Pen hasn't been on for ages. :ask:

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Re: Long Meg and her daughters

Post by Thinking Aloud » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:15 pm

Also visited Avebury years ago...

Of course, I'm spoiled these days, and go stone-circling daily.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:17 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:Pen hasn't been on for ages. :ask:
"Survivor" status is always "for the time."
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:19 pm

I'm partial to a game of quoits, myself...

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Post by Svartalf » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:27 pm

I thought Long Meg and her daughters were a series of mounds and that the big circle was Castlerigg? have I been misled for 25 years?
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Post by Thinking Aloud » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:55 pm

Svartalf wrote:I thought Long Meg and her daughters were a series of mounds and that the big circle was Castlerigg? have I been misled for 25 years?
Castlerigg is another circle in the Lake District (other side of the M6).

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:57 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm partial to a game of quoits, myself...

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Took the kids to one of these in Cornwall last summer, and Offspring #1, on a-spying it through the cloud on the moor, yelled, "A dolmen! A real live dolmen!!" This is what happens when you let them read too much Asterix and Obelix.

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Re: Long Meg and her daughters

Post by Clinton Huxley » Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:00 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:I'm partial to a game of quoits, myself...

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Took the kids to one of these in Cornwall last summer, and Offspring #1, on a-spying it through the cloud on the moor, yelled, "A dolmen! A real live dolmen!!" This is what happens when you let them read too much Asterix and Obelix.
My French teacher at High School used to sometimes read an Asterix book to the class (in French, obviously). It was the only thing in 4 years of school French lessons that didn't infuriate me.
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Re: Long Meg and her daughters

Post by Thinking Aloud » Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:08 pm

Callan wrote:
FBM wrote:Yeah, whose bright idea was it to put a walking path right through the thing?
That's nothing!

Down the road a bit from me lies one of Britain's largest and most significant stone circles.

Bastards put a village in it! :lay:

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Which reminds me that when I was there, there were some decidedly aged-hippy types leaning themselves hard against the stones and looking orgasmic.

Which reminds me of the lady I once saw rubbing her hands together inside a large amethyst geode to soak up the crystal energy at a rock and gem show.

Which reminds me of the couple Bella and I saw at the stone circle here one time: they walked clockwise around the circle then went to the middle. As they walked her phone rang - she answered quickly, "I can't talk right now. I'll call you back." Then asked her partner if he could feel anything, as he stood hunched over in the middle of the circle...

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