Whenever some pisspuffin starts up with nonsense about the irrelevance of studying standing stones, I just think about the desire paths carved into a hundred moors to reach them. No-one walks miles in the English rain for an irrelevance pal. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
@justrena There’s something really special about the ability to communicate something complex and nuanced in straightforward language that you get with the best children’s authors. Alan Garner springs immediately to mind
@IANdrewDiceClay I saw him wrestle live on one of the UK tours round about this point in time and it genuinely gave me anxiety just watching him try to move about the ring. How he was still going given the physical state he was in is beyond me
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@ZakAvery Anything is better than nothing. Whenever I’m feeling crap and slow at running I try and remind myself I’m quicker than all the people who stayed at home
If England belongs to the stones, it's as a thousand kingdoms each with its monarch of the fields, its hilltop ruler. In this empire, the crown isn't worn by gaudy Stonehenge, but shared across the whole land. It is all the stronger for it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
@LadyLiminal1 @Jim_Leary I’m there at the moment. Found the first time I walked from Stenness up to Brodgar and went round the Ness really overwhelming. Whatever the Neolithic equivalent of Jerusalem syndrome is. Then got the merry dancers last night