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fitzcoraldo Oct 3, 2005 15:00:25
Replying to Paulus

Mr Lifter may be a tad eccentric but he is also the author of one of my favourite ever TMA post. I would not want to see him hounded out of TMA for posting a few dodgy sites.

(The gentleman he is talking about is Stan Beckensall)

"Yes, I travel past his house twice every week, on the bus; once outward and once inward. This is the first time that I've actually seen him out and about - it looked like he was strolling down to the pub. He's blind to anything that I turn up - blew a fuse when I described the carvings on a stone to him as 'elfenmarks'. (This is the one that was perfect as it had been buried and then had a few accidents with a tractor cutting bar)".

P Paulus
Paulus Oct 3, 2005 15:08:00
Replying to fitzcoraldo

OK Fitz.....sorry....don't wanna hurt y' feelings. I'll shuttup!

S StoneLifter
StoneLifter Oct 3, 2005 15:19:29
Replying to fitzcoraldo

Thanks a bunch - as well as these two cairns I also began excavation of a carved stone. It's on the SR as carved but it's not like anything elsewhere. Kind of wavy lines. I've no decent pictures of it and can't be bothered with the flak.

As far as I am aware I am the only stone professional posting here. I'm not talking about photographers of stones or theorisers of stones but simple worker of stone. A Stonemason eg. So my perspective of the stones is utterly different to everyone else's here. My perspective is pretty much that of the stones. When I find a roundhouse foundation, for instance, the work I see is of the teacher of the teacher of the teacher (and so on) of the person that taught me. I have most of the tricks and I am claiming to be the last of the line. I don't like being called amateur - take a real look at my work and then say that !

I'll disappear when the sites that I have discovered are being properly maintained.