I'm here because I love the stones and the sites. They are a direct link back into unrecorded history and give me a connection with our ancestors and landscape that I can't get through other means. The stones force me to go to places I would not otherwise venture. The fact that they also (mostly) look fantastic as sculptural forms in the landscape gives me a little tingly thrill!

I have no interest in leylines, 'spirituality' or other new age mumbo jumbo except as a curiosity - like Rhiannon's folklore links - which tell us something about the impact of the monuments on the people using and living with them (and the inherent gullibility of the human mind!) My colours are nailed firmly on the mast of rationality, logic, reason and science.

TMA grows and changes, updates with whizzy new technology, has firm guidelines but if you play by the rules allows new ideas to come out. It's expanded into Europe in a way which no other website can touch - it's accurate and informative for a start! (I was so happy when the Eds asked to contribute our European stuff - thanks Eds, whoever the hell you are!)

I've inhabited this forum for so many years because - with one or two notable exceptions - I've liked everyone I've ever met on here. Christonabike, I even married one of 'em!

J
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