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Littlestone Feb 8, 2011 10:22:51
Replying to moss

I’m now convinced that English Heritage has a Whacky Ideas Department. First a time-capsule for Silbury, a kiddies’ book on Stonehenge full of errors, and now an inflatable trilithon coming your way soon! Gawd... I have an image of the local jobos somewhere pulling the plug on said inflatable and the thing taking off over the town making a rude sound.

See one of them’s going to Milton Keynes though; if the weather’s fine maybe they could site it in the field along with the concrete cows and inflate it with concrete methane. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that – someone in EH might take it seriously ;-)

T tiompan
tiompan Feb 8, 2011 10:28:35
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
I’m now convinced that English Heritage has a Whacky Ideas Department. First a time-capsule for Silbury, a kiddies’ book on Stonehenge full of errors, and now an inflatable trilithon coming your way soon! Gawd... I have an image of the local jobos somewhere pulling the plug on said inflatable and the thing taking off over the town making a rude sound.

See one of them’s going to Milton Keynes though; if the weather’s fine maybe they could site it in the field along with the concrete cows and inflate it with concrete methane. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that – someone in EH might take it seriously ;-)

Not unlikely , Milton Keynes has quite a "pagan heritage " , a Midsummer Boulevard which is almost aligned on the solstice and the "tree cathedral ".

N nigelswift
nigelswift Feb 8, 2011 10:38:17
Replying to Littlestone

Wish they'd spent the money on an inflatable obelisk and erected it once a year at Avebury. That would have been cool.

The nearest exhibition to me is quite a long way and my battery is playing up so I might have to go by car.

T tjj
tjj Feb 8, 2011 14:07:33
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
I’m now convinced that English Heritage has a Whacky Ideas Department. First a time-capsule for Silbury, a kiddies’ book on Stonehenge full of errors, and now an inflatable trilithon coming your way soon! Gawd... I have an image of the local jobos somewhere pulling the plug on said inflatable and the thing taking off over the town making a rude sound.

See one of them’s going to Milton Keynes though; if the weather’s fine maybe they could site it in the field along with the concrete cows and inflate it with concrete methane. Maybe I shouldn’t have said that – someone in EH might take it seriously ;-)

Looking at the venues of the road show I note that some of them are places that may have large populations of families - would it be possible that the Stonehenge Road Show is being undertaken in the spirit of education and engaging the imagination of children.