"Do we have a right to demand to see every prehistoric monument - just because it happens to be there?" A good question and I'm not going to start to answer it except to say that a person with the tradition of the builders - debased though it may be - is like the mechanic and should be encouraged, rather than excluded.

Also I've got three hop sprouts today - there was nothing there yesterday. Wild hop, I suspect, cleaned, packeted, and sold on eBay (for 99p).