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smallblueplanet Nov 28, 2005 15:43:34
Replying to nigelswift

I have reread your posts (and even posted part of one) on Heritage Action's website - you have clearly misunderstood the technical reports and then blatently misinterpreted parts of them too.

But I particularly like your opinion on the archaeological community 'if tunnelling is proven by engineers to be the best way to tackle the problem then it would accept this solution, however they expressed their concerns about this approach. <b>"If career-boosting research is the 'treasure' to be won by selecting the most damaging solution, then our generation would be no better than the treasure-seeking vandals of old whose tunnels caused the problem,"</b> it said.

L Littlestone
Littlestone Nov 28, 2005 17:11:19
Replying to smallblueplanet

>...you have clearly misunderstood the technical reports and then blatently misinterpreted parts of them too.<

Well, you know, I misunderstand and misinterpret things all the time, and when it's pointed out to me I say 'bugger' to myself and I try again to get it right. I don't know if Nigel has misunderstood and misinterpreted the technical reports but I do know that he has campaigned fearlessly for the right solution for Silbury. So has PeteG (though he and Nigel might not agree on what the best solution is :-) and so have many other people on TMA and elsewhere; isn't that what it's all about? Working together to find the right solution?


I swept the last of the maple leaves up from the lawn today A robin came down and perched on an old conifer stump just a foot away, head cocked and completely fearless. I love this time of year, there's a growing stillness about it. Beautiful copper-red sunset as well, and the smell of someone's fire drifting over the Green.

Life's too short for squabbling - you realize that as the years left in the hourglass grow increasingly few...

Love and peace.

Littlestone