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Silbury Hill

Silbury updates

Ay up Pilgrim lad, yer being a bit generous there with a 4/10 mark ;-)

Thing that really got me was English Heritage's, Can I volunteer with the Silbury Hill Conservation Project?.* Chuckle and quote... "We are currently recruiting part-time volunteers to work in our Visitor Information Point for July and August, helping our interpretation staff to communicate with the public about Silbury Hill and the project."

Wot's an 'interpretation staff' when it's at home? And if English Heritage want to 'communicate with the public' wouldn't it be better to get their Silbury updates and Ask the Experts page up to speed instead of requiring people to pay and park at Avebury, walk fifteen minutes along muddy pathways to their 'information points', or wait some six weeks for answers to their questions on their Ask the Experts page?

Do get a grip on reality English Heritage... and as for yet another of your cack-handed ideas about having, "...volunteers positioned around the area to record specialists in ancient music performing on replica prehistoric instruments at the top of the Hill." Gordon Bennett! What realm of the time continuum are you actually inhabiting at present?

* http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/q3.pdf

Littlestone wrote:
Do get a grip on reality English Heritage... and as for yet another of your cack-handed ideas about having, "...volunteers positioned around the area to record specialists in ancient music performing on replica prehistoric instruments at the top of the Hill." Gordon Bennett! What realm of the time continuum are you actually inhabiting at present?
I agree with you, Littlestone. As for the above plan; is this some kind of culmanative PR exercise intended to announce the completion of "our revamp" of Silbury? Aren't we - the great unwashed GP - supposed to keep our collective Size 12's off the Hill? This sort of thing hasn't really done much for The Long Man of Wilmington recently, has it? Perhaps we could Ask The Experts just what is their thinking behind this (un)sound experience? It seems like Silbury Hill is turning into an "By English Heritage Invitation Only"destination: First it was archaeo's, then the Druids, then the local School, the TC, and now some Musical Types. Odd. Very Odd.

Peace

Pilgrim

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Littlestone wrote:
"We are currently recruiting part-time volunteers to work in our Visitor Information Point for July and August, helping our interpretation staff to communicate with the public about Silbury Hill and the project."
Great. Sounds like a nice little summer jobby for you and Nigel - it would get you out of the house anyway. And you might pick up some PR skills along the way.