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Pilgrim P
Pilgrim Jul 24, 2008 08:41:13
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
Re: the recent mindless lighting of a fire at Castlerigg - http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal The ongoing problem of tat left at West Kennet Long Barrow, the Swallowhead Spring etc. And this - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/69284.jpg a chilling photograph of one of several defaced stones in the Avenue at Avebury taken twelve years ago. The sackcloth is not part of the vandalism, it was used by conservators from Bristol University to cover the stones while the graffiti was removed.

Sad sarsen soldiers marching against a tide of stupidity...

Hi Littlestone,

Idiots.

We were up at Wayland's at the weekend (Saturday evening), and someone had chalked 'new age' symbolism over the portal stones and inside the chamber, along with the word 'TEST'. Having tried to get it off - we made a good stab at it, for what it's worth - it has hardened my attitude towards these pathetic, selfish, self-serving, arrogant tossers who seems to think that they have the right to plaster their pathetic individual existences across places of national import. Down here on Dartmoor, this mindless fraction seem to think that kists are good fireplaces, FFS.

If I see it, it's going.

Peace

Pilgrim

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L Littlestone
Littlestone Jul 24, 2008 19:15:39
Replying to Pilgrim

...it has hardened my attitude towards these pathetic, selfish, self-serving, arrogant tossers who seems to think that they have the right to plaster their pathetic individual existences across places of national import.
Aye, Pilgrim, I don't know what the answer is to those who think, 'they have the right to plaster their pathetic individual existences across places of national import.' Noticed, though, in the park yesterday a group of young mothers with toddlers who were allowing their little darlings to litter the place to said little darlings hearts' content. Recently, meeting a friend at Liverpool Street Station in London, I noticed the BigMac boxes and other garbage tossed all around the lovely bronze statue of the children saved from Nazi Germany who found refuge in this country.

Makes you want to scream - occasionally I do, but who's listening?