Two very full days
Oct. 9th, 2006 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andygatesIt was fantastic to see stripey_mouse and some more of the Bristol crowd again at the weekend, particularly when wrapped in quite that much dodgy cider and very loud music. The Hatchet was true to form and gave us a floorshow (I swear, if Mattel produced Crackwhore Barbie, that girl would be the basis), a fight ("Are you lookin' at my Crackwhore Barbie?"), some bellowed Sisters lyrics and a very, very sore neck.
Fade through a 3am finish and a 7am start, waking wedged inbetween a bike and a board. Mmm, the romance of life on the road.
On to Newport to have a go at track racing.
stripey_mouse and some more of the Bristol crowd again at the weekend, particularly when wrapped in quite that much dodgy cider and very loud music. The Hatchet was true to form and gave us a floorshow (I swear, if Mattel produced Crackwhore Barbie, that girl would be the basis), a fight ("Are you lookin' at my Crackwhore Barbie?"), some bellowed Sisters lyrics and a very, very sore neck. Fade through a 3am finish and a 7am start, waking wedged inbetween a bike and a board. Mmm, the romance of life on the road.
On to Newport to have a go at track racing.
Steeply banked wooden velodrome, but this is something that's Just Plain Cool and which I've got on my winter list, so the hangover has to get stowed in a bag somewhere. Thank the gods I know fixie already... and that we had a really superb coach. Still, I had to sit out a round while the green evil sloshed and churned, so I had a chance to get some photos and a little movie. And man, that was a hell of a lot of fun! (ravenbait
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Date: 2006-10-10 08:07 am (UTC)(Crackwhore Barbi - very appropriate!!!!!)
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Date: 2006-10-10 08:39 am (UTC)You don't make bread *and* propitiate the baking gods, you feed the baking gods honey or your bread doesn't rise. So to speak.
And then with Stonehenge there's that whole trilithon phase on top of all that, which still strikes me as a radical repurposing to change the site from an inclusive to an exclusive one. Open low stones contain people - the same way a car park contains chavs having a burnout - the relatively small, walled structure of the trilithons divides the inner people from outer people and sets up all sorts of other dynamics (I'd suggest a power-elite but that's me projecting).
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Date: 2006-10-10 09:37 am (UTC)I'm convinced.
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Date: 2006-10-10 09:40 am (UTC)We've got Stonehenge as MySpace. Heh.
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Date: 2006-10-10 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-10 01:03 pm (UTC)Okay, I got better legs than Leon ;)
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Date: 2006-10-10 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-10 01:43 pm (UTC)It's very close to Stone Henge, and they have got pillars representing where the wooden posts would have been.
I think they have a done lots of modeling, and decided that it couldnt have had a roof.
There are excavations going on there at the moment. I think they may have found another one,really close to Stone Henge, which they think was The henge to go visit before they made a posh stone one.
About the geophys....yes, post holes do show up, but not when you have a couple of meters worth of prehistoric hill slope on top of it...which is what has happened around Wood Henge....
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Date: 2006-10-10 02:35 pm (UTC)