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Grasping at straws, it seems to me……… not so much the rock island thing – it’s tough out on your own – but doing this kind of hi-viz career boosting stunt for TV.
Give me Ray Mears any wilderness night.
Quite, another tip for survival…don’t spend 60 days on your own on an island unless there’s a REALLY GOOD reason!!
Well, I think the stone circle is great whatever you think about Ed, whoever he is. I don’t know if Ed is sound on dogs, but he’s certainly sound on stone circles, so he’s at least halfway to the kingdom of heaven (now under my management).
A stone circle is all very well on a desert island but on the rainy isle of Blighty perhaps they could stretch to a gazebo lined with memorial benches.
Absolutely not. Stone circle or nothing. Bring your own shooting stick.
Oh I’m entirely up for a stone circle, Charles. We have a recently built one just up the road. I even helped pull one of the stones up the hill. The respect I have for the builders of the originals as a result is boundless!
Jenny
I doff my seasonal headgear (Russian-style with furry earflaps) to you, Jenny! I am ashamed to say that I have never shouldered a sarsen in the cause.
I don’t necesarily recommend it, Charles. On a rest between ‘pulls’ I lay on my back half way up the hill wondering why I had thought this would be a good idea. Keith (who, on account of an old injury had been given the camera instead of a rope) stood over me and with mild concern and great politeness enquired ‘Have you died?’ And that was only a fairly little stone compared to many I have seen and there were at leat 100 of us!
It sounds like a wonderful occasion, Jenny. Would that I had been there — as an observer.
A funeral director shouldn’t go round asking people if they are dead. He should know!
As you probably know Charles, Cothiemuir Hill natural burial ground in Aberdeenshire includes a neolithic stone circle at the summit of the hill – the stones there are simply beautiful and the recumbent stone is unbelievably huge and whale like.
Coincidentally, I have recently proposed an earthwork circle at a future natural burial ground as a place to gather and to add features to a relatively flat piece of land. My inspiration came from Herbert Bayer [http://tclf.org/pioneer/herbert-bayer/biography-herbert-bayer] and Richard Long [http://www.richardlong.org/].
Brilliant, James. Thanks!
I’ll add it to our ‘wish list’!
Great links, James. Thank you.